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Historical Fiction __**Characteristics of Historical Fiction**__ Historical fiction definition: realistic fiction that takes place in the past. characteristics of a historical fiction story;
 * The story has real facts of the event imbedded into it.
 * The event happened 40 or more years ago.
 * The author writes the dialogue in the book the way they would have spoken then. e.x. if the story takes place in scotland the characters would speak with a scottish accent and with scottish slang words.
 * The author uses fictional characters to portray the real people who this event actually happened to. In other cases the author might use a fictional character that gets themselves into the event somehow.
 * Most of the story is true to be historical but not all. So some of it is fiction which makes it historical fiction.
 * Depending on the book there is going to be a varying amount of dialogue in the book.
 * There is commonly a prologue as well as an epilogue.

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Here are several historical fiction books that are good examples of the genre, __The Shield of Three Lions__ by Pamela medieval, __When Zachary Beaver Came to Town__ by Kimberly Holt, __Bud Not Buddy__ by Christopher Curtis, __Out of the Dust__ by Karen Hesse, and finally __Long Way From Chicago__ by Richard Peck. Click onthe books with a caption under them for a link to another page.

All these books take place in different time periods: the first one takes place in medieval europe during the time of king Richard. the second, during the dust bowl, the third one segregation times, the fourth the dust bowl again, and the last book takes place during the great depression.

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