For a project for school, we're supposed to choose a historical fiction book for the 9th or 10th grade reading level and do a report on it. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! (please include book title, author, and a brief summary. thanks again!)
2006-09-21 08:26:19 · 10 answers · asked by Alyssy 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Mount Vernon by Mary Higgins Clark,it is fictional although has a lot of history in it about the life of George and Martha Washington
As the quasi-biographical novel opens, George Washington is preparing to attend the inauguration of his successor, John Adams; Clark, employing inelegant but efficient transitional techniques (Adams's "rather flat nasal voice seemed to become more clipped and sharp-toned.... It became his mother's voice"), quickly moves the narrative back to George's boyhood. The temporal seesaw continues as she juxtaposes George's trials (his mean mother, his unrequited love for a friend's wife) and triumphs (his land acquisitions, his bravery in battle) with his reflections on the state of the union in the novel's 1797 present. But her focus remains on the domestic (a French and Indian ambush at the Monongahela River in 1755 is rendered with far less care and credibility than scenes of George's skill on the dance floor) and the emotional (George's "mantle of leadership" concerns him much less than the naughtiness of his stepson). What passes for a driving narrative force is George's slow transfer of affection from the beautiful, charismatic Sally Carey to the small, "pretty widow" Martha (known as Patsy) Custis he married, and then the growing bond between "my old man" and "my dearest Patsy."
2006-09-21 08:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Johnny Tremain was always a good book, however in my case he was 8th grade reading, so maybe not good for your age group.
I don't know if it would qualify but Charles Dickens" A tale of two cities", based on the French Revolution is quite good.
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, again based on the effects of the French Revolution, more difficult than Dickens might also qualify.
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott- about the Jacobite Uprising of 1715 set in the North of England and Scotland.
The Decameron- by Giovanni Boccacio- it is a series of stories told by people who have left the city centers to avoid the Plague.
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell, set during the American Civil War.
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy- the Russian Revolution.
Also, try this website for more recommendations:
www.wcfls.lib.wi.us/mukcom/adult/adult _reading_lists/reading_lists/recommended_historical_novels_htm
2006-09-21 09:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1906 -The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
It was intended to be a socialist treatise on the abuses that the poor immigrants suffered while working in Chicago's meat packing industry. After it was published many people wondered if the unsanitary way that the book described meat packing was actually true. To the amazement and disgust of many , the facts worse worse than the fiction.
The book is the cornerstone for safe food in America and it is one reasons that we have ways to trace down the current E.coli spinach crisis.
Be forewarned it can get gross at times , but it's still worth reading
2006-09-21 09:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain books are very popular - e.g. Huckleberry Finn. I would also recommend Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin. These are often required readings for many high school students.
2006-09-21 08:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clan of the cave BEar by Jean Auel. It's about a Cro-Magnon girl who was raised by Nethanderthals. Excellent book. There are 6 in the series if you like the first.
2006-09-21 08:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sara 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. It's a small view of the French Revolution. We read it here in 10th grade.
2006-09-21 08:32:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Follow the River" by James Alexander Thom
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people.
2006-09-21 08:34:40 · answer #7 · answered by trinnie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Son of the Mob, book one.
Don't know the autor, sorry.
2006-09-21 08:54:36 · answer #8 · answered by summerlover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
julius ceasar (by: william shakespeare)
-a play that gives an account of the events leading up to the death of julius ceasar; good and not very long.
2006-09-21 08:37:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those grades ... damn. Let me dig.
The Grapes of Wrath.
OMG I blanked out. I can't believe it!
2006-09-21 08:34:39 · answer #10 · answered by auniquekind 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