13 best-selling historical fiction books like Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

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Lily's Crossing

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.82

Format: 254 pages,

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough

1. The Bicycle Spy

By: Yona Zeldis McDonough

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Can Marcel make the ride of his life? Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through … read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

2. Sing Down the Moon

By: Scott O'Dell

3.76

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, f… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

By: Kirby Larson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, 16-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travel… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Home is not a building, but a feeling of belonging."

-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

"Sometimes it takes a big dream to wake up a small town."

-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

"I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience."

-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

"Sometimes the biggest battles we face are within ourselves."

-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

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4. The Middle Moffat (The Moffats, #2)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A 1943 Newbery Honor Book Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and sh… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry

4.00

Format: None pages,

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war.… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Bronze Bow

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Sa… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

"It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

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7. Belle Prater's Boy

By: Ruth White

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodro… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Lily's Crossing

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.82

Format: 254 pages,

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) by Richard Peck

10. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

By: Richard Peck

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. It's Like This, Cat

By: Emily Cheney Neville , Emil Weiss

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I… read more

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12. Riding Freedom

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan , Brian Selznick

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment. In this… read more

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13. Paperboy

By: Vince Vawter

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a … read more

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14. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more

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15. The Great Gilly Hopkins

By: Katherine Paterson

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry… read more

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16. The Underneath

By: Kathi Appelt , David Small

3.98

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned o… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"THE WORLD IS made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk."

-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

"Whenever there is a breeze in the old forest, you might, for a moment, realize that the trees are singing. There, on the wind, are the voices of sugarberry and juniper and maple..."

-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

"Here, she curled up in a tight ball and waited, purred to her unborn babies. And the trees, the tall and kindly trees, watched over her while she slept, slept the whole night through."

-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

"For trees, who see so much sorrow, so much anger, so much desperation, know love for the rare wonder of it, so they are champions of it and will do whatever they can to help it along its way."

-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

17. Absolutely Truly

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

An unsent letter in a first edition copy of Charlotte's Webleads to a hunt for treasure in this hea… read more

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18. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Rescue book and Patricia Reilly Giff's Lily's Crossing

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

Cover of The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

21. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Yona Zeldis McDonough

3.99

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Scott O'Dell

3.76

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Kirby Larson

4.02

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Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

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22 Top fiction books like The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

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Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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Joan W. Blos

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