Historical Fiction Books for Kids
…and Flocabulary Songs to Go With Them!
If your students are reading historical fiction, help set the stage with Flocabulary’s history songs! We’ve assembled a list of Flocab videos to help you add a historical component to your literature, or a literary element to your social studies. These raps quickly provide historical context for favorite works of historical fiction.
World History
If you’re reading… …you could use:
Middle Ages: Europe - "It's Dangerous"
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Imperialism - "The Sun Never Sets"
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi
Postcolonialism - "Our Own Nation"
Homespun by Nilita Vachani
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beal
The Modern Middle East - "What Lies Beneath"
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Modern China - "Don't Mess with the Dragon"
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
Spring Pearl: The Last Flower by Laurence Yep
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Katherine Paterson
American History
If you’re reading… …you could use:
Thirteen Colonies - "I Want America"
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
American Revolution - "This Ain't Working"
My Brother Sam is Dead by Chistopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
A Stitch in Time by Ann Rinaldi
Civil War - "Ghosts of the Civil War"
Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Hamilton
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
World War I - "The Great War"
Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Great Depression - "FDR" (Interlude)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback
Native Son by Richard Wright
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
"Jazz Age"
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
World War II - "Would You Drop It?"
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Summer of My German Soldier by Betta Greene
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A Separate Peace by John Knowles