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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 teachers her. |
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Paulsen, Gary |
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J Fic PAU |
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Lightning Time |
In 1859, young
Theodore Worth joins John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the young
Quaker begins to see that the attack on the arsenal is foolhardy.
His relationships with family, with the compelling but quixotic
John Brown, and with pre-Civil War history will fascinate young
readers. |
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Rees, Douglas C. |
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J Fic REE |
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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 is to Hungary. |
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Schur, Maxine Rose |
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J Fic SCH |
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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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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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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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Carlota |
After the Mexican-American War some Californians continue to
battle the U.S. Army. |
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O'Dell, Scott |
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J Fic ODE |
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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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Mr. Mysterious & Co. |
In 1884, Paul
and Jane accompany their father, Mr. Mysterious, as he travels
across the West in a wagon performing a magic show. They have
various encounters and problems, but they have fun. When they
decide to stake a homestead, a man comes to tell Mr. Mysterious
that he is building a local theater. |
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Fleischman, Sid |
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J Fic FLE |
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Gentleman Outlaw
and Me—Eli |
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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Lone Star |
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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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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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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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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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 |
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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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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