Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about HISTORICAL FICTION. CJ and Elza are ready to read up on the 19oos through the ’50s for stories about soaring ambitions, courageous accomplishments, and forming alliances.



- The Body Under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn
- The Girl in the Torch by Robert Sharenow
- The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald



- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm



- Blue Skies by Anne Bustard
- Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
- White Bird by R. J. Palacio



- Telegram for Mrs. Mooney by Cate M. Ruane
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
- The Fighting Stingrays by Simon Mitchell
Add to the List!
Recommend your favorite Middle Grade books that take place during the 1900s-’50s the comments, or add them to our list of historical fiction on Goodreads!