Based on Real People

 Teen Fiction Based on Real People or Events

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch

•  Pub Date: 2010
• Middle school interest 
• See also: Historical
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen

• Pub Date: 2002
• Middle and high school interest
• See also: Historical
• Eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display. 

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

• Pub Date: 2008
• Middle and high school interest 
• See also: Historical Fiction 
• Anne Hathaway's life before and after Will.

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer

• Pub Date: 1992
• Middle and high school interest 
• The story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and "rescued" as an adult.

Caravaggio Signed in Blood by Mark David Smith

• Pub Date: 2016
• Middle and high school interest 
• See also: Historical

Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett

• Pub Date: 2006
• High school interest 
• See also: Writers, Historical
• A fictionalized account of the life of Mary Shelley.

Your Own Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill

• Pub Date: 2007
• High school interest 
• Sylvia Plath's life in poems from her childhood to her marriage to Ted Hughes to her eventual suicide.

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

• Adult novel with interest to teens 
• Las Marisposas were real revolutionaries in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.

X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon

• Pub Date: 2015
• High school interest
• Based on the life of Malcolm X 

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

• Pub Date: 2003
• High school Interest
• Based on a real murder case in 1906 New York
• See also: Historical, Writers

Into the Dim by Janet Taylor

• Pub Date: 2016
• High school interest
• See also: Secrets 
• Hope travels back in time and meets Eleanor of Aquitane.

The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap

• Pub Date: 2009
• High school interest
• See also: Historical, International Setting 
• Franz Joseph Hadyn is a character in this historical mystery. 

Through the Barricades by Denise Deegan

• Pub Date: 2016
• High school interest 
• See also: Historical, International Setting 
• On My Blog: History Lessons 
• Maggie and Daniel fall in love, but are separated by war. Culminates in the Easter Uprising of 1916.

Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden

• Pub Date: 2017
• Middle and High School interest
• Mariah and Caleb fall in love after they meet on Sherman's March to the Sea. 

Forged in the Fire by Ann Turnbull

• Pub Date: 2007
• High school interest
• 1665 London
• Sequel to: No Shame No Fear 
• See also: Historical Fiction, Marriage
• Will and Susanna deal with the Plague in London and the Great Fire.