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Historical Fiction - World War I Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - World War I genre:
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)
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)
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.
Read online at archive.org.
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)
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
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
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)
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