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Ancient and
Medieval History |
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Secret of the Andes |
In this Newbery Award book, a young Inca boy searches for his
birthright and his identity. |
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Clark, Ann Nolan |
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J Fic CLA |
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Crossing Paradise |
When fifteen
year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl, is selected for a
pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to
London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, experiencing the
Crusades first hand. |
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Crossley-Holland,
Kevin |
|
J Fic CRO |
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The Door in the Wall |
Set in the 14th
century, the classic story of one boy’s personal heroism when he
loses the use of his legs. |
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de Angeli,
Marguerite |
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J Fic DEA |
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Run Far, Run Fast |
When the plague
comes to her medieval town, a young girl must flee to find
sanctuary in 1348 Europe. |
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Decker, Timothy |
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J Fic DEC |
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A
Company of Fools |
Henri is choir student in 1348 France. The choir singing helps
lift spirits during the Black Death. |
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Ellis,
Deborah |
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J Fic ELL |
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Rover |
Captured by
Vikings, young Hekja and her dog, Snarf, are taken to the Viking
settlement in Greenland, and then to Vinland, the mysterious,
short-lived Viking landfall in North America. There they find
many opportunities to prove their worth in the hard, competitive
society into which they have been adopted. |
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French, Jackie |
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J Fic FRE |
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Adam of the Road |
When Adam is separated from his minstrel father and his dog, he
begins a search which takes him to London, Winchester, and
Oxford, where they are reunited. |
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Gray, Elizabeth
Janet |
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J Fic GRA |
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Orphan of the
Sun |
In 1169 B.C., suspected of witchery and assumed to be ungrateful,
Meryt must find her own way to happiness as she uncovers
mysteries the rest of the village is too preoccupied to
acknowledge. |
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Harvey, Gill |
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J Fic HAR |
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The
Last Girls of Pompeii |
During the summer of A.D. 79, Julia
and her slave, Sura, live different lives in Pompeii, yet are
both "prisoners" of society. When Mt. Vesuvius erupts, their
fates are forever altered, forcing them to both face the true
meaning of freedom. |
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Lasky, Kathryn |
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J Fic LAS |
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The
Ugly Goddess |
Three teens get caught up in the
turmoil of 523 B.C. Egypt. |
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Marston, Elsa |
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J Fic MAR |
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Bound |
In a novel based on
Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing
endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly
mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. |
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Napoli, Donna |
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J Fic NAP |
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The Master
Puppeteer |
A young apprentice puppeteer searches
for a mysterious bandit in feudal Japan. |
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Paterson,
Katherine |
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J Fic PAT |
|
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Of Nightingales
That Weep |
A Samurai's daughter, Takiko, is sent
to the royal court when her mother remarries in feudal Japan. |
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Paterson,
Katherine |
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J Fic PAT |
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The Bronze Bow |
A Jewish boy seeks revenge against the
Romans who killed his parents. Winner of Newbery Award 1962. |
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Speare, Elizabeth |
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J Fic SPE |
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The Battle for
Duncragglin |
With three newfound friends, twelve
year-old Alex sets out to discover the secret of a sealed cave
along the rugged coast that borders his family's farm when they
are catapulted to the very brink of a hellish past--bloody 13th
century Scotland. |
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Vanderwal, Andrew
H. |
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J Fic VAN |
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Pre-Colonial Period |
Pedro's
Journal: A Voyage
with Christopher Columbus |
The cabin boy on the Santa Maria keeps
a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus
on his fist voyage to the New World in 1492. |
|
Conrad, Pam |
|
J Fic CON |
|
Leonardo's
Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as
Leonardo Da Vinci's
Servant |
Fifteen year-old Giacomo, servant to
Leonardo Da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish
painting "The Last Supper" while also trying to find clues to
his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late
fifteenth century Milan. |
|
Grey, Christopher |
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J Fic GRE |
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Colonial Period |
Squanto, Friend of the
Pilgrims |
Squanto goes to London in the early 1600's and learns about the
white man's culture. He wants to return to his own people, and
Captain John Smith takes him back to America in 1614. As soon as
he arrives, another captain kidnaps him and takes him to Spain to
sell into Slavery. Because he speaks English, he gains his
freedom, and in 1619 he again returns home. |
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Bulla, Clyde
Robert |
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J B SQU |
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Raleigh's
Page |
In the late 16th century, fifteen
year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself
as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia,
where he helps to establish relations with the Indians. |
|
Armstrong, Alan |
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J Fic ARM |
|
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The Matchlock Gun |
Edward, 10, has to help his mother defend their home in 1757 while
his father is away fighting the Indians. |
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Edmonds, Walter |
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J Fic EDM |
|
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The 13th Floor |
In this historical fantasy, a distress message on
the answering machine calls
Buddy and his sister Liz, to a building that has no 13th floor.
