Hart, Alison
Summary: In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2007
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] HARLawrence, Caroline.
Summary: "After escaping the ruthless desperados, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton has now set up a Private Eye business in Virginia City and is ready when a young maid named Martha approaches him for help in escaping a killer"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2012
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWVining, Elizabeth Gray
Summary: The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1987
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F GRACarbone, Elisa Lynn.
Summary: When the huge steamship on which they are traveling runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE CARBONEPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PETERSPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1994
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: E POLLord, Bette.
Summary: In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1984
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F LORHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Yearling Book 2015
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPCushman, Karen.
Summary: In 1949, thirteen-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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel-Leaf 2008
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: T FICTION CUSHMANSiegel, Fern.
Summary: Presents an illustrated retelling of Jane Austen's novel about spirited Englishwoman Elizabeth Bennet, who tries to cope with the snobbish Mr. Darcy while attempting to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane, and scatterbrained Lydia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo 2005
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F AUSFritz, Jean.
Summary: Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1987
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F FRILowry, Lois.
Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989
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2 available in Fiction, Call number: F LOWHall, Bruce Edward.
Summary: In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE HALLPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2009
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F PHICopies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] PHIGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION DEARLawrence, Caroline.
Summary: In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2013
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1987
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F WHEMorpurgo, Michael.
Summary: Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends 2013
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2005
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F MACHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfly Books 1995
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE HOPKINSONCooper, Susan
Summary: At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2014
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: T FICTION COOPERConnor, Leslie.
Summary: Miss Bridie emigrates to America in 1856 and chooses to bring a shovel, which proves to be a useful tool throughout her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004