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This guide of teacher-recommended Web sites is a great way to teach your students more about the books offered on Trumpet each month. Web Guide on HISTORICAL FICTION Nothing brings history to life better than a good story. Suddenly it's more than just dates and wars-it's real people, just like us, struggling and triumphing. Every month, Trumpet features lots of exciting historical fiction for you and your students, and this October is no exception!

	The Midwife's Apprentice
	The Royal Diaries: Isabel: Jewel of Castilla
	Dear Ellen Bee
	When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
	The Battlefield Ghost
	How Would You Survive in the American West?

Experience the hardships of life for a young, homeless girl in medieval England in the award-winning The Midwife's Apprentice, and in The Royal Diaries: Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, meet the Spanish queen who sponsored Columbus. Find out how Isabel, against the background of the plague and the Inquisition, plots to marry Prince Ferdinand and reveals in these diary entries her profound interest in religion and exploration. Dear Ellen Bee uses fictional letters and scrapbooks to tell the extraordinary true story of two women spies in the Civil War. In When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, author Judith Kerr relies on her own experiences as a child fleeing Nazi Germany to weave a suspenseful tale of escape and family love. Also based on the author's own life is In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, a novel by acclaimed writer Bette Bao Lord, about how-newly arrived from China-she learned to love America through baseball. And don't miss the thrilling The Battlefield Ghost, in which John and Lisa have to help the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier! Finally, you might get your students started on their own historical fiction projects with the wonderfully informative How Would You Survive in the American West? It's chock-full of pictures and details about everyday life on the frontier that students could use in their stories! For some exciting ideas on how to use Historical Fiction in your classroom, be sure to check out the Web sites below!

See Other Web Guides!

Historical Fiction in the Classroom
http://www.msu.edu/~vandeki3/
A curriculum overview with a wealth of great links-why and how to use historical fiction, lesson plans, book lists, and more.

Eyewitness
http://www.ibiscom.com/
Get the inside scoop on history-told by the people who were there. Diary accounts, personal records, and excerpts from longer works illuminate the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Civil War, the twentieth century, and more. An award winner!

You Be the Historian
http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer/index.htm
Students study objects from a 200-year-old home to figure out how people actually lived. This exciting online activity includes a teacher's guide.

Historical Fiction
http://hillside.coled.umn.edu/1994-95/ww2/historical.html
This elementary school classroom studied historical fiction and then wrote their own stories! Site includes lesson plans and student-written examples of historical fiction.