Based on Real People

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 Teen Fiction Based on Real People

 

The Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle

  • Fictionalizes the life of poet Juan Franscisco Manzano in poems.

Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett

  • Percy and  M ary Shelley live an unconventional life for 1800's Europeans.

Your Own Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill

  • Sylvia Plath's life in poems from her childhood to her marriage to Ted Hughes to her eventual suicide.

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

  • Anne Hathaway's life before and after Will.

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer

  • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and "rescued" as an adult.

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

  • Las Marisposas were real revolutionaries in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.

 

 

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