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Historical Fiction - World War I Genre

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Books in the Historical Fiction - World War I genre:

The African Queen (1935)

In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Good Master (1935)

The adventures of Jancsi and his cousin Kate on his father’s ranch in Hungary.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

A City of Bells (1936)

Jocelyn returns from the Boer war, wounded in body and spirit and attempts to recover in the bosom of his family and the work of a book shop. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s): C. Walter Hodges

The General (1936)

A stinging indictment of the British military culture that led to the wanton slaughter of World War I.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): None

The General (1936)

A stinging indictment of the British military culture that led to the wanton slaughter of World War I.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Salomon and Joseph Abbey

Louisa Alcott’s People (1936)

Selections from the works of Louisa May Alcott, including Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Thomas J. Fogarty

Roller Skates (1936)

Lucinda spends a year on her own in New York city in the 1890’s while her parents travel abroad for her mother’s health.

Author(s): Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s): Valenti Angelo

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1937
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

Vertigo (1937)

A series of woodcut illustrations relate the story of three people coping with the hardships of the Great Depression. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Lynd Ward
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

The Singing Tree (1939)

Jancsi and Kate must manage the ranch when the Good Master is called up to fight in World War I. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1940
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1940

The Sister of the Angels (1939)

A story about Henrietta, Hugh Anthony, Torminster Cathedral and Christmas.

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Author(s): Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s): C. Walter Hodges

The African Queen (1940)

In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime. This edition restores the author’s original ending.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): None

The Year of Jubilo (1940)

When their father dies and his business fails, the Wymans retreat to their cottage in Maine to regroup.

Author(s): Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1940

Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941)

Betsy and Tacy gain a new friend when Tib moves to Deep Valley.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942)

Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in these adventures.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Over the Big Hill: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1942)

Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in this series of adventures. Later editions are titled Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Victory for the Slain (1942)

Lofting’s meditation on the futility of war.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)

Betsy and Tacy are growing up and explore their town of Deep Valley.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Down Town: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1943)

In this fourth volume of the Betsy-Tacy series, the girls get enthusiastic about the drama and have many adventures. Betsy discovers the new Carnegie library. The first printing was slightly larger format than later printings of the first edition.... View More

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Heaven to Betsy (1945)

Betsy and Tacy start high school at Deep Valley High.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)

Betsy and her friends are sophomores at Deep Valley High.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Betsy was a Junior (1947)

Betsy and her crowd are now juniors at Deep Valley High.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Carney’s House Party (1949)

Home from her first year at college, Carney gives a house party for her friends, new and old. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)

Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Betsy and the Great World (1952)

Betsy spends a year in Europe and has to decide whether a handsome Italian is the one for her. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

The Colonel’s Squad (1952)

A fictional account of an American Army Colonel who brings five Russian orphans home with him to America.

Author(s): Alf Evers
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

My Friend Yakub (1953)

The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Betsy’s Wedding (1955)

Betsy returns from Europe and Joe is waiting on the dock for her.

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Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

A Lemon and a Star (1955)

Four siblings grow up in New England in the early twentieth century.

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Author(s): E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s): Prudence Seward

Terrible, Horrible Edie (1960)

Edie wants to be included in her older siblings plans, but ends up making her own adventures. The family’s summer by the shore comes to a climax with a hurricane - and it isn’t Edie. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Best of Botts (1961)

Alexander Botts, world’s greatest salesman, sells Caterpillar tractors all over the United States, in France and New Guinea.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Larry Lurin

My Friend Yakub (1961)

The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.

Author(s): Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Edie on the Warpath (1966)

Edie can’t seem to stay out of trouble - things just happen to her.

Author(s): E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s): Paul Galdone

Jessamy (1967)

Orphaned Jessamy slips back in time to 1914 and gets caught up in a mystery.

Author(s): Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s): Philip Gough

More All-of-a-Kind Family (1972)

The series depicts life and adventures of siblings Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie from their younger childhood up to growing teen years in the early 20th century U.S.A. up to WWI.

 

Author(s): Sydney Taylor
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976)

A clear-eyed look at the American south at the time of the Great Depression through the eyes of a young African American girl.

Author(s): Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1977

Superpower (1987)

The story of the building of #1070, prototype locomotive of the Berkshire class 2-8-4 by the Lima Locomotive Works.

Author(s): David Weitzman
Illustrator(s): David Weitzman

Jenny: The Airplane that Taught America to Fly (2002)

The story of the Curtiss JN-4D trainer, affectionately known as the Jenny by her pilots. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): David Weitzman
Illustrator(s): David Weitzman

Betsy Was a Junior and Betsy and Joe (2009)

Betsy’s junior and senior years at Deep Valley High.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself (2009)

Betsy and Tacy’s first two years of high school.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Carney’s House Party and Winona’s Pony Cart (2010)

Carney hosts a house party after her first year at college.

Winona hopes for a pony for her birthday.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Five Children on the Western Front (2014)

The five children find the psammead at the foot of their garden on the eve of the first world war.

Author(s): Kate Saunders
Illustrator(s): Mick Wiggins

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