Reading historical fiction opens young readers' minds to a whole world of historical awareness. However, it is important to note that historical fiction can only go so far. Even if an author has spent years and years looking at primary sources in archives, traveling to historically relevant places, and read countless books about their topic, historical fiction is still fiction . As much as we love and encourage these books, it is just the starting point. While this is an exciting opportunity for educators and librarians to use and promote children’s historical fiction, there are two main roadblocks getting in the way. The first, and more obvious one, is the strict limitations of the Common Core State Standards . The second, which will be addressed in the next article, comes from library and education professionals themselves: the existence of a parallel, yet unconnected objective in how children’s historical fiction is both used in the classroom and promoted in libra...