This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
by Stephen Ambrose

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Escape From Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

Marie Dancing by Carolyn Meyer

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Elizabeth Miller

Brooklyn Rose by Ann Rinaldi

Dust by Arthur Slade

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde

Recommend for grades 9-12:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
by M.T. Anderson

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes

Breath by Donna Jo Napoli

Amanda Miranda by Richard Peck

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

Witch Child by Celia Rees

Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
by Ann Rinaldi

Maid Marian by Elsa Watson

Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen