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Ancient and
Medieval History
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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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Secret of the Andes |
In this Newbery Award book, a young Inca boy searches for is
birthright and his identity. |
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Clark, Ann Nolan |
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J Fic CLA |
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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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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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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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Pre-Colonial Period
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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. |
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Conrad, Pam |
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J Fic CON |
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Colonial Period
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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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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. |
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Fleischman, Sid |
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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 |
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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 |
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J Fic HAN |
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Season
of Promise |
A glimpse of Colonial Life through
they eyes of a young girl. |
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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. |
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Hesse, Karen |
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J Fic HES |
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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. |
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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 |
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J Fic LAS |
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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 |
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The Sign of the Beaver |
After the French and Indian Wars, a young boy is raised by
Indians. |
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Speare, Elizabeth
George |
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J Fic SPE |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Kit Tyler's wild ways lead to problems in witch
conscious Colonial Connecticut. |
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Speare,
Elizabeth George |
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J Fic SPE |
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Revolutionary Period
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The Fighting
Ground |
Jonathan marches off to fight the
British and he is only thirteen-years-old. |
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AVI |
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J Fic AVI |
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My Brother Sam is Dead |
A young boy tells of the tragic events leading up to his brother's
death in the Revolutionary War. |
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Collier, James
Lincoln |
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J Fic COL |
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The Cabin Faced
West |
General Washington visits Ann in the
lonely Pennsylvania territory of 1784. |
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Fritz, Jean |
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J Fic FRI |
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This Time,
Tempe Wick? |
Revolutionary soldiers camp out on
Tempe Wick's farm whom she helps until they try to steal her
horse. |
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Gauch, Patricia Lee |
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J Fic FRI |
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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. |
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Gregory, Kristiana |
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J Fic GRE |
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Eighteenth Century
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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. |
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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. |
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Martin, Jacqueline |
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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. |
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O'Dell, Scott |
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J Fic ODE |
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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. |
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Reiche, Dietlof |
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J Fic REI |
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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. |
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Woodruff, Elvira |
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J Fic WOO |
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Nineteenth Century
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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. |
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Avi |
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J Fic AVI |
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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. |
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Cushman, Karen |
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J Fic CUS |
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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. |
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Giff, Patricia
Reilly |
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J Fic GIF |
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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. |
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Gipson, Fred |
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J Fic GIP |
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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. |
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Ibbotson, Eva |
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J Fic IBB |
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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. |
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LaFaye, A. |
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J Fic LAF |
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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. |
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Lester, Julius |
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J Fic LES |
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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. |
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Lyons, Mary E. |
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J Fic LYO |
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Nightjohn |
Twelve-year-old Sarny's life is changed when one of her fellow
slave teaches her to read even though her teacher risks his life
every time he teaches her. |
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Paulsen, Gary |
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J Fic PAU |
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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. |
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Schur, Maxine Rose |
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J Fic SCH |
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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? |
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Seely, Debra |
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J Fic SEE |
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Ice Drift |
Two Inuit brothers must
fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift
in the Greenland Strait. (1868) |
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Taylor, Theodore |
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J Fic TAY |
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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. |
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Wiseman, David |
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J Fic WIS |
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American Civil War
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Charley Skedaddle |
A young deserter from the Union army finds out the
true meaning of courage in
the Virginia mountains. |
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Beatty, Patricia |
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J Fic BEA |
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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. |
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Brink, Carol Ryre |
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J Fic BRI |
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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. |
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Ives, David |
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J Fic IVE |
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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.
(1856) |
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Karr,
Kathleen |
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J Fic KAR |
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Rifles for Watie |
Jeff, a Union soldier, learns about the realities of war when he
becomes a spy. |
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Keith, Harold |
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J Fic KEI |
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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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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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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 hour, 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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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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Early Twentieth Century to World War I
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Dawn of Fear |
Three boys in a London Suburb become friends amid the violence of
World War II. |
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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. |
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Drucker, Malka |
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J Fic DRU |
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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. |
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Giff, Patricia
Reilly |
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J Fic GIF |
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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. |
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Lewis, Elizabeth
Foreman |
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J Fic LEW |
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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. |
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Lowry, Lois |
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J Fic LOW |
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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 |
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J Fic ORL |
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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. |
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Paulsen, Gary |
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J Fic PAU |
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Hide and Seek |
Rachel, eight years old when the story begins, observes life as a
Jewish child during the Nazi occupation of Holland. |
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Vos, Ida |
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J Fic VOS |
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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. |
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Vos, Ida |
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J Fic VOS |
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Civil Rights Movement
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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. |
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Curtis,
Christopher Paul |
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J Fic CUR |
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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. |
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Rodman, Mary Ann |
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J Fic ROD |
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