Fiction
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| Title: |
A Northern Light
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| Author: |
Jennifer Donnelly |
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It's 1906, and as 16-year-old Mattie struggles to make her way to college to be a writer, a summer job at an inn entangles her in a murder mystery. |
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| Title: |
After the Dancing Days
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| Author: |
Margaret I. Rostkowski |
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A friendship with a soldier wounded and disfigured in World War I forces Annie to face the realities of war and to question what it means to be a hero. |
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| Title: |
Al Capone Does My Shirts
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| Author: |
Gennifer Choldenko |
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In 1935, the last place on earth 12-year-old Moose Flanagan wants to live is Alcatraz Island, where he must take care of his sister and where his only friend is the prison wardens trouble-making daughter. |
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| Title: |
Annie, Between the States
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| Author: |
L. M. Elliott |
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Annie Sinclair can't imagine the war between the states lasting very long, but it begins to define her life as both Union and Confederate armies march across her family's Virginia farm and she begins to wonder where her own loyalties lie. |
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| Title: |
Ashes of Roses
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| Author: |
Mary Jane Auch |
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Having recently emigrated from Ireland to New York City, Rose Nolan is grateful -at first- when she finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. |
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| Title: |
Black Storm Comin'
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| Author: |
Diane Lee Wilson |
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Colton Weston, half black and half white, has to convincingly "pass" as white to become a Pony Express rider and deliver freedom papers to his aunt who is a runaway slave-or he might hang. |
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| Title: |
Calico Captive
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| Author: |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Before the French and Indian war, Miriam is captured in an Indian raid and taken to Montreal. Based on a true story. |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Panther's Path
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| Author: |
Elizabeth Alder |
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Half British and half Mohawk Billy Calder becomes Tecumseh's translator during the War of 1812 to help the Indians save their land from American settlers. Based on a true story. |
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| Title: |
Dawn Rider
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| Author: |
Jan Hudson |
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Sixteen-year-old Kit isn't anything special to her tribe until she tames the very first horse the men have ever captured and courageously rides it to protect her people from their enemies. |
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| Title: |
Destination Gold!
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| Author: |
Julie Lawson |
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The Klondike Gold Rush entices 16-year-old Ned Turner to head north, hoping to make his fortune so he can support his mother and sister in stylebut the trip is grueling and danger lurks. |
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| Title: |
Esperanza Rising
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| Author: |
Pam Muñoz Ryan |
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When her father is brutally murdered, 14-year-old Esperanza and her mother leave Mexico to work in a California migrant camp in the 1930s. |
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| Title: |
Fallen Angels
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| Author: |
Walter Dean Myers |
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Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry is sent to Vietnam and experiences firsthand the horrors of war. |
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| Title: |
Fever 1793
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| Author: |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Mattie Cook's comfortable life in Philadelphia in 1793 is torn apart by yellow fever. |
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| Title: |
Fire in the Hills
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| Author: |
Anna Myers |
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World War I changes 16-year-old Hallie Horton's Oklahoma farm life, taking her brother away to the army, forcing her German neighbors into hiding, and leaving Hallie to decide where her loyalties and her future lie. |
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| Title: |
Francie
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| Author: |
Karen English |
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Francie's spirited attitude assists her in surviving the bigotry, oppression, and poverty that she suffers as an African American living in the rural South during the early 1950s. |
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| Title: |
Grape Thief
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| Author: |
Kristine L. Franklin |
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In Washington State in 1925, 12-year-old Slava "Cuss" Petrovitch does his best to stay out of trouble, but when the annual Californian grape train comes through town he decides to join his friends in stealing some grapes and maybe hopping a ride. |
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| Title: |
How I Found the Strong
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| Author: |
Margaret McMullan |
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11-year-old Shanks feels left behind when his father and brother leave to fight in the Civil War, but he finds ample opportunity at their Mississippi homestead to learn what it takes to be a man. |
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| Title: |
Johnny Got His Gun
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| Author: |
Dalton Trumbo |
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A profoundly disfigured World War I British officer narrates his feelings as a "stump of a body" whose only choice is to become an education exhibit about the horrors of war. |
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| Title: |
Johnny Tremain
