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=  media type="custom" key="5170053"  Historical Fiction (HF)   = Definition: Realistic fiction that takes place in the past. Could have possibly happened, but is not factual. Here are some links for other Historical Fiction wikis: Red21 and Red7 

Historical Fiction Books To Read:
__Out of the Dust__ by Karen Hesse __A Long Way from Chicago__ by Richard Peck __Bud, Not Buddy__ by Christopher Paul Curtis __Shield of Three Lions__ by Pamela Kaufman __When Zachary Beaver Came to Town__ by Kimberly Willis Holt

Below is a voki and a plot summary for A Long Way from Chicago. More plot summaries are seen at the bottom of this page: media type="custom" key="5188037" To get a link to buy the books below, [|Click Here], and go to the bottom of that page. Click on those pictures.



**Characteristics of Historical Fiction:**
 * Setting
 * usually takes place 40+ years ago in a realistic time (ex. Great Depression)
 * Characters
 * fictional, unreal
 * act like people of time (language, clothing, etc.)
 * Background Information
 * relatively more; on things like setting, people
 * prologue and epilogue to provide what happened in real life before and after the story
 * Perspective
 * mostly told in first person
 * Ending
 * Story usually ends when the realistic time period is ending

**Here is an example plot:** A thin, twelve year-old boy with little money and little education is growing up during the Great Depression. His clothing is ripped and he looks pale. He tells the story, talks about the past, says what is happening. There may be a prologue and/or epilogue to tell about the real person the story is based on. The story ends at the end of the Great Depression with the boy growing up, getting a job, and starting a family. 