Best Historical Stand Alone Books For Kids Aged 10-14

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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,415 ratings
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by: Avi
3.86 avg rating — 87,618 ratings
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The Golden Goblet
The Golden Goblet 3.82 avg rating — 9,796 ratings
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 4.01 avg rating — 6,921 ratings
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The Lacemaker and the Princess
The Lacemaker and the Princess 3.77 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
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Turtle in Paradise
Turtle in Paradise 3.94 avg rating — 20,180 ratings
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Waiting for Anya
Waiting for Anya 3.98 avg rating — 2,241 ratings
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Ashes of Roses
Ashes of Roses 3.98 avg rating — 4,385 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,178 ratings
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The Last Silk Dress
The Last Silk Dress 3.94 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 3.93 avg rating — 10,553 ratings
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Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 3.94 avg rating — 10,800 ratings
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Kathleen: The Celtic Knot
Kathleen: The Celtic Knot 3.82 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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Cécile: Gates of Gold
Cécile: Gates of Gold 3.85 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
15.
Isabel: Taking Wing
Isabel: Taking Wing 3.75 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
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Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave 3.83 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Jefferson's Sons
Jefferson's Sons 4.11 avg rating — 8,912 ratings
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Mutiny's Daughter
Mutiny's Daughter 3.55 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Come Juneteenth
Come Juneteenth 3.54 avg rating — 793 ratings
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An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley 3.76 avg rating — 787 ratings
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The Letter Writer
The Letter Writer 3.79 avg rating — 732 ratings
19.
Broken Days (Quilt Trilogy, #2)
Broken Days (Quilt Trilogy, #2) 3.63 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family 3.77 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold 3.78 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880 3.74 avg rating — 3,564 ratings
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The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys
The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys 3.85 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
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Wolf by the Ears
Wolf by the Ears 3.83 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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In My Father's House
In My Father's House 3.88 avg rating — 2,906 ratings
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Time Enough for Drums
Time Enough for Drums 4.13 avg rating — 3,921 ratings
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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials 3.79 avg rating — 6,270 ratings
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Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 3.56 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918 3.90 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 4.06 avg rating — 2,250 ratings
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I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 3.89 avg rating — 2,862 ratings
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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 3.92 avg rating — 3,479 ratings
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Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 3.85 avg rating — 3,897 ratings
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 3.60 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 3.75 avg rating — 5,449 ratings
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The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 3.93 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild 3.93 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Dreams in the Golden Country: the Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
Dreams in the Golden Country: the Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 3.90 avg rating — 4,919 ratings
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The Staircase
The Staircase 3.75 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
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Before We Were Free
Before We Were Free 3.91 avg rating — 9,247 ratings
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For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy 4.14 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
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Someone Named Eva
Someone Named Eva 4.16 avg rating — 10,070 ratings
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Listening for Lions
Listening for Lions 4.06 avg rating — 4,271 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769 3.91 avg rating — 9,960 ratings
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Bread and Roses, Too
Bread and Roses, Too 3.78 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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Letters from Rifka
Letters from Rifka 3.92 avg rating — 11,146 ratings
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Journey to the River Sea
Journey to the River Sea 4.20 avg rating — 17,183 ratings
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466
Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 3.74 avg rating — 6,527 ratings
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A Murder for Her Majesty
A Murder for Her Majesty 4.23 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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Fanny and the Monsters and Other Stories
Fanny and the Monsters and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Mara, Daughter of the Nile 4.25 avg rating — 13,372 ratings
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Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful 4.15 avg rating — 30,495 ratings
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Egyptian Adventures
Egyptian Adventures 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fever 1793
Fever 1793 3.93 avg rating — 131,293 ratings
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With a Name like Love
With a Name like Love 3.99 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Friend or Foe
Friend or Foe 3.94 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver 3.87 avg rating — 39,017 ratings
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Frozen Summer (Remembrance "Mem" Nye #2)
Frozen Summer (Remembrance "Mem" Nye #2) 3.75 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Carrie's War
Carrie's War 3.92 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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The Golden Days of Greece
The Golden Days of Greece 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Children's Crusade
The Children's Crusade 3.81 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Tales of The Crusades
Tales of The Crusades 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Silver Sword
The Silver Sword 4.02 avg rating — 9,178 ratings
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Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose 3.68 avg rating — 952 ratings
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In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story
In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story 3.65 avg rating — 802 ratings
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The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 7,311 ratings
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The Family Greene
The Family Greene 3.47 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Leigh Ann's Civil War
Leigh Ann's Civil War 3.80 avg rating — 277 ratings
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My Vicksburg
My Vicksburg 3.54 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Juliet's Moon
Juliet's Moon 3.75 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Keep Smiling Through
Keep Smiling Through 3.65 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,289 ratings
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January 1905: A Novel
January 1905: A Novel 3.60 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl 3.98 avg rating — 13,761 ratings
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Lara's Gift
Lara's Gift really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 857 ratings
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Dear Emma
Dear Emma 3.73 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Faraway Summer
Faraway Summer 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Second Fiddle
Second Fiddle 3.93 avg rating — 346 ratings
81.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,920 ratings
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Seven Stories Up
Seven Stories Up 3.95 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Out of the Dust
Out of the Dust 3.77 avg rating — 78,810 ratings
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Moon Over Manifest
Moon Over Manifest 4.04 avg rating — 35,701 ratings
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The Trial
The Trial 3.81 avg rating — 635 ratings
87.
The Secret School
The Secret School
by: Avi
3.84 avg rating — 5,209 ratings
87.
Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising 4.04 avg rating — 111,370 ratings
89.
Radio Girl
Radio Girl 3.78 avg rating — 103 ratings
90.
Every Day After
Every Day After 4.01 avg rating — 545 ratings
91.
Storyteller
Storyteller 3.57 avg rating — 637 ratings
91.
Ashes
Ashes 3.66 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
93.
R My Name Is Rachel
R My Name Is Rachel 3.77 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan 3.93 avg rating — 2,490 ratings
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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards 3.94 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
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The Bicycle Spy
The Bicycle Spy 3.98 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating — 61,489 ratings