Wanda Dionne, Reyna's Reward (1996), a romance about a young woman raised in a Spanish convent who is captured by pirates while on her way to become a mail-order bride in Louisiana. Wim Coleman, Anna's World (2009), about a fourteen-year-old girl sent to live with a group of Shakers in the 1840s. NA.Įlisa Carbone, Stealing Freedom (1998), about a girl who uses the Underground Railroad to escape from slavery in the 1850s. Blos, A Gathering of Days (1979), a novel written in the form of the diary of a thirteen-year-old New Hampshire girl in the 1830s who, after her mother's death, has to rely on a neighbor woman to teach her housekeeping skills. Katherine Ayres, Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad (1998), about a sixteen-year-old boy from a family involved with the Underground Railroad who travels South to rescue two slaves while he begins his new job as a peddler. Katherine Ayres, North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad (1998), about a sixteen-year-old girl who helps a group of women and children escape from slavery.
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SOA = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction IBBY = International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book Their struggles to achieve dignity and equality have inspired powerful fiction.ĪLANCB = American Library Association Notable Children's BookīBYA = An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" pick Constitution was amended to make black Americans citizens with the same rights as white Americans, they were not treated as such. Lee surrendered to the Union General Ulysses S. The war raged for four years, longer than either side expected, until in 1865 the Confederate General Robert E. The Civil War erupted in 1861 when white Southerners felt their way of life was threatened by pressure from the North to abolish slavery. Many heroic Americans, both black and white, helped people escape slavery through the "Underground Railway," a network of guides and friendly people's houses where escaping slaves could eat and sleep in secret while traveling to freedom in Canada. Young adult novels set in the American Old West appear on a separate page.įrom before 1800 until the Civil War, black Americans were enslaved in the South. Several novels about pirates, the religious community of Shakers, workers in Northern textile mills, and rural Northerners are included in the listings on this page. Not all novels set in nineteenth-century America are about slavery and its aftermath, but this subject is powerfully dramatic, and most are. Young Adult Historical Novels: Nineteenth Century North America
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