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Abby Takes a Stand
Author: Patricia McKissack
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she was ten years old and passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation. (African Americans) Ages 9-12
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Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Author: Cynthia C. DeFelice
Twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice after watching his whole family die of consumption in 1849. (Medicine) Ages 9-12
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Attack of the Turtle
Author: Drew Carlson
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare. (Revolutionary War) Ages 9-12
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Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Author: Karen Cushman
Twelve-year-old Lucy is unhappy with her family's relocation from Massachusetts to a mining town in California. (Gold Rush) Ages 9-12
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Baseball Saved Us
Author: Ken Mochizuki
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over. (Japanese American Internment-World War II) Ages 6-8
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Bessie Smith and the Night Riders
Author: Sue Stauffacher
If anyone can face down the Night Riders, its Bessie Smith! This story is based on a true incident in the life of this great African-American blues singer. (Prejudice) Ages 6-8
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Billy Creekmore
Author: Tracey Porter
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father. (Coal Mines) Ages 9-12
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Bread and Roses, Too
Author: Katherine Paterson
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. (Labor) Ages 9-12
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Cabin in the Snow
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
While Papa is off fighting on the Missouri border, Charlie is left in charge of the family in their remote cabin in Bleeding, Kansas and so must keep everyone safe when a fierce prairie blizzard growls and rages outside their door. (Pioneer Life) Ages 6-8
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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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Champions on the Bench
Author: E Weatherford, Carole Boston
This story is based upon the discrimination faced by the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars when the white teams refused to play them in the series tournament. (African Americans) Ages 6-8
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Coming On Home Soon
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
After Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with Grandma but misses her mother who loves her more than rain and snow. Every day they wait for a letter that says she'll be coming home. (African Americans) Ages 6-8
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Coolies
Author: Yin
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad. (Chinese Americans) Ages 6-8
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Daughter of Suqua
Author: Diane Johnston Hamm
Ten-year-old Ida worries about the future of her family and the Suquamish tribe when change comes to their Puget Sound village in the early 1900s. (Local History) Ages 9-12
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Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Twelve-year-old Austin writes letters to his younger brother describing the long journey from Pennsylvania to Oregon. (Pioneer Life) Ages 9-12
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Dragonwings
Author: Laurence Yep
Moon Shadow journeys from China to join his father in San Francisco in the early 1900s. (Chinese Americans) Ages 9-12
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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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Fair Weather
Author: Richard Peck
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and her siblings travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone. (Midwest) Ages 9-12
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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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Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution
Author: Seymour Reit
The daring Knox brothers set out in the dead of winter to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge. (Revolutionary War) Ages 9-12
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Hog Music
Author: M. C. Helldorfer
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois. (Pioneer Life) 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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Jimmy’s Stars
Author: Mary Ann Rodman
In 1943, eleven-year-old Ellie is her brother Jimmy's "best girl." When he leaves Pittsburgh just before Thanksgiving to fight in World War II, he promises to return, and asks her to leave the Christmas tree up until he does. (World War II) Ages 9-12
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Joining the Boston Tea Party
Author: Diane Stanley
With the help of their grandmother's hat, the Time-Traveling Twins journey back in time to the Boston Tea Party. (Colonial America) Ages 6-8
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Journey to Topaz
Author: Yoshika 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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Keeping Score
Author: Linda Sue Park
In Brooklyn, 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, a Dodgers fan, how to use a technique for keeping score at baseball games. A special friendship develops between the two. (Sports) Ages 9-12
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Leah's Pony
Author: Elizabeth Friedrich
A young girl parts with her beloved pony in an effort to save the family's farm during the Depression. (Farm Life) Ages 6-8
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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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Little Klein
Author: Anne Ylvisake
Harold "Little" Klein is so much smaller than his three older brothers, a boisterous gang held together by bighearted Mother Klein, that he often feels small and left out. When disaster strikes, it is up to Harold and LeRoy, the stray dog he has adopted, to save the day. (Family Life) Ages 9-12
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Lyddie
Author: Katherine Paterson
Impoverished Lyddie travels to Lowell, Massachusetts seeking independence, and becomes a factory girl. (Textile Workers) Ages 9-12
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Mama Went to Jail for the Vote
Author: Kathleen Karr
Susan Elizabeth’s mother is a suffragette who endures many hardships in the years-long fight to win the right for women to vote. (Women’s Rights) Ages 6-8
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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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Molly's Pilgrim
Author: Barbara Cohen
Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom. (Immigration) Ages 6-8
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Morning Girl
Author: Michael Dorris
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world. (Native Americans) 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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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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Night Boat to Freedom
Author: Margot Raven
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s. (Slavery) Ages 6-8
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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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Phoebe the Spy
Author: Judith Berry Griffin
During the Revolution, young Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City. (Revolutionary War) Ages 6-8
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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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Red Cap
Author: G. Clifton Wisler
A young Yankee drummer exhibits great courage despite being captured and sent to Andersonville Prison. (Civil War) 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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Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression
Author: Marissa Moss
Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935. (The Depression) Ages 6-8
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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 of the Great Houdini
Author: Robert Burleigh
As Sam and Uncle Ezra watch, the Great Houdini escapes from a trunk at the bottom of the river. Includes factual information about Houdini and his career as a magician and escape artist. (Magicians) Ages 6-8
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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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Sister Anne’s Hands
Author: Marybeth Lorbiecki
Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school. (Prejudice) Ages 6-8
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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: Caro 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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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Author: Kristin Levine
In Moundville, Alabama, 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black. Their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man. (Prejudice) Ages 9-12
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The Boy Who Saved Cleveland: Based on a True Story
Author: James Giblin
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. (Pioneer Life) Age 6-8
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The Bracelet
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship. (Japanese American Internment-WWII) Ages 6-8
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The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Author: Laurence Yep
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. (Chinese Americans) Ages 9-12
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The 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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The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Author: Suzanne Lieuance
After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant, survives a terrible fire at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories. (Textile Workers) Ages 9-12
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The Pig War
Author: Betty Baker
An easy-to-read account of how the death of a pig nearly caused a war between the Americans and the British in the Pacific Northwest. (Local History) Age 6-8
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The President’s Daughter
Author: Kimberly Bradley
A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901. (Presidents’ Children) Ages 9-12
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The 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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The Year of Miss Agnes
Author: Kirkpatrick Hill
Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athabascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher. (Native Americans) Ages 6-8
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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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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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Under the Quilt of Night
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
A young girl flees from the farm where she works as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north. (Slavery) Ages 6-8
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Wagon
Author: Tony Johnston
A young boy's joy in his family's release from slavery is cut short by the news of Lincoln's death. (Slavery) Ages 6-8
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Wagon Train: A Family Goes West in 1865
Author: Courtni Crump Wright
A caravan of recently freed African-American families sets out for California. (Pioneer Life) Ages 6-8
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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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Weasel
Author: Cynthia C. DeFelice
While spending the long winter of 1839 alone in the Ohio wilderness, eleven-year-old Nathan must confront Weasel, a renegade killer. (Pioneer Life) Ages 9-12
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When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Author: Amy Hest
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too. (Immigration) Ages 6-8
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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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Winnie's War
Author: Jenny Moss
Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family--her coffin-building father, her troubled mother, and her two baby sisters. (Epidemics) 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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