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Hitler's Secret  by William Osborne 

Otto and Leni thought they were safe: They escaped -- barely -- from war-torn Europe and are living as refugees in England. But now the Crown has recruited them: Great Britain wants them to go back. As spies!

Dropped behind enemy lines, Otto and Leni embark on a top-secret operation. Code name: Wolfsangel. Their mission? Capture the one person who can defeat the ultimate evil of Nazism! Der Fuhrer has destroyed Otto's and Leni's families, but what if the tables were turned? What if Hitler's ultimate legacy was in their hands?

Breathless pacing, nonstop action: By the screenwriter of Goldeneye, HITLER'S SECRET is a cinematic tale of revenge with an unexpected twist. A note by the author explains the truth behind the fiction and lets readers know what really became of history's greatest villains.  (Review from amazon.com)

Ghost Hawk  by Susan Cooper 

From Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper, a story of adventure and friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler.

On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow and arrows, his handcrafted tomahawk, and the amazing metal knife his father traded for with the new white settlers. If Little Hawk survives three moons by himself, he will be a man.

John Wakely is only ten when his father dies, but he has already experienced the warmth and friendship of the nearby tribes. Yet his fellow colonists aren’t as accepting of the native people. When he is apprenticed to a barrel-maker, John sees how quickly the relationships between settlers and natives are deteriorating. His friendship with Little Hawk will put both boys in grave danger.

The intertwining stories of Little Hawk and John Wakely are a fascinating tale of friendship and an eye-opening look at the history of our nation. Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper also includes a timeline and an author’s note that discusses the historical context of this important and moving novel. 
(Review from amazon.com)

Another list of historical fiction: 

Here are many of the books that 

you and your classmates and former students

have chosen.

1. All Quiet on the Western Front:  World War I, trench warfare
2. A Long Way from Chicago:  Great Depression, 1930's, Illinois
3. A Thousand Never Evers: South during the Civil Rights Movement, 1963
4. Across Five Aprils:  Civil War, Southern Illinois
5. Adventures of Tom Sawyer:   Mississippi River town in the early 19th century
6. All Capone Does My Shirts: Alcatraz, Great Depression, Al Capone, autism
7. Assassin: John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Reconstruction
8. Black Storm Comin':  Pony Express, racial tensions, wagon trains, Civil War
9. Book of the Lion: Crusades, King Richard
10. Book Thief, The :  World War II, Holocaust, Dachau
11. Boy in the Striped Pajamas:  World War II, Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Auschwitz
12. Caged Eagles:  Canada, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment
13. Chains: slavery, Revolutionary War
14. Charley Skedaddle:  Civil War
15. Charlotte's Rose: Mormon handcart pioneers
16. Crossing the Wire:  illegal aliens, border between U.S. and Mexico
17. Deadly:  Typhoid Mary
18. Devil’s Arithmetic, The:  Holocaust, World War II
19. Devil's Paintbox:  1865, drought, Kansas, Seattle lumber camps, Oregon Trail, smallpox
20. Doomed Queen Anne:  Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, England
21. Elijah of Buxton:  slavery, Buxton, Canada,  slave catchers
22. Emil and Karl:  Holocaust, Vienna, World War II
23. Fever, 1793: yellow fever, Philadelphia, epidemic
24. Forge: Valley Forge, runaway slaves, Revolutionary War 
25. Friedrich:  1830's, Germany, Hitler, Jewish
26. Help, The;  Civil Rights, Medgar Evers   The Help
27. Hero’s Don’t Run:  World War II, Pacific Theatre
28. Honus and Me: Honus Wagner, baseball, baseball cards, 1909 World Series
29. Jimmy Spoon: Old West, Shoshoni Indians, Chief Washakie
30. Journal of Ben Uchida:  Japanese-Americans, internment camps, World War II, Pearl Harbor http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/journal-ben-uchida-discussion-guidehttp://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm
31. Light in the Forest:  Pennsylvanian Colony, Lenni Lenape tribe, territorial wars
32. Little House on the Prairie: The First Four Years:  South Dakota prairie, pioneers, 1880's
33. Lunch Box Dream:  The Civil Rights Movement
34. Matilda Bone: medieval English village, medicine in the Middle Ages,  leech, barber-surgeon, apothecary, bonesetter
35. Midwife's Apprentice:  Middle Ages (Medieval), midwifery, medicine in the Middle Ages
36. Moon Over Manifest: World War I, Great Depression, Ku Klux Klan, immigrants, coal mining
37. Most Beautiful Place in the World, The:  Guatemala, poverty
38. My Brother Sam is Dead:  Revolutionary War
39. Nightjohn:  slavery, 1850’s U.S. South,  Civil War
40. Numbering All the Bones:  Civil War, slavery, Prisoner of War,  Andersonville Prison, Clara Barton
41. Number the Stars:  Holocaust , World War II, Resistance
42. Out of the Dust:  Great Depression, Dust Bowl 
43. Rifles for Watie: Civil War, Cherokee Indian rebels
44. Rilla of Ingleside:  World War I, Canada, Red Cross
45. River Between Us, The:  beginning of Civil War, 1916, 1861, Camp Defiance, slavery
46. Rumors of War: World War II
47. Run Away Home: 1886, Apache Indians,Geronimo, reservations, African Americans
48. Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains:
49. Secret Life of Bees, The:  South Carolina, 1964, racism,
50. Shades of Gray: Civil War, Reconstruction
51. Shakeress, The: Shakers, religious movements in the 1820s and '30s, orphans
52. Shakespeare Stealer,  Shakespeare’s Scribe, Shakespeare’s Spy:  Shakespeare, Globe Theater, 1600’s,  black plague, Elizabethan England
53. Slave Dancer:  1840, slave ships, slavery, New Orleans, Africa
54. Someone Named Eva:  Lebensborn center in Poland, Nazi, World War II
55. Sounder: Civil Rights,  sharecroppers, early nineteenth century 
56. Steal Away. . . to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong:  slavery
57. Summer of My German Soldier: Nazi, prisoners of war (POW camp), internment camp
58. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The:   1832 transatlantic crossing, Puritans, mutiny
59. Tucket's Travels: Mr. Tucket: Old West, Oregon Trail, Pawnee Indians
60. Under the Blood Red Sun:  World War II, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Japanese-Americans
61. Vietnam #1: I Pledge Allegiance : Vietnam War, draft, U.S. Navy
62. War Horse: World War I, cavalry, trench warfare  War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
63. Witch of Blackbird Pond, The: Colony of Connecticut in 1687, religious intolerance, Puritanism,  Quakers 
64. Woods Runner:  Revolutionary War, Hessians
65. Words in the Dust: Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban
66. Year of the Hangman, The :  This is actually speculative fiction, grounded in our past history.  It asks, what would have happened if the British had won the Revolutionary War?