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AMERICAN HISTORY 1600-1700 Exploration & War of
Independence |
Forbes,
Esther Edmonds,
Walter Dumaux Myers,
Walter Dean O'Dell,
Scott Rinaldi,
Ann. Fritz, Jean Lasky, Kathryn Summary. Blackwood,
Gary Rinaldi,
Ann O'Dell,
Scott |
Johnny
Tremain The
Matchlock Gun The
Glory Field The
serpent never sleeps The
fifth of March Early Thunder Beyond
the burning time The
Year of the hangman Time
enough for drums Sarah
Bishop |
Follows
a family's 200-year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s
through the lives of his descendants. A
novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas A
story of the Boston Massacre In
the early thunder of the Revolution, Daniel West is torn by loyalty to his
Tory father on one hand and by his own growing independence of judgment and
recognition of injustices to the "Yankees" on the other. When,
in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New
England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from
execution In
1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American
colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the
political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the
course of history. During
the tumultous years of the American Revolution, while her brothers and her
beloved tutor are away in battle, fifteen-year-old Jemima Emerson learns hard
lessons about love, loyalty, and patriotism. Left
alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in
the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest
her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the
wilderness. |
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AMERICAN HISTORY 1800S |
Beatty,
Patricia Collier,
James Lincoln Garland,
Sherry. Giff,
Patricia Steiner,
Barbara |
The
Coach That Never Came Who
is Carrie? In
the shadow of the Alamo A
house of tailors A
Mystery at Chilkoot Pass |
While
spending the summer with his grandmother in Colorado, thirteen-year-old Paul
becomes involved in a dangerous adventure when he tries to trace the history
of an unusual gold and ruby belt buckle that his grandmother claims is a
family heirloom. Conscripted
into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio
makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General
Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of
the Alamo. When
thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as
soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of
hardships living with
her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn
as her home. At
the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada
with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring
author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief. |
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AMERICAN HISTORY 1850-1864 Slavery & Civil War |
Lester,
Julius. Collier,
James Lincoln Collier,
James Lincoln Mach,
Tom. Paulsen,
Gary. Pinkney,
Andrea Davis. Ruby,
Lois. Gerver,
Jane E. Fleischman,
Forrester,
Sandra Keith,
Harold
Love,
D. Anne Lyons,
Mary E. Paulsen, Gary.
Reeder,
Carolyn Reeder,
Carolyn Rinaldi,
Ann Shaara,
Michael Wisler,
Clifton Wisler,
Clifton Beatty,
Patricia Beatty,
Patricia Beatty,
Patricia, Patricia
Beatty. Lester,
Julius |
The
Old African War
comes to Willy Freeman The
bloody country Sissy!
Soldier's
Heart Silent
Thunder Soon
be Free Little
Women Bull
Run Sound
the Jubilee Rifles
for Watie Three
against the tide Ellen
Bee Sarny,
a life remembered Shades
of gray Across
the lines Amelia's
War The
Killer Angels Red
Cap The
Drummer Boy of Vicksburg Turn
homeward, Hannalee Charley
Skedaddle Be
ever hopeful, Hannalee Jayhawker
This strange new feeling |
An
elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of his fellow
slaves and eventually lead them back to Africa. Based on an actual incident
from black history. Young
Jessica Radford is privy to secret information regarding the Underground
Railroad during the Civil War. Eager
to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing
both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. In
1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take
turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are
slaves is affected by the Civil War. Thirteen-year-old
Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents
have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker
boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to
freedom. Chronicles
the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women
in nineteenth-century New England. Illustrated notes throughout the text
explain the historical background of the story. Northerners,
Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe
the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first
battle of the Civil War. Bull
Run, A
slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during
the Civil War. Jeff
Bussey, a Union volunteer, sees the Civil War from both sides when he is sent
to spy on Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee raiders After
her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during
the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult
journey in hopes of being reunited with him. A
scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the
older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family,
sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an
end to slavery. Based on the life of
Elizabeth Van Lew. Van
Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900 Continues
the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the
aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and
lived a full life until age ninety-four. At
the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate
family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside
with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he
refused to take part in the war. Edward,
the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend
Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. When
a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays
an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to
save the town. Ransom Civil
War, 1861-1865 A
young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent
to Andersonville Prison. Powell,
Ransom J., 1849-1899 In
this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays
great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi Twelve-year-old
Hannalee Reed is taken from her home in Georgia in 1864 and sent North to
work in a Union factory, where she struggles to return to her home U.S.
- History - 1861-1865 - Reconstruction
- 1865-1876 In
the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes
a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state
of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy. One
of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love
stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery |
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AMERICAN HISTORY 1900S |
Choldenko,
Gennifer, Griffin,
Adele. Gutman,
Dan. Kadohata,
Cynthia. Kidd,
Ronald. Peck,
Richard McMullan,
Kate. Reeder,
Carolyn |
Al
Capone Does my Shirts Hannah,
Divided Mickey
& Me Kira-kira
Monkey
Town The
Teacher's Funeral A
fine start Across
the lines |
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. In
1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to
leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia
girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam. When
Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the
only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game. Chronicles
the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in
rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s,
and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. 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. In
rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school
and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes
over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle
"hauls off and dies." In
this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the
Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school. Edward,
the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend
Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. |
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ENGLISH HISTORY – 1400-1900 |
Burchett, Jan. |