1. Books that take you back in time!

2. Cross-Genre with Mysteries, Romance, Horror Cross-Genre with Fantasy, Paranormal, or Science Fiction Yes!  No! Historical Fiction

3. Modern Becomes Historic Historic author wrote about their own modern times, which have since become historic times.

4. Modern Becomes Historic Charles DickensJane Austen

5. Modern Becomes Historic Mark TwainSir Arthur Conan Doyle

6. Modern Becomes Historic Many classics can be read online or with an e-reader for free, because they pre-date our modern copyright laws. ~*~ Project Gutenberg is one website that offers these books to the public.

7. Modern Authors Re-create Historical Settings

8. What was life like back then? What would my life have been like back then? How is life still the same?

9. Set in Historic Time Period— Medieval Forced to go on a pilgrimage, then abandoned in the Alps in winter. Chased across Medieval Europe and he has no idea why.

10. Set in Historic Time Period— Texas Galveston settler kidnapped by Native Americans. New to the city, when Galveston Hurricane of 1900 devastates the island. Granddad wants her to read Darwin, and her mother wants her to clean.

11. Set in Historic Time Period— 20 th Century Triangle Shirtwaist factory has miserable working conditions, and then a fire starts in the factory while the girls are trapped inside Dave runs away from a cruel boarding school and finds the jazz and culture of the Harlem Renaissance.

12. www.historicalnovels.info Select YA Novels to see a list of time period novel lists

13. TIME TRAVEL Contemporary character travels back in time and experiences life in a historic era.

14. If a character goes back in time, experiences life in that time, and stays there for the majority of the story Device for time travel is unimportant or unknown If a character goes forward in time. If a character moves through multiple time periods. Device for time travel is part of the story. Yes! This is Historic Fiction  No! This is Science Fiction Time Travel Novels as Historical Fiction

15. Max, Kyle, and Emma are staying with their crazy grandfather who has a time machine. When Emma is kidnapped, the boys and a friend must travel back to find her. Hannah is tired of hearing about the holocaust. But when she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942, she becomes caught up in the tragedy of the time.

16. Happy Historic Reading!