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Seeds of Hope
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Kristiana Gregory |
Susanna Fairchild and her family are on board a ship sailing from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. He… |
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Mama played baseball
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David A. Adler |
Young Amy helps her mother to get a job as a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while Amy's father is serving in the Army during World War II. |
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Eagle song
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Joseph Bruchac |
After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage. |
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Gifts From the Sea
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Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can’t leave and almost no on… |
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Storm warriors
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Elisa Lynn Carbone |
In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby … |
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Marie-Grace and the orphans
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Sarah Masters Buckey |
As yellow fever threatens New Orleans in 1853, Marie-Grace cares for an abandoned baby. |
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Meet Cecile
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Denise Lewis Patrick |
With the help of her white friend Marie-Grace, Cecile, a well-to-do black girl in living 1853 New Orleans, plans a secret adventure at a Mardi Gras costume ball. |
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Walking home to Rosie Lee
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A. LaFaye |
At the end of the Civil War, young Gabe meets many other former slaves getting a feel for freedom whose kindness helps him in his quest to find his mother, who was sold away. |
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I be somebody
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Hadley Irwin |
A young black boy in the early 1900's hears his community talk about moving to Canada to escape the prejudices and problems they face in the United States. |
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Lotta's progress
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Norma Johnston |
In 1848 when Lotta's family immigrates to Boston from Germany, they face all sorts of difficulties until they are befriended by the Alcott family, who have set themselves up as "missionaries to the p… |
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The 1960s
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Inspired after meeting John F. Kennedy at a 1960 campaign fundraiser hosted by the Aldrich family, Chuck defies authority at his Pennsylvania boarding school, Sojie takes part in lunch counter sit-in… |
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Mr. McGill goes to town
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Jim Aylesworth |
Mr. McGill and four of his friends agree to help each other finish their chores so that they will all have time to go to the town fair. |
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The journal of Otto Peltonen
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William Durbin |
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight… |
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
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Barry Denenberg |
A Confederate girl records the hardships of Southern life as the Civil War rages at her doorstep and tears her family and her country apart. |
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Across the alley
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Richard Michelson |
Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they… |
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Go south to freedom
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Frye Gaillard |
As Gaillard's narrative makes clear, the Seminole Wars of the 1830s, in which Indians fought side by side with former slaves, represents the largest slave uprising in American history. Gaillard also … |
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Fields of home
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Marita Conlon-McKenna |
The final book in the Children of the Famine trilogy, set during the Irish famine. Michael is a stable-boy at the Big House, learning about horses, while Eily struggles to survive in her cottage on a… |
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Hilarion
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Daniel Curley |
At the turn of the century Hilarian joins four other men from Linsk and finds the streets of America paved with gold. |
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The return of Gabriel
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John Armistead |
In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year-old white boy whose best friend is black is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississip… |
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Uncle Sam
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Steve Light |
All-American Uncle Sam is read for any parade! Just add string and he is ready to pull! The easy-to-assemble pieces punch out and fit together for playtime, then return to their case like a puzzle. J… |
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