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History Chapter Books

Historical fiction in chapter books brings the past to life through characters who feel real and immediate. These 6,906 books cover every era with the kind of detail that makes history stick.

6,906 books

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Who Was Sojourner Truth?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Long before the modern civil rights movement, a woman named Belle escaped slavery and changed her name to travel the cou

Cover of Our Don Bradman

My Australian Story #11

Our Don Bradman

Cricket-obsessed Victor moves to Sydney during the Great Depression, hoping for a chance to see his hero Don Bradman fac

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Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Esperanza leaves her life of privilege in Mexico for a California labor camp, fighting to adapt and survive during the G

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A Picture Book Biography #8

A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus

David A. Adler

For children curious about the world's most famous explorers, this gentle biography introduces the persistence and visio

Ages 6–9

Cover of The Queen's Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet

The Queen's Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet

Celeste Davidson Mannis

Feasts, jousting, and hidden traitors await as Queen Elizabeth I travels the English countryside in this rhyming histori

Cover of Frontier Merchants: Lionel & Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers Who Settled the West

Frontier Merchants: Lionel & Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers Who Settled the West

Lionel and Barron Jacobs journey to 1867 Tucson to open a general store and eventually establish the first bank in Arizo

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Montmorency on the Rocks

Montmorency must balance his double life in Victorian London while hunting a bomber and solving a mysterious poisoning i

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Uncommon Compendiums #1

Extraordinary People

Meet a man who survived seven lightning strikes and a woman who walked to the North Pole alone in this collection of 50

Cover of Hatshepsut: The Princess Who Became King

National Geographic World History Biographies #1

Hatshepsut: The Princess Who Became King

Witness the rise of a determined princess as she navigates palace life and defies tradition to become one of ancient Egy

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A Day That Changed America

The March on Washington

Margeaux Weston

For children asking why fairness matters, this narrative history brings the 1963 March on Washington to life, showing ho

Cover of I Am Regina

Kidnapped during the French and Indian War, ten-year-old Regina fights to remember her past as she adopts a new name and

Cover of A Long Way From Chicago

Grandma Dowdel #1

A Long Way From Chicago

Grandma Dowdel fights off town bullies and poaches fish in these hilarious stories of Joey and Mary Alice's wild summer

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Mira's Diary #1

A cryptic postcard leads Mira to the roof of Notre Dame, where a single touch sends her back in time to rescue her mothe

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A Picture Book Biography #13

A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass

Follow the journey of a man who escaped slavery to become one of the most powerful voices for freedom and abolition in t

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Abraham Lincoln

Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

From his humble beginnings in a log cabin on the Kentucky frontier, follow the journey of the boy who grew up to become

Cover of Building Bridges

Our Canadian Girl: Emily #2

Building Bridges

Meeting her friend's daughter sparks a new bond for Emily, but balancing this connection with her old best friend requir

Cover of Fallout

Tension rises in a 1962 bomb shelter as Scott, his family, and their neighbors face a nuclear crisis and watch their lim

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Ghost Town Treasure

Clyde Robert Bulla

Desperate to save his family's store from closing, a boy follows clues from an old diary in hopes of finding gold hidden

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The Invisible Detective #1

Justin Richards

Fourteen-year-old Arthur finds an old casebook that pulls him into a 1936 mystery involving sinister puppets and an iden

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Find Where the Wind Goes

Follow the path of the first African American woman in space, from her Chicago childhood and Stanford studies to her med

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The Fourth Wise Man

A fourth Wise Man misses the caravan to find the newborn King because he stops to help others, leading to a life-changin

Cover of Thornhill

A haunting mystery unfolds through two parallel timelines as a young girl uses art and text to discover the secret of th

Cover of About Face

A lonely girl living above a second-hand store and a traveling carnival performer find their lives transformed when an u

Cover of Snot Collectors and Spider Ladders and Other Bonkers Inventions

Snot Collectors and Spider Ladders and Other Bonkers Inventions

Peck-proof glasses for chickens and noodle-cooling chopsticks are just the beginning in this hilarious look at the world

More Formats for History

Young Adult(675)Graphic Novels(319)Middle Grade(315)Picture Books(199)Poetry(129)Early Readers(88)Board Books(5)

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History Books for Ages 0–3(616)History Books for Ages 4–7(6530)