Then Buddy finds himself aboard The Laughing Mermaid, boat of an
ancestor who was a privateer, and Liz ends up in Boston during
1692, where she must save another ancestor from a witch hunter,
allowing the family line to continue. |
|
Fleischman, Sid |
|
J Fic FLE |
|
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Johnny Tremain |
Johnny is very proud of the beautiful silver designs he created
during his apprenticeship but after an accident with the silver
that damages his hand he can no longer work. As the American
Revolution begins he starts to help the movement towards
independence any way that he can. |
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Forbes, Esther |
|
J Fic FOR |
|
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The Captive |
As the son of a powerful Ashanti chief, Kofi has lived a sheltered
existence, but a slave trader put an end to his happiness. |
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Hansen, Joyce |
|
J Fic HAN |
|
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Season
of Promise |
A glimpse of Colonial Life through
they eyes of a young girl. |
|
Hermes, Patricia |
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J Fic HER |
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Stowaway |
Young stowaway's journal relates
experiences from aboard the Endeavor between 1768 to 1771 which
sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. |
|
Hesse, Karen |
|
J Fic HES |
|
|
Worlds
Apart |
In 1670, soon after
arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England,
fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian,
Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and
friendship. |
|
Karr, Kathleen |
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J Fic KAR |
|
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A Journey to the New World |
When Mem is 12, she and her family sail on the Mayflower to the
New World. She writes in her journal beginning on October 1,
1620, and ends it on November 10, 1621, as she watched another
ship come into the harbor and hopes that a girl her age will be
arriving soon. |
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Lasky, Kathryn |
|
J Fic LAS |
|
|
The
House of Windjammer |
In
the autumn of 1636, tulip fever is sweeping Amsterdam, and
Europe's fortunes rise and fall with the promise of the New World.
The great Dutch family of Windjammer suffers the loss
of their entire trading fleet and they face certain ruin. The only
person who can save the family's home, fortune, and reputation is
Adam, the family's young heir.
|
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Richardson,
V. |
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J Fic RIC |
|
|
A
Pickpocket's Tale |
When Molly, a ten
year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in
1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured
servant for a New York city family that expects her to follow
their Jewish traditions. |
|
Schwabach, Karen |
|
J Fic SCH |
|
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The Sign of the Beaver |
After the French and Indian Wars, a young boy is raised by
Indians. |
|
Speare, Elizabeth
George |
|
J Fic SPE |
|
|
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Kit Tyler's wild ways lead to problems in witch
conscious Colonial Connecticut. |
|
Speare,
Elizabeth George |
|
J Fic SPE |
|
|
Revolutionary Period |
|
Chains |
After being sold to a cruel couple in
New York, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the
American Revolution for a chance to gain her freedom. |
|
Anderson, Laurie
Halse |
|
J Fic AND |
|
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The Fighting
Ground |
Jonathan marches off to fight the
British and he is only thirteen-years-old. |
|
Avi |
|
J Fic AVI |
|
|
Attack of the Turtle |
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. |
|
Carlson, Drew |
|
J Fic CAR |
|
|
My Brother Sam is Dead |
A young boy tells of the tragic events leading up to his brother's
death in the Revolutionary War. |
|
Collier, James
Lincoln |
|
J Fic COL |
|
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Give Me
Liberty |
The life of thirteen year-old
Nathaniel Dunn changes drastically while serving as an
indentured servant in colonial Virginia during the start of the
American revolution. |
|
Elliiot, L. M. |
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J Fic ELL |
|
|
The Cabin Faced
West |
General Washington visits Ann in the
lonely Pennsylvania territory of 1784. |
|
Fritz, Jean |
|
J Fic FRI |
|
|
This Time,
Tempe Wick? |
Revolutionary soldiers camp out on
Tempe Wick's farm whom she helps until they try to steal her
horse. |
|
Gauch, Patricia Lee |
|
J Fic FRI |
|
Five Smooth
Stones:
Hope's Diary |
In her diary, a young girl writes
about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the
American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776. |
|
Gregory, Kristiana |
|
J Fic GRE |
|
|
Seventeenth Century |
|
Sacrifice |
Two sisters, ages
ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Adover,
Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison
while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain
their freedom. |
|
Duble, Kathleen
Benner |
|
J Fic DUB |
|
|
The Walls of
Cartagena |
Thirteen year-old
Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth century Caribbean
city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest and
befriends two slaves whom he attempts to help to escape. |
|
Durango, Julia |
|
J Fic DUR |
|
|
Time of the
Witches |
When a new
reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba,
life takes a strange turn for Drucilla and her best friend,
Gabe, as young girls begin to fall ill and accusations of
witchcraft begin to swirl. |
|
Myers, Anna |
|
J Fic MYE |
|
|
Fearless |
In late
seventeenth century England, eleven year-old Digory, forced to
leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an
apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley who built a
lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef, the very rocks
that sank his father's ship. |
|
Woodruff, Elvira |
|
J Fic WOO |
|
|
Eighteenth Century |
The Lacemaker
and
the Princess |
In 1788, eleven
year-old Isabelle becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's
daughter and finds her friendship tested not only by their
social class, but also by the growing political unrest of the
French. |
|
Bradley, Kimberly
Brubaker |
|
J Fic BRA |
|
The Boy who Saved
Cleveland: based on
a true story |
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. |
|
Giblin, James |
|
J Fic GIB |
|
How the
Hangman
Lost his Heart |
When her Uncle
Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in
1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public
viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper
burial, finding an unlikely ally in the soft-hearted
executioner. |
|
Grant, K. M. |
|
J Fic GRA |
|
|
Three Names |
A little boy at the end of the eighteenth century goes to school
via prairie roads in a horse-drawn wagon, and his dog, Three
Names, always goes with him. Although he enjoys the summer, he
looks forward to school because he can see his friends. |
|
MacLachlan,
Patricia |
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E MAC |
|
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Grandmother Bryant's Pocket |
Sarah, eight in 1787, enjoys playing on her Maine farm with her
dog, but Patches dies in a fire that also burns down the barn.
Sarah becomes distraught, and her parents send her to stay with
her grandmother. |
|
Martin, Jacqueline |
|
E MAR |
|
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My Name is Not
Angelica |
A young Senegalese girl participates
in the slave revolt of 1733 - 1734 on the Caribbean island of St.
John where she is a slave to the Danish. |
|
O'Dell, Scott |
|
J Fic ODE |
|
|
Ghost
Ship |
An eighteenth-century
figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and
supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old
Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set
right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in
the past. |
|
Reiche, Dietlof |
|
J Fic REI |
|
|
The
Color of Fire |
In 1741, America is at war with
Catholic Spain and someone is setting fires in New York City
causing mass hysteria and mistrust amongst the populous. |
|
Rinaldi, Ann |
|
J Fic RIN |
|
|
Red River
Girl |
In a diary covering the years 1846 to
1848, a young Metis teenager describes her journey from St.
Eustace, Québec, to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she settles with
her family and decides to become a teacher. |
|
Sommerdorf, Norma |
|
J Fic SOM |
|
|
Sam Bennett's
New Shoes |
Sam is excited about getting new
shoes, and as he grows into the shoes, he becomes old enough to
help his father on the farm, eventually becoming a farmer
himself. |
|
Thermes, Jennifer |
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E THE |
|
The
Ravenmaster's Secret:
Escape From the Tower of
London |
The eleven-year-old son
of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite
rebel being held prisoner there. |
|
Woodruff, Elvira |
|
J Fic WOO |
|
|
Prince Across
the Water |
In 1746, a year after the Scottish
clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles
Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen
year-old epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run
away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh
reality of war. |
|
Yolen, Jane |
|
J Fic YOL |
|
|
Nineteenth Century |
The True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle |
An adventure story set in the 1850's about a 13-year-old girl and
her voyage to America on a ship with a murderous crew. |
|
Avi |
|
J Fic AVI |
|
|
Geronimo |
After years of standing against the
U.S. government, the great warrior and spiritual leader
Geronimo's life is coming to an end as his grandson visits him
in Fort Sill, OK, where he has been imprisoned since 1886. |
|
Bruchac, Joseph |
|
J Fic BRU |
|
|
Elijah of Buxton |
In 1859, eleven year-old Elijah
Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, uses his
wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher
who has stolen money. |
|
Curtis, Chistopher
Paul |
|
J Fic CUR |
|
|
Rodzina |
12-year-old
Rodzina boards a train on a cold day in March 1881. She's
reluctant to leave Chicago, the only home she can remember, and
she knows there's no substitute for the family she has lost. She
expects to be adopted and turned into a slave—or worse, not to be
adopted at all. |
|
Cushman, Karen |
|
J Fic CUS |
|
Powder
Monkey:
Adventures of a Young Sailor |
Thirteen-year-old
Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never
realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until
he is pressed into service aboard HMS Miranda. |
|
Dowswell, Paul |
|
J Fic DOW |
|
|
Hearts of
Iron |
In early 1800's
Connecticut, fifteen year-old Lucy tries to decide whether to
marry her childhood friend who unhappily toils at the Mt. Riga
iron furnace or the young man from Boston who has come to work
in her father's store. |
|
Duble, Kathleen
Benner |
|
J Fic DUB |
|
|
The Game of Silence |
In 1849, the life of nine year-old
Omakayas is drastically changed when the "white men" want the
Ojibwe tribe to leave their island home on Lake Superior and
move further west. |
|
Erdrich, Louise |
|
J Fic ERD |
|
|
Fire in the
Hole! |
A claustrophobic
boy dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman
rather than a miner like his father, but when all union miners
in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick develops
new respect for his father while taking over responsibility for
his family. |
|
Farrell, Mary
Cronk |
|
J Fic FAR |
|
|
A
House of Tailors |
When thirteen-year-old
Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is
to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she
survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his
young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her
home. |
|
Giff, Patricia
Reilly |
|
J Fic GIF |
|
|
Old Yeller |
When Travis is 14 during the 1860's, his father departs for
Florida and leaves him in charge of the Texas homestead. When an
old dog arrives, his brother and mother want to keep it, calling
it "Old Yeller." Although Travis does not want the dog, Old Yeller
saves him from wild hogs. However, a wild wolf bites Old Yeller,
and Travis must kill him because he develops rabies. |
|
Gipson, Fred |
|
J Fic GIP |
|
|
Chase |
In the coal mining region of
mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a
murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a
horse with the instincts of a bloodhound. |
|
Haas, Jessie |
|
J Fic HAA |
|
|
Torchlight |
In 1864, fifth grader Charlotte
befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to
understand the prejudices between the Irish and the "Yankees" in
her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. |
|
Hurst, Carol Otis |
|
J Fic HUR |
|
|
The
Star of Kazan |
After twelve-year-old
Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna,
inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her
aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely
decrepit mansion in Germany. |
|
Ibbotson, Eva |
|
J Fic IBB |
|
|
Worth |
After breaking his leg,
eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the
family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father
brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even
worse. Winner 2005 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical
Fiction. |
|
LaFaye, A. |
|
J Fic LAF |
|
Day
of Tears: A Novel
in Dialogue |
Emma has taken care of
the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left.
Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over
slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off
debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly
including Emma. |
|
Lester, Julius |
|
J Fic LES |
|
|
Letters from a Slave Girl |
In a fictionalized account told entirely through letters "written"
by Harriot Jacobs, an African American child born into slavery,
Mary Lyons portrays a life of courage, hope and great injustice. |
|
Lyons, Mary E. |
|
J Fic LYO |
|
|
When I
Crossed No-Bob |
Ten years after
the Civil War's end, twelve year-old Addy, abandoned by her
parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by
schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father
returns to claim her she must find a way to leave her
"O'Donnell" past behind. |
|
McMullan, Margaret |
|
J Fic MCM |
|
|
The King of
Mulberry Street |
In 1892, Dom, a
nine year-old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York
and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big
city. |
|
Napoli, Donna Jo |
|
J Fic NAP |
|
|
Nightjohn |
Twelve-year-old Sarny's life is changed when one of her fellow
slaves teaches her to read even though her teacher risks his life
every time he teaches her. |
|
Paulsen, Gary |
|
J Fic PAU |
|
|
Trouble Don't
Last |
Samuel, an eleven
year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who
helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the
Underground Railroad. |
|
Pearsall, Shelley |
|
J Fic PEA |
|
|
The Invasion
of Sandy Bay |
In 1814, as the
War of 1812 rages, twelve year-old Lemuel Brooks tries to save
the sleeping fishing village of Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, from
British invaders. |
|
Sanchez, Anita |
|
J Fic SAN |
|
|
The Circlemaker |
Rather than let the Russian troops force him into the army,
Mendel, a 12-year-old Jewish boy, runs away and is helped by an
underground network that provides him with false papers and helps
him to make his to America. |
|
Schur, Maxine Rose |
|
J Fic SCH |
|
|
Grasslands |
Thomas lives with
his wealthy grandparents in Virginia but his newly married father
asks him to come and live with him in the West. Thomas must
learn to deal with hard work and sibling rivalry. Will he
choose to remain with his father or return to his grandparents? |
|
Seely, Debra |
|
J Fic SEE |
|
|
Ice Drift |
Two Inuit brothers must
fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift
in the Greenland Strait. (1868) |
|
Taylor, Theodore |
|
J Fic TAY |
|
|
Jeremy Visick |
When Matthew first sees the Visick family gravestone while doing a
class assignment, he notes the 12-year-old Jeremy's body is not in
the grave, but in the local mine, victim of a mining accident. He
is drawn back in time and follows Jeremy into the mine where he
narrowly escapes death. |
|
Wiseman, David |
|
J Fic WIS |
|
|
American Civil War |
|
Charley Skedaddle |
A young deserter from the Union army finds out the
true meaning of courage in
the Virginia mountains. |
|
Beatty, Patricia |
|
J Fic BEA |
|
|
Caddie Woodlawn |
Unaffected by the American Civil War in 1864--her
father having paid someone to fight for him--Caddie enjoys playing
with the boys. When 11, she realizes that her "prissy" female
cousin may be reasonable. Having no alternatives, Caddie accepts
the standards appropriate for females, and her family members show
loyalty to their Indian friends and their patriotism toward
America. |
|
Brink, Carol Ryre |
|
J Fic BRI |
|
|
The Story of
Jonas |
The time is 1859 and slavery persists
as a fundamental institution in America on the eve of the Civil
War. Jonas is a young slave who has been sent west from his home
in Missouri to help his master's cruel son search for gold, and
realizes that there is more to life than being someone's
man-servant. |
|
Dahlberg, Maurine
F. |
|
J Fic DAH |
|
My Last
Skirt: The Story
of Jennie Hodgers,
Union Soldier |
Enjoying the freedom afforded to her
while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after
emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th
Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in
the American Civil War. |
|
Durrant, Lynda |
|
J Fic DUR |
|
|
Gabriel's
Horses |
In Kentucky, during the Civil War,
twelve year-old Gabriel contends with a cruel horse trainer and
skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of
becoming a jockey. |
|
Hart, Alison |
|
J Fic HAR |
|
|
Scrib |
In 1863, a
sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West
making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation
that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a
criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and
delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute
Indian. |
|
Ives, David |
|
J Fic IVE |
|
|
Exiled:
Memoirs of a Camel |
A first-person
narrative from a camel's viewpoint about being sent from Egypt to
serve in the United States Camel Corps, and life on the Mojave
Desert before and during the Civil War.
(1856) |
|
Karr,
Kathleen |
|
J Fic KAR |
|
|
Rifles for Watie |
Jeff, a Union soldier, learns about the realities of war when he
becomes a spy. |
|
Keith, Harold |
|
J Fic KEI |
|
|
How I Found the
Strong |
Frank Russell, known as
Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to
fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences
with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave,
Buck, change his thinking. |
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McMullan, Margaret |
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J Fic MAC |
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Before the
Creeks Ran Red |
Through the eyes
of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the
tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina
and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War. |
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Reeder, Carolyn |
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J Fic REE |
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Shades of Gray |
Immediately after the Civil War young Will must live with an uncle
whom he considers a coward because he would not fight in the war. |
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Reeder, Carolyn |
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J Fic REE |
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The Deep Cut |
Considered "slow"
by his father, Lonzo tries his best to help his family in
Culpeper, Virginia, during the Civil War, and in the process
comes to some decisions about how to live his life. |
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Spain, Susan
Rosson |
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J Fic SPA |
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Pioneer Life |
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Black-Eyed Susan |
Susie, 10, and her father try to entice her mother with a gift to
make her like the vast prairie on which they live. But her mother
stays inside the sod house, refusing to look at the land. |
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Armstrong,
Jennifer |
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J Fic ARM |
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The Barn |
Set in 1855 in the Oregon Territory, The Barn is a story of trying
to fulfill a dying father's last wish. Nine-year-old Ben and his
sister and brother, Nettie and Harrison, construct a barn entirely
on their own in hopes that it will restore their father's health. |
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Avi |
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J Fic AVI |
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple |
Lucy is no stranger to heartache yet she recounts
her New England family's move to a California gold rush town with
verve and wit. |
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Cushman, Karen |
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J Fic CUS |
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Journey Home |
Maggie, 12, and Annie, 7, are Irish Catholic orphans who travel on
the orphan train of the Children's Aid Society to Kansas in the
late 1800's They have to adjust to the parents who adopt them, to
the strange customs, and to a new religion. |
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Holland, Isabelle |
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J Fic HOL |
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Grasshopper Summer |
Sam and his family journey to the Dakota Territories in 1874 to
begin a new life. |
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Turner, Ann |
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J Fic TUR |
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Bound for Oregon |
A fictionalized account of the journey of nine-year-old Mary Ellen
Todd and her family along the Oregon Trail in 1852. |
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Van Leeuwen, Jean |
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J Fic VAN |
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The West |
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Lucky Jake |
When Jake and Pa find a gold nugget
big enough to buy a pet, there aren’t any dogs to be found, so
Jake gets a pig, and he names him Dog. As luck would have it for
Pa and Jake, Dog has a nose for finding good fortune. |
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Addy, Sharon Hart |
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E ADD |
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Letters from the
Corrugated
Castle: A Novel of Gold
Rush California, 1850-1852 |
A series of letters and newspaper
articles reveals life in California in the 1850's, especially
for thirteen year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as
an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco,
and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold. |
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Blos, Joan W. |
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J Fic BLO |
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Geronimo |
After years of standing against the
U.S. government, the great warrior and spiritual leader
Geronimo's life is coming to an end as his grandson visits him
in Fort Sill, OK, where he has been imprisoned since 1886. |
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Bruchac, Joseph |
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J Fic BRU |
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Riddle in the
Mountain |
Three children,
transported to 1879, must solve a mystery involving Cornish
folklore, magic and the mining era of the American West before
they can return home. |
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Burkhard, Daryl |
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J Fic BUR |
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Jim Ugly |
Jake, 12, begins his story at his father's 1894 burial in the Old
West when her tries to get his father's dog, Jim Ugly, to follow
him. The uninterested dog leads Jake instead. He shows Jake that
his father is still alive but hiding from someone who wants to
kill him for diamonds that Jake's father does not have. |
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Fleischman, Sid |
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J Fic FLE |
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Gentleman Outlaw
and Me—Eli: a story of
the Old West |
Eliza, 12 in
1887, runs away from cruel relatives to Tinville, Colorado, where
she looks for her missing father. After a tramp approaches her,
she disguises herself as a boy. She meets Calvin, 18, who calls
himself the "Gentleman Outlaw." He also goes to Tinville in
search of the sheriff who shot his father in the back. |
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Hahn, Mary Downing |
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J Fic HAH |
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Exiled:
Memoirs of a Camel |
A first-person
narrative from a camel's viewpoint about being sent from Egypt to
serve in the United States Camel Corps, and life on the Mojave
Desert before and during the Civil War.
