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Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
When her former owner breaks his promise to set her free and ends up sending her to live with a cruel loyalist family at the start of the Revolutionary War, Isabel is heartbroken and so becomes determined to do whatever is necessary to win her freedom, including spying on her family to help the rebels win the war.
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Sophia's war : a tale of the Revolution
by Avi
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which was newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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The boy who dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Raised during the rise of the Nazi party, Helmuth believed all that he was taught and so joined the Nazi party with all the pride in the world, yet as the country he once knew began to fall apart and he witnessed so many horrific events unfold, Helmuth found it increasingly difficult to remain both loyal and silent.
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Alchemy and Meggy Swann
by Karen Cushman
Sent to live with an alchemist father who doesn't want her, physically challenged Meggy is appalled by the noise, dirt and crime of Elizabethan London and works to establish a life for herself and a pet goose with the aid of a pair of walking sticks.
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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
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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.
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Gingersnap
by Patricia Reilly Giff
When her brother Rob goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna leaves upstate New York with her turtle and, led by an encouraging ghostly voice, seeks their grandmother, who Rob believed may live in Brooklyn, in hopes of finding the family she so desperately needs. Includes soup recipes.
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Home is with our family
by Joyce Hansen
Attending abolitionist meetings and speeches by Sojourner Truth while protesting plans to turn her 19th-century New York community into a park, 13-year-old Maria learns of a new friend's dire troubles, in a story by a pair of Coretta Scott King Award winners.
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The watcher
by Joan Hiatt Harlow
A historically accurate, stand-alone companion to Shadows on the Sea follows the experiences of a girl who is kidnapped by her Nazi spy mother and taken to live in war-stricken Berlin, Germany, where she finds support from a special dog and a family she never knew.
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The midnight zoo
by Sonya Hartnett
Twelve-year-old Andrej and his 9-year-old brother, Tomas, flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in a devastated town they discover a hidden wonder: a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
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Chasing Orion
by Kathryn Lasky
While public places in her 1952 Indiana community are closed for the summer to slow the spread of polio, 11-year-old Georgie befriends a teen-aged neighbor whose illness necessitates confinement within an iron lung.
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The lions of Little Rock
by Kristin Levine
In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism
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Better to wish : the first generation
by Ann M. Martin
In 1930, Abby Nichols is an 8-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
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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.
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A medal for Leroy
by Michael Morpurgo
Receiving a letter from his recently deceased aunt, young Michael learns the story of his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who heroically risked his life multiple times to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of racial barriers. By the best-selling author of War Horse.
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Ship of dolls
by Shirley Parenteau
In 1926, eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis seeks to leave her strict grandparents in Portland and reunite with her singer mother in San Francisco, so when she hears that her class is sending a doll to Japan by way of San Francisco, she seizes her chance
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Woods runner
by Gary Paulsen
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes
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Jump into the sky
by Shelley Pearsall
Staying with his aunt in the wake of his mother' desertion, grandmother's death and father's service in World War II, young Levi is placed alone on a train bound for his father's last known location and endures painful, eye-opening lessons about racism and belonging.
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One came home
by Amy Timberlake
In 1871 Wisconsin, 13-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
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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.
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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. By the National Book Award finalist author of Each Little Bird That Sings.
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Breaking Stalin's nose
by Eugene Yelchin
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values and beliefs.
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