Fran Romer Memorial Teen Services Workshop

The Best Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Books to Booktalk

Doris Gebel-Head of Youth Services
Northport-East Northport Public Library

The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Pope
Highway Robbery by Kate Thompson
Impossible by Nancy Werlin

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Renee McGrath-Youth Services Manager
Nassau Library System

The Stolen One by Suzanne Crowley
Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Sheila Solomon Klass
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede

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Barbara Moon-Young Adult Specialist
Suffolk County Library System

View Barbara's "What's Your Favorite: Historical Fiction's Got It" presentation

Red Menace by Danny Bilson
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen
Incognegro by Mat Johnson
Guardian by Julius Lester
Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
Marvel Illustrated: The Man in the Iron Mask by Roy Thomas

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Tracy Van Dyne- President
Young Adult Services Division of SCLA

Need by Carrie Jones
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
The Letter Writer by Ann Rinaldi
Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb