Living in the Past, Part 3

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HISTORICAL FANTASY FOR THE CLASSROOM

  a sampling

Prehistory

Jean Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear   YA to adult

Eileen Kernaghan, The Sarsen Witch  (Bronze Age Britain) YA to adult

Joanne Findon, When Night Eats the Moon (Iron Age Britain) 9-12

Mesopotamia/ Sumeria

Geraldine McCaughrean, Gilgamesh the Hero. ages 9-12

Ludmila Zeman, Gilgamesh trilogy (Gilgamesh the King; Revenge of Ishtar; The Last Quest of Gilgamesh) Ages 9-12.

Egypt

Jane Lindskold, The Buried Pyramid. YA

Judith Tarr, Lord of Two Lands.  YA. to adult

Indus Valley

Eileen Kernaghan, Winter on the Plain of Ghosts: a novel of Mohenjo-daro  (Older YA to adult)

Ancient China

Wei Jiang, Legend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient China

Lloyd Alexander, Dream-of-Jade, the Emperor’s Cat. age 9-12

Ancient Greece

Robert Byrd, The Hero and the Minotaur. Gr. 3-6

Dave Duncan (writing as Sarah B. Franklin) Daughter of Troy. Older YA.

Mary Renault, The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea (older YA to adult)

Patrice Kindl,  Lost in the Labyrinth  Ages 10 to 14

Caroline B. Coney, Goddess of Yesterday YA

Rome and Roman Britain

Alan Garner, Red Shift. YA  (Time- Slip novel set in Roman Britain,
17^th C. England and modern times)  YA

Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove, Household Gods. (Older YA to adult)

Vikings

Madeleine A. Polland, Beorn the Proud . Age 4-8

Chris Humphreys, The Fetch. YA

J.B. Olofsen, Svipdag    YA

Middle Ages

Janet McNaughton, An Earthly Knight (12th Century Scotland)  YA

Simon Rose, The Sorcerer’s Letterbox and The Heretic’s Tomb. (Mediaeval England) Gr. 4 to 7

Connie Willis, The Domesday Book (the Plague Years in England) YA to adult 

Elizabethan England.  Susan Cooper, King of Shadows

 Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake

Eileen Kernaghan, The Alchemist’s Daughter  YA

Early explorations

Russel Freedman, author, Bagram Ibatouline, Editor,  Adventures Of Marco Polo .
Ages 9-12   (Whether or not some of  Marco Polo’s adventures were actually fantasy,  the exotic splendour of Kublai Khan’s court lends its own enchantment)

Renaissance Italy

Gregory Maguire, Mirror, Mirror. YA to adult

Dave Duncan, The Alchemist’s Apprentice.  YA to adult.

Seventeenth Century England

John Wilson. The Alchemist’s Dream * 9-12 (not a  fantasy per se,
but the presence of Dr. John Dee adds a touch of magic.)

Himalayan Kingdoms

Peter Dickinson, Tulku

Eileen Kernaghan, Dance of the Snow Dragon (18^th century Bhutan) YA

Victorian England

Linda Newberry, Set in Stone (Gothic YA)

19^th century Ireland

James Heneghan, The Grave YA

Roberta A. McAvoy, The Grey Horse. YA to adult

Historical Canada

Kit Pearson, A Handful of Time

Julie Lawson, White Jade Tiger

Janet Lunn,. The Root Cellar

First Nations

Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House

Comments are invited: add your own favourite titles!