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The important thing about historical fiction is...IT'S ALL ABOUT THE STORY!

Here are a few different types to think about...

• Events happening before the author was born
• A novel written a long time ago, that is now historical because so much time has passed
• An author telling about his/her own life (and they're "old" enough to be considered historical)
• Time travel!

Imagine meeting the boy/girl of your dreams, planning your life together, and then...

Cuban Missile Crisis: 

• Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
• Countdown by Deborah Wiles
• This Means War by Ellen Wittlinger

Japanese Interment Camps:

• When the Emperor was Divine by Julia Otsuka
• Take What you Can Carry by Kevin C. Pyle

Post WWI:

• Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan

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