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Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Author: Kristin Levine
In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man. Ages 9-12
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Caddie Woodlawn
Author: Carol Ryrie Brink
Tomboy Caddie and her brothers share many adventures growing up on the Wisconsin prairie. (Prairie Life) Ages 9-12
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Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island
Author: Laurence Yep
Ten-year-old Gim Lew leaves his village in China to accompany his father to America, having prepared for a grueling test that he will be required to pass--without stuttering--at California's Angel Island, where officials strive to keep out unwanted immigrants. Includes facts about immigration from China and the experiences of the author's family. Ages 8-12.
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Drinking Gourd
Author: F. N. Monjo
A young white boy discovers his family's involvement in the Underground Railroad. (Slavery) Ages 6-8
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Fighting Ground
Author: Avi
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan runs off to fight in the Revolution, only to find that war is not what he expected. (Revolutionary War) Ages 9-12
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Gathering of Days: A New England girl's journal 1830-32
Author: Joan W. Blos
Catherine's journal recounts turbulent years on the family's New Hampshire farm. (Farm Life) Ages 9-12
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George, the Drummer Boy
Author: Nathaniel Benchley
A view of the events at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which were the start of the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of George, a British drummer boy. (Revolutionary War) Ages 6-8
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Goin’ Someplace Special
Author: Pat McKissick
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library. (African Americans) Ages 6-8
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Author: Lois Lenski
In this classic Newbery Honor Award book, Lois Lenski authentically reconstructs the fascinating story of Mary Jemison's capture, flight, and early years with the Seneca Indians. (Indian Captives) Ages 9-12
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Inside Out and Back Again
Author: Thanhaa Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. Ages 9-12
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Josefina Story Quilt
Author: Eleanor Coerr
While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina. (Pioneer Life) Ages 6-8
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Journey to Topaz
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Eleven-year-old Yuki and her family are forced to evacuate their California home and report to a relocation camp. (Japanese American Internment-World War II) Ages 9-12
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Lily's Crossing
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily's view of the Second World War changes after she meets a young Hungarian refugee. (World War II) Ages 9-12
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Lincoln and His Boys
Author: Rosemary Wells
Brothers Willie and Taddie share stories about their father, Abraham Lincoln, from 1859 to 1865. (Presidents’ Children) Ages 6-8
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Mighty Miss Malone
Author: Christopher Curtis
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. Ages 9-12
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Misadventures of Maude March
Author: Audrey Couloumbis
After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read. (Frontier Life) Ages 9-12
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Moon Over Manifest
Author: Clare Vanderpool
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in his hometown of Manifest, Kansas. Abilene hopes to find out some things about his past and in the process uncovers a local mystery. Ages 9-12
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My Brother Abe
Author: Harry Mazer
Forced off their land in Kentucky in 1816, nine-year-old Sarah Lincoln and her family move to the Indiana frontier. (Frontier Life) Ages 9-12
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My Name is Sally Little Song
Author: Brenda Woods
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians. Ages 8-12. J Woods
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Naming Liberty
Author: Jane Yolen
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial. (Immigration) Ages 6-8
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One Crazy Summer
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
In the summer of 1968, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters travel from Brooklyn, New York to Oakland, California, where they receive a cold welcome from their mother who resents their arrival and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. Ages 9-12
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Out of the Dust
Author: Karen Hesse
Fifteen-year-old Billie Jo feels trapped on her family's wheat farm during the dust bowl years in Oklahoma. (The Depression) Ages 9-12
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Penny from Heaven
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Penny has always wondered why neither side of her family will talk about her father, an obviously beloved man, who died during World War II. The summer she turns 13, Penny discovers why. This semi-autobiographical coming of age novel is set firmly in the fifties with baseball, the Dodgers, polio and the ups and downs of living in a family split apart by tragedy. (Italian Americans) Ages 9-12
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Pink and Say
Author: Patricia Polacco
Pink, an African-American soldier, rescues Say, an injured white soldier, during the Civil War, before both are captured by Confederate troops. (Civil War) Ages 9-12
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R My Name is Rachel
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a rundown farm. But times are rough during the Depression, and when Pop finds work in Canada for two months, the three must manage on their own. Ages 9-12.
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Rodzina
Author: Karen Cushman
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid hard work. (Orphan Trains) Ages 9-12
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Great Depression faces discrimination and prejudice. (Social Issues--1930s) Ages 9-12
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Sam the Minuteman
Author: Nathaniel Benchley
An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington. (Revolutionary War) Ages 6-8
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Sarah arrives from the East to mother two young children living on the prairie. (Pioneer Life) Ages 6-8
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Secret School
Author: Avi
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. (Rural Schools) Ages 9-12
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Seer of Shadows
Author: Avi
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. (Photography) Ages 9-12
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Shooting the Moon
Author: Frances O’Roark Dowell
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in. (Vietnam War) Ages 9-12
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Sign of the Beaver
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Matt, a twelve-year-old boy alone in the Maine wilderness, is befriended by two Native Americans who teach him how to survive. (Pioneer Life) Age 9-12
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Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution
Author: Avi
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy. Ages 10-12.
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763. (Indian Captives) Ages 9-12
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Stumptown Kid
Author: Carol Gorman
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues. (Prejudice) Ages 9-12
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Summer of My German Soldier
Author: Bette Greene
Patty, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl, shelters an escaped German prisoner of war in Arkansas. (World War II) Ages 9-12
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Thin Wood Walls
Author: David Patneaude
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice. The final blow comes when they are sent to live in a Japanese internment camp in California until the war ends, and his brother leaves to fight on the side of the Allies. (Japanese American Internment- World War II) Ages 9-12
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Turtle in Paradise
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida. Ages 9-12
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
Author: Graham Salisbury
The bombing of Pearl Harbor drastically changes young Tomi's life as a Japanese boy growing up in Hawaii. (World War II) Ages 9-12
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Wagon Wheels
Author: Barbara Brenner
An African-American family settles in Kansas, taking advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act. (Pioneer Life) Ages 6-8
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Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
An African-American family from Michigan travels to Alabama during this turbulent summer. (Social Issues--1960s) Ages 9-12
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Willow Run
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Imagine being an 11 year old during the second World War. Your world is turning upside down. Your brother is in the Army and you haven’t gotten any mail from him in weeks. Your father decides to take a job building bombers in Michigan – a 4 day drive from your home – and Grandpa stays behind. It could be an adventure or a nightmare. (World War II) Ages 9-12
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Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Kit, recently moved to colonial Connecticut from Barbados, is unfamiliar with the Puritan way of life and accused of witchcraft. (Puritan Life) Ages 9-12
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With Every Drop of Blood
Author: James Lincoln Collier
Johnny is captured by an African-American Union soldier while trying to run a blockade and deliver food to the Confederates in Virginia. (Civil War) Ages 9-12
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Wonderstruck
Author: Brian Selznick
Ben, who recently lost his hearing, sets off to find his father. Rose, also deaf, begins her journey to find a much admired actress. Their two independent stories , Ben’s told in words and Rose’s in images, are set fifty years apart. As he did in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick skillfully knits together both children’s quest into a tale of loss, loneliness and finding a place to belong.
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