Teen Booklist Category: Historical Fiction

In medieval San Gimignano, seventeen-year-old Santina apprentices to Trotula, the village midwife. Some say she is the victim of the midwife’s spell, but Santina is determined to follow in Trotula’s footsteps even as calamities strike. Grades 9 and up.

In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy “swells” of New York City. Grade 7 and up.

During the summer of 1977 when New York City is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam, Nora must also face her family’s financial woes, her father’s absence, and her brother’s growing violence. Grades 9 and up.