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Historical Fiction: United States
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These wonderful stories tell about life in the United States from Colonial times to the 1970s.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. 2008 Children's Fiction Book ANDERSO Other formats available | |
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Avi Hard Gold : The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 a Tale of the Old West 12–year-old Early Whittcomb joins a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858 to search for his 19-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family farm. 2008 Children's Fiction Book AVI | |
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Avi The Seer of Shadows In New York City in 1872, 14-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs. When Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. 2008 Children's Fiction Book AVI Other formats available | |
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Bruchac, Joseph The Journal of Jesse Smoke : a Cherokee Boy Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal. 2001 Children's Fiction Book BRUCHAC | |
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Carbone, Elisa Lynn Blood On the River : James Town 1607 Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, 12-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. 2006 Children's Fiction Book CARBONE | |
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Carbone, Elisa Lynn Night Running : How James Escaped with the Help of his Faithful Dog A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s. 2008 Children's Fiction Book CARBONE | |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul The Mighty Miss Malone With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available | |
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Duble, Kathleen Benner The Sacrifice In 1692 two sisters, age ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts. Their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom while they await trial in a miserable prison. 2005 Children's Fiction Book DUBLE | |
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Erdrich, Louise Chickadee In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available | |
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Greene, Jacqueline Dembar Meet Rebecca : an American Girl In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies. 2009 Children's Fiction Book | |
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Greenwood, Barbara Factory Girl A fictional story of 12-year-old Emily Watson, who works in a garment factory, is interspersed with photographs and factual accounts of the people and events surrounding the urban poor in the early part of the 20th century. 2007 Children's Fiction Book GREENWO | |
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Holm, Jennifer L. Boston Jane Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory. 2001 Children's Fiction Book HOLM Other formats available | |
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Kadohata, Cynthia Weedflower With remarkable insight and clarity, the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira" explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young Japanese-American girl living in California just as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. 2006 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available | |
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Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers. 1957 Children's Fiction Book KEITH Other formats available | |
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Kelly, Jacqueline The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. 2009 Children's Fiction Book KELLY Other formats available | |
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Klages, Ellen The Green Glass Sea It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns he is working on a top secret government program. 2006 Children's Fiction Book KLAGES Other formats available | |
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Larson, Kirby The Friendship Doll Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her. 2011 Children's Fiction Book | |
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Lawson, Robert Ben and Me : A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written By his Good Mouse Amos Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries. 1939 Children's Fiction Book LAWSON Other formats available | |
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Lisle, Janet Taylor Black Duck Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade. 2006 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available | |
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Mazer, Harry My Brother Abe : Sally Lincoln's Story Forced off their land in Kentucky in 1816, nine-year-old Sarah Lincoln, known as Sally, and her family, including younger brother Abe, move to the Indiana frontier. 2009 Children's Fiction Book MAZER | |
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