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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.
316 p. 2008
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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.
229 p. 2008
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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.
202 p. 2008
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Bruchac, Joseph
Sacajawea : The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark take turns describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.
199 p. 2000
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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.
203 p. 2001
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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.
237 p. 2006
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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.
unpaged 2008
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Collier, James Lincoln
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral.
216 p 1974
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
Elijah of Buxton
In 1859, 11-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 that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
341 p. 2007
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Cushman, Karen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
In 1949, 13-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
225 p. 2006
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Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Shooting the Moon
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, 12-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
163 p. 2008
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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.
211 p. 2005
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Erdrich, Louise
The Porcupine Year
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, 14-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
193 p. 2008
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Fleischman, Sid
The Giant Rat of Sumatra : or Pirates Galore
When the Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego in 1846, 12-year-old Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston instead he encounters: snarling mutineers, barefoot bandits, duels, secret identities, scrappy orphans, old enemies, villains, heroes and the beginning of the war between Mexico and the United States.
194 p. 2005
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Franklin, Kristine L.
Cuss
In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from different ethnic backgrounds, 12-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school as he watches those around him struggle with various financial difficulties.
290 p. 2007
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Gratz, Alan
The Brooklyn Nine
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
299 p. 2009
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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.
136 p. 2007
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Hahn, Mary Downing
Stepping on the Cracks
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, 11-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
216 p. 1991
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Hemphill, Helen
The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones
Prometheus Jones, age 13, and his 11-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
228 p. 2008
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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.
273 p. 2001
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