|
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Karr,
Kathleen |
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J Fic KAR |
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Lone Star: a story
of the Texas Rangers |
After Comanche Indians attack his family, Clay wants to become a
Texas ranger so that he can take revenge. But when he sees two
rangers unnecessarily kill a young girl and an old Comanche, he
realizes that learning how to heal people is better than trying to
seek revenge. |
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Kudlinski,
Kathleen |
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J Fic KUD |
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Sing Down the Moon |
The tragic forced march of the Indians to Fort Sumner in 1864,
told by a young Navajo girl. |
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O’Dell, Scott |
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J Fic ODE |
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A
Bag of Lucky Rice |
Set in an early
1900's Nevada mining town. Rusty finds a strongbox full of gold.
Now add the Dalton Gang and an earthquake to stir thing up. |
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Reichart,
George |
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J Fic REI |
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Bear Dancer:
the story
of a Ute girl |
In late
nineteenth-century Colorado, Elk Dress Girl, sister of Ute chief
Ouray, is captured by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, rescued by
the white "enemy," and finally returned to her home. |
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Wyss,
Thelma |
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J Fic WYS |
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Early Twentieth Century to World War I |
|
Firefly Summer |
At a plantation in rural Puerto Rico
around the turn of the century the foreman pursues the mystery
surrounding his family. |
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Belpré, Pura |
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J Fic BEL |
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The Rising
Star of Rusty Nail |
In the small town of Rusty Nail,
Minnesota, in the early 1950's, musically talented ten year-old
Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer, Olga
Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a
communist spy. |
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Blume, Lesley M.
M. |
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J Fic BLU |
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Boy of the
Border |
Twelve year-old Miguel Del Monte joins
his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los
Angeles determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to
deal with the anticipated hardships. |
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Bontemps, Arna |
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J Fic BON |
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Emil and Karl |
During 1940 in Vienna, Austria, two
nine year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and
best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even
closer together as they fight to survive and escape. |
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Glatshteyn, Yankev |
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J Fic GLA |
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Penny from
Heaven |
As she turns twelve during the summer
of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family
while also learning a secret about her father's death. |
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Holm, Jennifer L. |
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J Fic HOL |
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Catch a Tiger
by the Toe |
Twelve year-old Jamie is like most
girls in the 1950's, but unlike those girls she has a family
secret to hide that once exposed, will change her life forever. |
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Levine, Ellen |
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J Fic LEV |
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Shackleton's
Stowaway |
On October 26, 1914, Ernest
Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of
the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the
Antarctic continent, with one unaccounted for passenger. |
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McKernan, Victoria |
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J Fic MCK |
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Billy
Creekmore |
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, exchanging his dreary life
of being alone to working in the coal mines. |
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Porter, Tracey |
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J Fic POR |
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After the
Dancing Days |
A forbidden friendship with a badly
disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces
thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to
question conventional ideas of patriotism. |
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Rostkowski,
Margaret I. |
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J Fic ROS |
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Coyote School
News |
Fourth grader Monchi Ramirez and the
other students at Coyote School produce their own school
newspaper describing the events of their school year in 1938. |
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Sandin, Joan |
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J Fic SAN |
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Lizzie Bright
and the
Buckminister Boy |
Turner Buckminster
hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine (1912), but things improve when
he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island
community founded by former slaves that the town fathers and
Turner's want to change into a tourist spot. Newbery and
Printz Honor Book. |
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Schmidt, Gary |
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J Fic SKU |
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Good-bye, Billy Radish |
Against the backdrop of the United States entering World War I,
two young boys of different backgrounds develop a deep friendship. |
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Skurzynski, Gloria |
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J Fic SKU |
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Elena |
A Mexican American girl recounts how
her mother moved the family to America during the Mexican
Revolution. |
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Stanley, Diane |
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J Fic PAT |
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Listening for
Lions |
Left an orphan
after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918,
thirteen year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased
neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream
is to return to Africa and rebuild her parent's mission
hospital. |
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Whelan, Gloria |
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J Fic WHE |
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The Earth
Dragon Awakes:
The San Francisco
Earthquake
of 1906 |
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. |
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Yep, Laurence |
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J Fic YEP |
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Great Depression |
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Saving
Grace |
The McFarland
family has been hit hard by the Great Depression. Grace, eleven, and her two
younger brothers are sent temporarily to a children's home. Her
stay at the mission is cut short when she is invited to spend the
holidays with the Hammonds, where they treat her like a daughter.
