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Historical Fiction - World War I Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - World War I genre:
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)
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)
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.
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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)
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
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.
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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