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1775 American 184 Fiction Sarah Bishop Scott O'Dell Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the
Revolution War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest
her, SarahBishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.

1776 Slavery, American 316 Fiction; Award Chains (Seeds of America) Laurie Halse When their owner dies at the start of the Revolution, Isabel and her younger sister
Revolution Winning Anderson are sold to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the
Patriots.
1777 Revolutionary 178 Fiction The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary Kristiana Gregory Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from
War War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to
Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America) fight the British.

1778 American 215 Fiction Soldier’s Secret: The Story of Deborah Sheila Solomon Klass During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises
Revolution Sampson herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.

1798 Pioneers, Frontier 279 Fiction The Second Bend in the River Ann Rinaldi In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called
Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.

1820 Slavery 252 Fiction Wolf By The Ears Ann Rinaldi Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally
Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her -- to
escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.

1833 Pioneers, Frontier 298 Based on a Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison Lois Lenski In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenski reconstructs the real life story of Mary
true story; Jemison, who was captured in a raid as a young girl and raised amongst the Seneca
award winning Indians. Meticulously researched and illustrated with many detailed drawings, this
work offers an exceptionally vivid and personal portrait of Native American life and
customs.

1849 Pioneers, Frontier, 195 Fiction The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Karen Cushman In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is
Gold Rush distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough
California mining town.
1850 Pioneers, Frontier 302 Fiction Children of the Covered Wagon Mary Jane Carr Young children will love to read this historically-accurate, personal account of
pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail during the mid-1800s.

1859 Slavery, 192 Fiction A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Patricia C. McKissack In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she
underground Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide
railroad (Dear America Series) whether to escape to freedom.

1859 Slavery, 192 Nonfiction Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman Dorothy Sterling Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape
underground seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the
railroad secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people.
Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous
journey.
1861 Civil War 130 Nonfiction Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Seymour Reit In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an
Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma
Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army.
Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma became a cunning
master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn behind Confederate
lines.

1861 Civil War 156 Fiction When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil Barry Denenberg The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she
War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the
Virginia, 1864 (Dear America Series Civil War.

1863 Civil War 164 Fiction Riot Walter Dean Myers In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father,
faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War
and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

1864 Pioneers, frontier 275 Fiction; Award Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier
Winning in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her
mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the
woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear,
but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo.

1893 Industrial 139 Fiction Fair Weather Richard Peck In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois
Revolution farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition
which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be
a life-changing experience for everyone.

1919 Industrial 148 Fiction Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia
Revolution, in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while
immigrants when the others emigrate to America.

1927 Industrial 346 Fiction Uprising Margaret Peterson In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly
Revolution Haddix 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, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes
historical notes.

1929 Great Depression 105 Fiction A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt C. Coco De Young Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor
Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression.
1929 Great Depression 262 Fiction Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of
Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must
adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on
Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work,
acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great
Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions
threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past
learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.

1929 Great Depression 199 Fiction Nowhere to Call Home Cynthia DeFelice When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash,
twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight
train and live the life of a hobo.
1929 Great Depression 307 Fiction The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old
Curtis Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in
Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.

1930 Great Depression 276 Fiction; Award Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with
Winning prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

1938 WWII - Nazis 205 Fiction Is it Night or Day? Fern Schumer In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago,
Chapman Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American
culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she
has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword
about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to
safety during World War II.

1940 WWII - Nazis 179 Nonfiction Children of the Resistance Lore Cowan True stories of young people in many Nazi occupied countries who took an active
part in the underground resistance
1942 WWII - Japanese 149 Fiction Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese- Yoshiko Uchida After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her
internment camp American Evacuation family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.

1943 WWII - Nazis 137 Fiction; Award Number the Stars Lois Lowry In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns
Winning how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the
Nazis.
1943 WWII - Nazis 170 Fiction The Devil’s Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Jane Yolen Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in
Classics) the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

1943 WWII - Nazis 269 Nonfiction The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom, The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who
Elizabeth & John helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable
Sherrill evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now repackaged for a
new generation.
1944 WWII 199 Fiction An Elephant in the Garden Michael Morpurgo Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is an elephant
named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be
shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother
moves Marlene into the back garden to save her. And then the bombs start to fall ...

1945 WWII - Japanese 145 Nonfiction Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Houston & During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high
internment camp James D. Houston mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house
thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was
the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and
take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a
seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and
adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life.

1945 WWII - Atom 56 Fiction Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks) Laurence Yep Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it
bomb affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.

1945 WWII - Nazis 196 Nonfiction We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Jacob Boas "The end of the world will soon be here" / David Rubinowicz -- "Long live youth!" /
Who Died in the Holocaust Yitzhak Rudashevski -- "My name is Harry" / Moshe Flinker -- "I want to live!" / Eva
Heyman -- "I must uphold my ideals" / Anne Frank.

1951 Civil Rights - KKK 281 Fiction Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands Susan Carol McCarthy In the turbulent spring of 1951, central Florida became notoriously linked to a
vicious series of Ku Klux Klan activities. The racial, religious, and political mix that
populated Reesa McMahon's childhood hometown of Mayflower that same year
was, as her Northern-born father remarked, "the social equivalent of a Molotov
cocktail." The upheaval her family experiences in the coming-of-age novel Lay That
Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy--which is based on actual events
from her own life--abruptly ends Reesa's girlish sense of security. When her friend
Marvin Cully, a black orange-picker who works for her father, is killed by the local
Opalakee Klan, she realizes how much her liberal family stands out in opposition to
the men with white sheets and guns who, unmasked, served as the pillars of the
local community. While making sense of Marvin's death and slowly realizing the
extent to which her fellow townsfolk brandish their racist attitudes, Reesa watches
her own house become the unofficial center of the resistance.

1958 Civil Rights - race 298 Fiction The Lions of Little Rock Kristin Levine In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and
relations family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student,
helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
1964 Civil Rights 202 Fiction Glory Be Augusta Scattergood In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging
Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved
public pool rather than desegregating it.

1960 Civil Rights - race 63 Nonfiction Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the
relations integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.

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