What will happen when it's time for Grace to go home? |
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Cummings,
Priscilla |
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J Fic CUM |
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|
Bamboo Flute |
In a rural Australian community
in 1932, twelve-year-old Paul has his predictable life brightened
when a drifter helps him make a flute and teaches him how to play
it. |
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Disher, Garry |
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J Fic DIS |
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El Lector |
Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a
lector just like her grandfather. All day long he sits on a
special platform in the cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida,
reading books, newspapers, and current events to workers as they
roll the cigars. But now times are changing and it’s up to Bella
to determine her future and help her people preserve their
history. |
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Durbin, William |
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Fic DUR |
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Leah's Pony |
Jake narrates the story of his
family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their
ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression. |
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Friedrich,
Elizabeth |
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E FRI |
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The Storm in
the Barn |
Jack Clark is
a shy 11-year-old whose father thinks he's useless at practical
chores. The boy is not used to having any responsibilities, so
when he sees a dark figure lurking in an abandoned barn near
their house, he doesn't want to do anything about it. He'd
rather chalk it up to “dust dementia,” until he realizes that
the brooding shape is the rain. |
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Phelan, Matt |
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J Fic PHE |
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|
Mississippi Bridge |
During a heavy
rainstorm in 1930's rural Mississippi, an astonished Jeremy
Simms--white, ten years old, and a neighbor of the Logan
family--watches a bus driver order black passengers off the bus to
make room for white riders. Just outside of town the bus crossed
a raging creek at high speed, smashes through the railing of the
old bridge, and tumbles into the water. Jeremy joins others in an
attempt to rescue survivors, but there are none. |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
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J Fic TAY |
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|
Dust for Dinner |
Jake narrates
the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the
journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great
Depression. |
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Turner, Ann Warren |
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E TUR |
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World War II |
Who Was That Masked
Man, Anyway? |
Franklin D. Wattleson and Mario Calvino are next-door neighbors
and best friends, even though Frankie's radio adventure shows--the
Green Hornet, the Lone Ranger, the Shadow--spill into his ordinary
1945 life and out through his imaginary persona, Chet Barker with
his faithful sidekick, Skipper O'Malley. |
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Avi |
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J Fic AVI |
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Code
Talker: a novel about
the Navajo Marines of
World War II |
After being taught in a
boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language,
Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to
become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their
native tongue. |
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Bruchac,
Joseph |
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J Fic BRU |
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|
The Klipfish
code |
When
twelve-year-old Marit discovers a wounded Norwegian Resistance
soldier with a secret message that may drive the hated Nazis out
forever, she must choose between saving him or turning him in to
the Germans. |
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Casanova, Mary |
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J Fic CAS |
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Dawn of Fear |
Three boys in a London Suburb become friends amid the violence of
World War II. |
|
Cooper, Susan |
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J Fic COO |
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Jacob's Rescue:
a Holocaust story |
An incredible story about two families who show great courage and
share a desire for peace during the Nazi occupation of Poland. |
|
Drucker, Malka |
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J Fic DRU |
|
|
The Winter
War |
When Russian
troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939, Marko, a young
polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the
Finnish Army as a messenger boy. |
|
Durbin, William |
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J Fic DUR |
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|
Born to Fly |
Eleven year-old
tomboy Bird McGill and her classmate, Kenji Fujita, whom
everyone believes to be a Japanese spy, accidentally discover
real spy activity that will shake their hometown and may even
change the future of the United States. |
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Ferrari, Michael |
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J Fic FER |
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|
Lily's Crossing |
Two children spend the summer of 1944 in quiet Rockaway Beach, New
York, where they share their secrets, lies, and worries about the
war. |
|
Giff, Patricia
Reilly |
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J Fic GIF |
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|
Blue |
When teenager Ann
Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier
father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in
the face of personal tragedy and the 1940's polio epidemic in
North Carolina. |
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Hostetter, Joyce |
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J Fic HOS |
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|
But No Candy |
While her Uncle
Ted is off fighting in World War II, Lee watches the candy
gradually disappear from the shelves of her family's store and
realizes that her entire world has changed. |
