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Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Flight
A troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time an into the bodies of a civil rights era FBI agent, an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, a 19th Century Indian tracker and a modern-day airline pilot.
181 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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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
Children's Fiction Book ANDERSO
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Bick, Ilsa J.
Draw the Dark
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
338 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Blundell, Judy.
Strings Attached
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
310 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
Code Talker : a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
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.
231 p. 2005
Teen Fiction Book
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Burg, Shana.
A Thousand Never Evers
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.
301 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book BURG
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Chibbaro, Julie.
Deadly
In the early nineteen hundreds, Prudence Galewski takes a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the case of "Typhoid Mary," a woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever.
293 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Draper, Sharon M.
Copper Sun
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
302 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book DRAPER
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Duble, Kathleen Benner.
Phantoms in the Snow
In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test.
226 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Edwardson, Debby Dahl.
My Name is Not Easy
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
248 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Friesner, Esther M.
Threads and Flames
After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
390 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Frost, Helen
Crossing Stones
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
184 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Godbersen, Anna.
Bright Young Things
In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.
389 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Gray, Claudia.
Fateful
When seventeen-year-old Tess Davies, a ladies' maid, meets handsome Alec Marlow aboard the RMS Titanic, she quickly becomes entangled in the dark secrets of his past, but her growing love puts her in mortal peril even before fate steps in.
328 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Griffin, Adele.
Picture the Dead
After Jennie Lovell's fiance´, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
262 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Uprising
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends.
346 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Hughes, Pat (Patrice Raccio)
Five 4ths of July
Jake Mallory and his friends celebrate their new nation's independence, but over the next four years Jake finds himself in adventurous circumstances as he battles British forces, survives captivity on a prison ship, and finally returns home to Connecticut hopeful for America's future.
278 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Kadohata, Cynthia.
Weedflower
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sumiko's world is turned upside down when her family is forced to move into an internment camp. A new friendship with a Mohave boy, Frank, on the Indian reservation gives her the inspiration she needs to manage the difficult times ahead.
260 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
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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.
340 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book KELLY
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Kidd, Ronald
The Year of the Bomb
In 1955 California, as Invasion of the body snatchers is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set.
202 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book KIDD
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