Historical

=**Historical Fiction**=

Your First name and grade.
 * Title and Author**
 * What is the book about? Why is it a great read? What did you like about it?**

Example: __Running out of Time__ by Margaret Peterson Haddix Jesse is just an average 13 year old girl living in 1840 with her happy family when tragedy strikes and an epidemic hurts not only her family but the entire town. As people lay sick and dying what will Jesse do when she discovers that there is hope? Can she accept that it ISN'T 1840, but 1995 and she is living in a human zoo, a zoo where the zookeepers will do nothing to help! What will Jesse do? Will she find help in the new and scarry world? This book is fast paced and exciting read that I loved because of the creative and interesting plot and well written book. If you like this you will like all of Haddix's books! by Jane Doe, grade 6

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. 1998. __Laura and Nellie__. This is the fifth book of The little House Chaper books. This book is about the quarrels of Laura Ingalls and Nellie Olesons. Nellie is a town girl and Laura is a county girl. Readers will love Laura and dislike Nellie, but really enjoy this book.For young readers. by Ally, grade 2

__Riding the Flume__, by Patrica Curtis Pfitsh In the summer of 1894 a giant aequoia tree is found, and it may be the oldest and largest thing on Earth. But a wood cutting company in California are about to cut it down. A 15yr old girl named Francie knows she must save the tree. It was her dead sister's tree and is the only thing left of it. But the only way to save the tree is to ride a dangerous water logging flume to St. Joseph. Can Francie get there in time to save the tree, and can she survive the flume ride? by Roxanne Welter, grade 6

__//**Shadows On the Sea-**//__ By:Joan Hiatt Harlow The U.S is at war with Germany in this book. Jill Winters a 14 year old girl has a mother who is travleing, to Newfoundland. She has to go through th North Atlantic where th German submarines are! Jills father is a famous musician he is on tour. So Jill has to stay with her Nana in Winter Haven.Everyone has something to hide even Nana!!! Jill is going to get to the bottom of these mysteries, with the help of some new friends!!! By: Carlee, grade 6

Woodruff, Elviria. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2003. __The Ravenmaster's Secret__ Ravenmaster's Secret is about a boy who becomes best friends with a treasonous prisoner. When he finds out that she's to