Recommend me a historical fiction novel set in America at least 50 years ago
My middle schooler is looking for a novel with the above requirements – he reads at an adult level, but would prefer something PG rated please! Any engaging, couldn't-put-it-down suggestions?
Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Separate Peace explores morality, patriotism, and loss of innocence through its narrator, Gene Forrester, in his relationship with classmate and friend Phineas.
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Mark Twain:
· *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*.
· *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*.
*The Red Badge of Courage* by Stephen Crane.
*The Call of the Wild* by Jack London.
*The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
*To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee.
John Steinbeck:
· *The Grapes of Wrath*.
· *Cannery Row*.
· *The Pearl*.
*All the King’s Men* by Robert Penn Warren.
*Beloved* by Toni Morrison.
*Invisible Man* by Ralph Ellison.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles.
Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Separate Peace explores morality, patriotism, and loss of innocence through its narrator, Gene Forrester, in his relationship with classmate and friend Phineas.
* [Rifles for Watie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529474.Rifles_for_Watie) by Harold Keith
* [The Witch of Blackbird Pond](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703292.The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond) by Elizabeth George Speare
* [The King’s Fifth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55294338-the-king-s-fifth) by Scott O’Dell
The final one is set in the 1500s in what is now California.