What do you think of when you think of historical fiction? Do you think of 50 years ago? More? Less? The Encyclopedia Britannica will tell you that an essential element of historical fiction &#8220… ...

Read historical fiction, and you can travel through time and space to learn about a completely different life. These recent books are perfect for elementary-school aged readers longing to step ...

Well-written historical fiction packs a lot of punch for readers of many ages. Rather than a text book, carefully researched historical fiction deftly combines snippets of history with an engaging ...

Philip Womack is enthralled by six of the best historical fiction for children and teenagers of the year, from the 19th century via the Cuban Missile Crisis and punk rock.

Well written historical fiction packs a lot of punch for readers of many ages. Rather than a textbook, carefully researched historical fiction deftly combines snippets of history with an engaging, ...

Well written historical fiction packs a lot of punch for readers of many ages. ... Kids who may have once thought they didn’t like history may think otherwise once such books are read.

Alice Kunce, who teaches sixth-grade English and seventh- and eighth-grade “exploratory fiction” in Little Rock, Arkansas, uses historical fiction, specifically the book Fire From the Rock, to ...

Often, authors of historical fiction are using the past to advance a particular moral or ideological goal in the present. The way we teach historical fiction to children often fails to recognize that.