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| Author: |
Esther Forbes |
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What does a young, arrogant silversmith do in Boston in 1733 when his hand is so badly burned in a bowl of molten silver that it will never be of use again? |
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| Title: |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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| Author: |
Gary D. Schmidt |
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When Turner Buckminsters family moves to coastal Maine in 1912, Turner encounters a very different way of life and makes a special friend on the African American-populated Malaga Island. |
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| Title: |
Lyddie
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| Author: |
Katherine Paterson |
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Lyddie finds freedom, better wages, and hope in her job as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1843, but there's also a dark side to factory life. |
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| Title: |
Mississippi Trial, 1955
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| Author: |
Chris Crowe |
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The horrifying lynching of an African American teenager propels 16-year-old Hiram Hillburn toward an understanding of the deeply different views on race held by Hiram's father and grandfather. |
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| Title: |
Morning Girl
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| Author: |
Michael Dorris |
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Morning Girl and her brother, Star Boy, live idyllic lives of love, admiration and contentment on an island in the Caribbean in 1492-until the strangers arrive. |
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| Title: |
Once on This Island
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| Author: |
Gloria Whelan |
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When their father leaves to fight in the War of 1812, Mary and her siblings use grit and determination to keep their farm together on Makinac Island. |
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| Title: |
Streets of Gold
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| Author: |
Marie Raphael |
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When her younger sister and parents are turned away at Ellis Island, Marisia and her brother must survive alone as Polish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side in 1901. |
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| Title: |
The Land
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| Author: |
Mildred D. Taylor |
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Paul-Edward Logan is determined to become a landowner after the Civil War, despite the difficulties he faces as the son of a white plantation owner and a slave. |
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| Title: |
The Last Mission
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| Author: |
Harry Mazer |
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As a member of the onboard crew for a World War II bomber, Jack Raab is removed from the realities of war until his plane is shot down and he is taken prisoner by the Germans. |
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| Title: |
The River Between Us
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| Author: |
Richard Peck |
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As the Civil War begins, a steamboat from New Orleans brings two mysterious young ladies to a small Illinois town where the Pruitt family takes them in, changing their lives forever. |
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| Title: |
The Road Home
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| Author: |
Ellen Emerson White |
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Rebecca, a nurse on the frontlines of the Vietnam War, discovers the hardest journey of all takes place back home with her family. |
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| Title: |
The Winter People
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| Author: |
Joseph Bruchac |
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Saxso, a 14-year-old Abenaki boy, tracks the English rangers who attacked his village and took his mother and sister hostage during the French and Indian War. |
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| Title: |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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| Author: |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Kit finds mystery, danger and true love while living among her Puritan relatives in the 1697 Connecticut Colony. |
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| Title: |
Thousand Pieces of Gold
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| Author: |
Ruthanne Lum McCunn |
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Sold into slavery and brought to the United States, a young Chinese woman builds a life on the Northwest frontier. |
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| Title: |
Trouble Don't Last
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| Author: |
Shelley Pearsall |
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Eleven-year-old Samuel and his older companion, Harrison, escape from their cruel Kentucky slave master and struggle to survive on the harrowing Underground Railroad. |
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| Title: |
Uncommon Faith
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| Author: |
Trudy Krisher |
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In 19th century Massachusetts, Faith can't just stand by when she sees injustice, including slavery the limited roles of women in society. |
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| Title: |
Under the Blood-Red Sun
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| Author: |
Graham Salisbury |
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Tomis typical teenage life is turned upside down when Pearl Harbor is bombed in 1941 and his father and grandfather are taken away to a prison camp. |
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| Title: |
With Every Drop of Blood
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| Author: |
James Lincoln Collier |
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Fourteen-year-old white Rebel soldier, Johnny, is captured by Cush, a black Union soldier and runaway slave. |
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| Title: |
Wolf by the Ears
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| Author: |
Ann Rinaldi |
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Harriet has the privilege of being freed from slavery when she turns 21, but this means leaving the only home she has ever known, the household of Thomas Jefferson. |
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