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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
Appears on the following book lists:
 Historical Fiction - United States
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Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
228 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Guys Read
Good Reads for Middle School
Good Reads for Guys
Newbery Honor
Discussion Guides - Children's Books
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Kids Book Prizes
Classroom Read Aloud - chapter books
Audio books - history on the go (1- 6 hours)
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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
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
Coretta Scott King Award for Older Readers
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Draper, Sharon M.
Fire from the Rock
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
229 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Maud Hart Lovelace Nominees 2009-2010: Division II
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Durbin, William
Blackwater Ben
In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.
199 p. 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
Minnesota - historical fiction
Minnesota Book Awards
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Godbersen, Anna
Rumors : a Luxe Novel
Rumors fly about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, New York's brightest star. All eyes are now on her sister Diana, New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the seductive Penelope Hayes and Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud. This novel is set in Manhattan, 1899.
423 p. 2008
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Hesse, Karen
Brooklyn Bridge : a Novel
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
229 p. 2008
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Houston, Julian
New Boy
Set in the 1950s, sophomore Rob Garrett is the first African American in an all white elite private school in Connecticut.
282 p. 2005
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Jordan, Hillary
Mudbound : a Novel
"When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Laura does not share Henry's love of rural life, and she struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, all the while under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud." -Book Jacket
328 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Family Relationships
At Home Reader July 2008
Alex Award - Fiction
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Kidd, Ronald
Monkey Town : the Summer of the Scopes Trial
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
259 p. 2006
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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 why: he's working on a top secret government program.
321 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Audio books - history on the go (6 hours plus)
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Larson, Kirby
Hattie Big Sky
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim, and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead.
289 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Newbery Honor
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Lester, Julius
Day of Tears : a Novel in Dialogue
Based on the largest slave auction in history, this novels is told from the perspective of many involved..including the plantation owner and his children, the auctioneers, the townspeople, and the slaves who were sold and those who were not.
177 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
Coretta Scott King Award for Older Readers
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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.
252 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Adventure for Kids
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Discussion Guides - Children's Books
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
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McMurtry, Larry
Telegraph Days : a Novel
Meet the big gunfighters of the Wild West (Billie the Kid, the Earp Brothers, and Doc Holliday) through the eyes of a woman who could be called a pistol herself, Nellie Courtright.
289 p. 2006
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Paterson, Katherine
Bread and Roses Too
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
275 p. 2006
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Rinaldi, Ann
Brooklyn Rose
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.
222 p. 2005
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Schmidt, Gary D.
The Wednesday Wars
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
264 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers Autumn 2007
Newbery Honor
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
Laughing Out Loud
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Sharenow, Robert
My Mother the Cheerleader : a Novel
Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans.
288 p. 2009
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Wells, Rosemary
Red Moon at Sharpsburg : a Novel
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.
236 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers Spring 2008
War Stories
Historical Fiction - United States
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