Last week Jane wrote about some of the considerations behind choosing the Dorothy Canfield Fisher list, including finding a balance of different types of books. The same is true for our materials review. When Jane read the Top 10 Historical Fiction Titles post on Nerdy Book Club recently, it reminded her of how many great historical fiction titles are not going to fit into our review session. To remedy that, here is a round up of Historical Fiction links:
- Top 10 Pulse Pounding, Nail Biting Historical Fiction Titles from the Nerdy Book Club blog
- Epic Reads' YA Historical Fiction List - arranged as a timeline (which makes sense when you think about)
- A list of lists: librarybooklists.org compiles libraries' book lists for different topics. Here is their list of lists for YA Historical Fiction and here is one for Children's Historical Fiction.
- The final installment of Dorothy's List for this year features Prisoner 88, Leah Pileggi's account of a ten year-old prisoner in the Idaho territory in 1885. Historical fiction on the 2015/2016 DCF list:
- The Badger Knight
- Running Out of Night
- Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher
- Madman of Piney Woods.
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan on the Classroom Bookshelf Blog - A combination of fairy tale and history tells stories of children in different eras connected by music. A popular book that's on the watch list for possible awards in 2015. Full disclosure: Helen was assigned to read this book for the Materials Review and is just not getting through it. You should probably read this other blogger's post instead of waiting for it to be covered Friday.
- Remember in 2013 when Natalie Kinsey Warnock came to the store to talk about historical fiction? (If you don't, it was great and here's a write up). CLiF recently posted an article about her Storykeepers project that you can read here.
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