Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

Chains: Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson

Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman

Troy by Adele Geras

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold

Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks

Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Aftershocks by William Lavendar 

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Day of Tears by Julius Lester

Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle

Gideon's People by Carolyn Meyer

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer

Patience, Princess Catherine by Caroline Meyer

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Serpent Never Sleeps by Scott O'Dell

Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder

Pirates! by Celia Rees

Amelia's War by Ann Rinaldi

Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi

Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak