Historical+Fiction

=﻿Historical Fiction Books =

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Watch a scene from the book, //Makoa and the Place of Refuge,// created by Alex from Hawaii media type="file" key="Alex.m4v" width="300" height="300"

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media type="file" key="Sam and Rachel book discussion.wmv" width="300" height="300" Sam and Rachel discuss two historical fiction books set during the Civil War. From Indiana

media type="file" key="Submarine_Hunley.wmv" width="300" height="300" Listen to a book review about //Secrets of a Civil War Submarine//, by Sally M. Walker. From Indiana



Click the link above to play the game: "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader", about the book: //Captured: A Boy Trapped in the Civil War,// by Mary Blair Immel. From Indiana



The story __Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt__ by Deborah Hopkinson is about a slave named Clara who was being moved from her home to Home plantation.She was in care of her Aunt Rachel who really wasn't her blood aunt.Clara wanted to break out and go find her momma at another plantation, but there was only one problem for that idea.She wouldn't last in the woods by herself.So Aunt Rachel came up with an idea. The next day, Aunt Rachel taught Clara how to sew.Clara complained sometimes, but then got over it and began to get better at it.One day Aunt Rachel said to Clara that she was going with her to the Big House. When the Missus wanted to look at Clara's work, she was pleased.Now Clara is a steamstress.Later in the year, Sweet Clara started a quilt, but it wasn't any quilt,it was a freedom quilt! It was a path to freedon she created by listening to visitors' stories. Clara had been working hard on it and finally finished, then set off to look for her momma with young Jack. She did find her and discovered a new little sister named Anna. They all set out for freedom that night, and succeded by following the freedom quilt.Finally, they had Freedom! ~By: Amaya and Stephanie in Alabama



Click the link above to choose your fate in a game based on the book: //North by Night// by Katherine Ayres. From Indiana

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Rachel interviews Gabriel (Alice) from //Gabriel's Horses,// by Alison Hart.

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Click to hear an interview with the characters in //An Island Far From Home//, by John Donahue. From Indiana

An interview with the character from //Voices from Iraq. Created and read by Ryan from Hawaii.// media type="file" key="Iraq Heroes.m4v" width="300" height="300"