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Houston, Gloria |
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E HOU |
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Weedflower |
After twelve
year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated
from their flower farm in southern California to an internment
camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she becomes
friends with a local Indian boy amongst the chaos of a a racial
divide. |
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Kadohata, Cynthia |
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J Fic KAD |
|
|
The Green
Glass Sea |
It is 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New
Mexico, to live with her mathematician father who resides in Los
Alamos, a town that, officially, doesn't exist. |
|
Klages, Ellen |
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J Fic KLA |
|
Young Fu of
the Upper Yangtze |
In this Newbery Medal winner set in pre-World War II China, a
young boy and his mother move from the countryside to Chung King. |
|
Lewis, Elizabeth
Foreman |
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J Fic LEW |
|
|
The Art of
Keeping Cool |
In 1942, Robert
and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while
staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they
also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of
being a spy. |
|
Lisle, Janet
Taylor |
|
J Fic LIS |
|
|
Number the Stars |
When Nazi occupation makes life increasingly
dangerous for Ellen and her family, Annmarie's family risks their
own safety to help their friends to escape. |
|
Lowry, Lois |
|
J Fic LOW |
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|
Magnifico |
The accordion
seems just another challenge to Mariangela's already complex
life as the child of Italian immigrants to Canada during World
War II. However, through the accordion, Mariangela learns a lot
about her accordion teacher, her family's past, and herself. |
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Miles, Victoria |
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J Fic MIL |
|
|
Fire in the
Hills |
Upon returning to
Italy and trying to get back home, fourteen year-old Roberto
struggles to survive, first on his own and then as a member of
the resistance, fighting against Nazi occupiers. |
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Napoli,
Donna Jo |
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J Fic NAP |
|
|
The Island on Bird Street |
An 11-year-old boy tries to survive in an empty Polish ghetto
during World War II. |
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Orlev, Uri |
|
J Fic ORL |
|
|
David and the Mighty Eighth |
When, during the London Blitz, he and
his older sister are evacuated to go live on their grandparents'
East Anglia farm, a young boy finds it difficult to adjust to
his new life until the arrival of the U.S. Eight Air Force at a
nearby airfield brings excitement, friendship, and hope for the
future. |
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Parker, Marjorie
Hodgson |
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J Fic PAR |
|
|
The Quilt |
During World War II,
while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working
in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother
in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on
events from the author's life. |
|
Paulsen, Gary |
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J Fic PAU |
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|
House of the Red Fish |
It has been a year
since Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's
father and grandfather, and Tomi tries to find a way to salvage
the family's sunken fishing boat while dealing with
anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii. |
|
Salisbury, Graham |
|
J Fic SAL |
|
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Elephant Run |
Nick and his
friend Mya plan a daring escape as they endure servitude,
beatings, and more after Nick's British father's plantation in
Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941. |
|
Smith, Roland |
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J Fic SMI |
|
|
Hide and Seek |
Rachel, eight years old when the story begins, observes life as a
Jewish child during the Nazi occupation of Holland. |
|
Vos, Ida |
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J Fic VOS |
|
|
Anna is Still Here |
Anna is having a hard time adjusting to life at the end of the
war. She was hidden in an attic for three years all alone. Her
parents have survived, but will not speak of their experiences. |
|
Vos, Ida |
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J Fic VOS |
|
|
The
Coastwatcher |
While eleven
year-old Hugh, his family, and his cousin Tom are spending the
summer of 1943 on the South Carolina shore to escape the polio
epidemic, Hugh uncovers clues that point to a German plot to
sabotage a nearby naval base. |
|
Weston, Elise |
|
J Fic WES |
|
|
Someone Named Eva
|
Eleven year-old
Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in
1942, to a school in Poland with other blond, blue-eyed children
to be brainwashed and trained as "proper Germans." |
|
Wolf, Joan M. |
|
J Fic WOL |
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|
Civil Rights Movement |
The Watsons Go to
Birmingham 1963 |
Hoping that time with his grandmother will straighten Byron out,
his parents load up their car and drive into the worst trouble the
family has ever known, in the turbulent South of 1963. |
|
Curtis,
Christopher Paul |
|
J Fic CUR |
|
|
Yankee Girl |
When her FBI-agent
father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964,
eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach
out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated
school. |
|
Rodman, Mary Ann |
|
J Fic ROD |
|
|
Mid to Late Twentieth Century |
|
Greetings
from Planet Earth |
In 1977, as twelve
year-old Theo struggles with a science project on space
exploration, questions emerge about why his father never
returned from Vietnam. |
|
Kerley, Barbara |
|
J Fic KER |
|
|
White Sands,
Red Menace |
It is 1946 and
World War II is over ended by the atomic bomb that Dewey
Kerrigan's and Suze Gordon's scientist parents helped build.
Dewey's been living with the Gordons since her father died and
now, she may have to live with her long-lost mother who has
suddenly reappeared. |
|
Klages, Ellen |
|
J Fic KLA |
|
|
When the
Sergeant Came Marching Home |
In 1946, when his
father returns from the war, a ten year-old boy and his family
move from the Montana town where they had been living to an old,
run-down farm in the middle of nowhere. |
|
Lemna, Don |
|
J Fic LEM |
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