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Dar and the Spear-Thrower
by Marjorie Cowley
A young Cro-Magnon boy's longing to be a carver goes against his clan's traditions of hunting, but an encounter with a stranger inspires the boy to find his true talents and the meaning of manhood. Call Number: J COWLEY
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Pankration : The Ultimate Game
by Dyan Blacklock
In Greece, in 430 BC, Nic sets out to search of his friend, Gellus, at Olympia in order to save him from his awaiting enemies and the challenge of the Pankration, the most vicious and brutal sport in all the games. Call Number: J BLACKLOC
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The Thieves of Ostia : A Roman mystery
by Caroline Lawrence
Set in 79 A.D., Flavia Gemina, a young girl from a wealthy family, finds herself involved in a strange mystery with a slave and an orphan after the neighborhood dogs start dying and a home in her community is robbed. Call Number: J LAWRENCE
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Year of the Tiger
by Alison Lloyd
In ancient China, two boys forge an unlikely alliance in an effort to become expert archers and, ultimately, to save their city from invading barbarians. Call Number: J LLOYD
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Crispin : The Cross of Lead
by Avi
After being accused of a crime, thirteen-year-old Crispin becomes a wanted man and so he must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive. Call Number: J AVI
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Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
During her fourteenth year, in the year 1290, Catherine keeps a diary in which she details her family's activities and conflicts, the life of their medieval English manor, and her own coming to maturity. Call Number: J CUSHMAN
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Bound
by Donna Jo Napoli
In a Chinese-inspired "Cinderella" tale for young readers, Xing Xing lives a hard life of neglect and servitude until one magical night when she attends the annual festival in disguise and meets a prince whose love for her changes everything. Call Number: J NAPOLI
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A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in 12th century Korea, wants to learn how to make the celadon pottery for which his village is known. Call Number: J PARK
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Dogboy
by Christopher Russell
Abandoned at birth and left with a group of mastiff pups, Brind grows up to know the animals and the rules of the pack as though he were a dog himself, but when his best friend Glaive attempts to take over the alpha male lead, Brind's instincts quietly tell him that he is their one true leader and so he must begin to act accordingly. Call Number: J RUSSELL
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Raleigh's Page
by Alan W. Armstrong
In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians. Call Number: J ARMSTRONG
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Wicked Will
by Bailey MacDonald
Performing in the English town of Stratford-on-Avon in 1576, a young actress (disguised as a boy) and a local lad named Will Shakespeare uncover a murder mystery. Call Number: J MACDONAL
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Blood on the River : James Town 1607
by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier travels to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith. Call Number: J CARBONE
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The Sacrifice
by Kathleen Benner Duble
With the town of Salem in a state of panic over the idea of witches living amongst them, Abigail and her sister are suddenly arrested for being witches themselves, but when their trial date nears, their mother makes the ultimate sacrifice for them - forcing the two girls to make the decision to turn on their mother in order to save their own lives. Call Number: J DUBLE
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The Winter People
by Joseph Bruchac
Set in 1759, fourteen-year-old Saxso is one of the few men left to guard the village when British soldiers attack and then take his sisters and mother hostage, but despite being all alone, Saxso sets out to track and fight the raiders in order to bring his family members back safely. Call Number: J BRUCHAC
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Stowaway
by Karen Hesse
Starting as an eleven-year-old stowaway aboard Captain Cook's ship, young Nicholas Young becomes a famous seaman as the first person to have ever spotted New Zealand, as well as a respected member of the Royal Navy. Call Number: J HESSE
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Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776
by Laurie Calkhoven
Twelve-year-old Daniel enjoys his work as a spy and messenger for the American revolutionaries, but his pleasure ends when he witnesses the horrors of war. Series: Boys of Wartime Call Number: J CALKHOVE
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Attack of the Turtle: A Novel
by Drew Carlson
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare. Call Number: J CARLSON
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Give Me Liberty
by Laura Elliott
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia, and his compassionate master Basil, who believes in equality for all, must decide whether or not to join in the fight for liberty as the American Revolution erupts around them. Call Number: J ELLIOTT
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
After his plans to become a silversmith are ruined, Johnny joins the American Revolution as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty. Call Number: J/YA FORBES
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Storyteller
by Patricia Reilly Giff
A modern-day teen learns the story of her look-alike ancestor who lived during the American Revolution and struggled to survive while following male family members into battle. Call Number: J GIFF
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Victory
by Susan Cooper
Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson. Call Number: J COOPER
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Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven-year-old Elijah, the first child born into freedom in a Canadian town for runaway slaves, finds himself on a dangerous journey to America to track down an unscrupulous former slave. Call Number: J CURTIS
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Dancing at the Odinochka
by Kirkpatrick Hill
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Call Number: J HILL
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Fair Weather
by Richard Peck
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois 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. Call Number: J/YA PECK
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The Porcupine Year
by Louise Erdrich
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home. Call Number: J ERDRICH
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Worth
by A. LaFaye
Having been sent from New York City via the Orphan Train in order to help a man work his farm, young John isn't received well by the biological son who, due to his physical limitations, is unable to fulfill his duties alongside his father, but with time, both boys come to an understanding and accept that there is more than enough room for the two of them to live in peace and friendship. Call Number: J LAFAYE
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Crooked River
by Shelley Pearsall
When a white trapper is murdered and a young Chippewa Indian is arrested as the suspected villain, the entire town is enraged and screams for revenge fill the streets, but thirteen-year-old Rebecca Carver believes the Chippewa boy is falsely accused and sets out to find out the truth to set him free from his fate on the gallows. Call Number: J PEARSALL
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The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills. Call Number: J SPEARE
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Iron Thunder
by Avi
Tom's job as an assistant to Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, makes him a target of Confederate spies. Call Number: J AVI
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Retreat from Gettysburg
by Kathleen Ernst
In 1863, during the tense week after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Maryland boy faces difficult choices as he is forced to care for a wounded Confederate officer while trying to decide if he himself should leave his family to fight for the Union. Call Number: J ERNST
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
by W. R. Philbrick
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War. Call Number: J PHILBRIC
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A Thousand Never Evers
by Shana Burg
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. Call Number: J BURG
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The Year of Miss Agnes
by Kirkpatrick Hill
Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher. Call Number: J HILL
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Take Me with You
by Carolyn Marsden
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated. Call Number: J MARSDEN
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The Teacher's Funeral : a Comedy in Three Parts
by Richard Peck
Set in a rural farm town in 1904, Russell is hopeful that they will close the school down now that their teacher has died, but when a replacement is named and it is Russell's sister, the two know that they are going to have quite an eventful year together as Russell tries to sabotage her plans at every turn. Call Number: J PECK
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Listening for Lions
by Gloria Whelan
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England. Call Number: J WHELAN
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Countdown
by Deborah Wiles
The fearful events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are witnessed by 11-year-old Franny, who finds her life and perspectives changing throughout the course of a week that is also marked by difficult family issues. Call Number: J WILES
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One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
In the summer of 1968, after travelling to visit the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters discover that their mother wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. Call Number: J WILLIAMS
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Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Call Number: J LARSON
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Lord of the Nutcracker Men
by Iain Lawrence
Playing with wooden soldiers, ten-year-old Johnny finds his games to have more meaning then ever after his father leaves England to fight at the front in France against the Germans in World War I. Call Number: J LAWRENCE
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Winnie's War
by Jenny Moss
Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family--her coffin-building father, her troubled mother, and her two baby sisters. Call Number: J MOSS
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
by Gennifer Choldenko
A twelve-year-old boy moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guard’s families were housed there. He has to adjust to his new home and help care for his autistic sister. Call Number: J/YA CHOLDENK
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father. Call Number: J/YA CURTIS
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Great Depression.. Call Number: J HESSE
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Strawberry Hill
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression. Call Number: J HOBERMAN
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Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. Holm
Set in 1935 during the Great Depression, an 11-year-old girl nicknamed Turtle goes to live with relatives in Key West, Florida, after her mother takes a job as a housekeeper for a woman who does not like children. As a result, Turtle finds herself coming out of the shell she has spent her whole life building. Call Number: J/YA HOLM
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A Long Way from Chicago: a Novel in Stories
by Richard Peck
Year after year, Joey and Mary Alice go to visit their Grandma in her quiet town in Illinois, but with every summer that passes, things become increasingly odd in this collection of amusing adventure stories. Call Number: J/YA PECK
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The Storm in the Barn
by Matt Phelan
Facing his share of ordinary challenges, from local bullies to his father's failed expectations, eleven-year-old Jack Clark must also deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas, including the rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Graphic Novel Call Number: J PHELAN
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Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father’s exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town’s secret history. Call Number: J VANDERPO
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Don't You Know There's a War On?
by Avi
Not many things help Howie Crispers forget the war which his father is fighting overseas, with the exception of his teacher, Miss Gossim, but when her job is suddenly in jeopardy, Howie's efforts turn to saving her. Call Number: J AVI
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Weedflower
by Cynthia Kadohata
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sumiko and her family are forced to move into an internment camp. Sumiko is left saddened and confused until a new friendship with a Mohave boy, Frank, on the Indian reservation gives her the inspiration she needs. Call Number: J KADOHATA
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Paper Wishes
by Lois Sepahban
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp Japanese-American citizens in the desert. Call Number: J SEPAHBAN
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The Green Glass Sea
by Ellen Klages
Dewey Kerrigan, while living with her scientist father who is working on a top secret government program, has no idea how the Manhattan Project will change the world. Call Number: J KLAGES
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Black Radishes
by Susan Meyer
Forced to leave his friends behind in Nazi-threatened 1940 Paris, Jewish youth Gustave relocates with his parents to a small country village where he learns about the occupation and meets a Catholic resistance fighter who offers to help them flee to America. Call Number: J MEYER
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When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park
The arrival of World War II to Korea changes the lives of Sun-Hee and her older brother Tae-yul. Tae-yul joins the Japanese army in an attempt to protect their beloved Uncle, who is suspected of helping the Korean resistance, while Sun-Hee stays behind guarding the secrets of their family. A powerful novel that captures an important, yet little-known, part of history. Call Number: J/YA PARK
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Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook
by Beverly Patt
Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II. Call Number: J PATT
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Yellow Star
by Jennifer Rozines Roy
From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland’s Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Call Number: J ROY
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Someone Named Eva
by Joan M. Wolf
In 1942, blonde and blue-eyed Milada is taken from her home in Czechoslovakia to a school in Poland to be trained as a “proper German” for adoption by a German family, but all the while she remembers her true name and identity. Call Number: J WOLF
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Shooting the Moon
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in. Call Number: J DOWELL
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Letters from Wolfie
by Patti Sherlock
Thirteen-year-old Mark donates his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program during the Vietnam War, but when the Army won't say when--or if--the dogs will be returned to their owners, Mark grows more unsure of his decision to send Wolfie, in a gripping story about loyalty, dissent, patriotism, and the heartbreaking contradictions of war. Call Number: J SHERLOCK
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