Ancient Egypt
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Cleopatra's Moon
by Vicky Shecter

Cleopatra Selene, the only surviving daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, recalls her life of pomp and splendor in Egypt and, after her parents' deaths, captivity and treachery in Rome.
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

A literate slave in ancient Egypt during the rule of Queen Hatshepsut barters for her freedom by operating as a double spy for two archenemy supporters of rivals to the throne.
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Ancient Greece
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Ithaka
by Adèle Geras

The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War, in the author's sequel to Troy.
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King of Ithaka
by Tracy Barrett

When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.
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Legacy of Kings
by Eleanor Herman

While on a mission to kill the queen, Katerina falls in love with Alexander, Prince of Macedonia, while Jacob tries to win Katerina by competing with Hephaestion and Alexander's betrothed, Zofia, seeks the famed Spirit Eaters.
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Ancient Rome
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Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Doomed to spend his life healing his greedy master's injured gladiators, a medical slave secretly dreams of winning enough money as a gladiator to earn his freedom, while his owner's daughter, who must marry a wealthy older man, notices bizarre changes in the Pompeian landscape.
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The Valiant
by Lesley Livingston

Fallon, the daughter of a Celtic king, is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
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Ancient Asia
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Bound
by Donna Jo Napoli

In a Chinese-inspired "Cinderella" tale for young readers, Xing Xing lives a hard life under the oppressive rule of Stepmother and Sister until one magical night when she attends the annual festival in disguise and meets a prince whose love for her changes everything. 
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The Forest of Stolen Girls
by June Hur

When her detective father goes missing while investigating the disappearance of 13 young women, including her sister, Hwani returns to their early 15th-century village in Korea to uncover dark community secrets.
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Flame in the Mist
by Renée Ahdieh

The daughter of a prominent samurai in feudal Japan is targeted by a dangerous gang of bandits who want to prevent her political marriage, a situation that compels her to disguise herself as a boy and infiltrate the gang's ranks in order to stop the individual behind the plot. 
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Middle Ages
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And I Darken
by Kiersten White

At first rejected by her father and always ignored by her mother, a girl child born to Vlad Dracula grows up to be Lada Dragwlya, a vicious and brutal princess, destined to rule and destroy her enemies.
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Belle's Song
by K. M. Grant

Joining Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrimage to Canterbury after injuring her father, 15-year-old Belle comes to deeply love her fellow travelers and basks in the attentions of two suitors before the party is threatened by Chaucer's political involvements and a power-hungry king.
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Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth
by Caroline B. Cooney

When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.
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Lady Macbeth's Daughter
by Lisa M. Klein

Ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to win the throne of Scotland for her husband while her banished daughter Albia, who was raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny.
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The Passion of Dolssa
by Julie Berry

Rescuing a mystic healer who is being violently pursued by a rogue monk in thirteenth-century Provensa, scrappy matchmaker Botille is challenged to protect the entire village against the monks' crusade to burn heretics.
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The Queen's Daughter
by Susan Coventry

A fictionalized biography of Joan of England, the youngest child of King Henry II of England and his queen consort, Eleanor of Aquitaine, chronicles her complicated relationships with her warring parents and many siblings, particularly with her favorite brother Richard the Lionheart, her years as Queen consort of Sicily and her second marriage to Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse.
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Renaissance
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Loving Will Shakespeare
by Carolyn Meyer

In Stratford-upon-Avon, romance blossoms between childhood friends Anne Hathaway and Will Shakespeare, changing both of their lives forever, in this enthralling novel that details the turbulent relationship between the world's most famous playwright and the spirited farmer's daughter he married.
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My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand

A fantastical, comedic romance adventure inspired by the true story of Lady Jane Grey follows the experiences of a 16-year-old noblewoman who, on the eve of her marriage to a stranger, is swept up in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin. 
TEEN HISTORICAL HAND CYNTHIA
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Ophelia
by Lisa Klein

Provides a new perspective to the relationship of Hamlet and Ophelia as the bond between the two young lovers is explored, her intimate feelings expressed, and the conclusion of what becomes of her altered in a surprising way.
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Colonial America
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Copper Sun
by Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
TEEN HISTORICAL DRAPER SHARON
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Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
by Stephanie Hemphill

When it is suggested that a spate of illnesses in the village are the result of witchcraft, three girls--Ann Putnam, servant Mercy Lewis and Ann's cousin Margaret Walcott--manifest symptoms with deadly ramifications. 
TEEN HISTORICAL HEMPHILL STEPHANIE
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Witch Child
by Celia Rees

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
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French Revolution
The Red Necklace
by Sally Gardner

Set against the French Revolution, fourteen-year-old orphan Yann Margoza's encounter with a shy heiress, twelve-year-old Sido, changes his life after turmoil in their country takes hold and he becomes the only one who can rescue her from the evil Count Kalliovski.
TEEN HISTORICAL GARDNER SALLY
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Revolution
by Jennifer Donnelly

Brooklyn teen Andi acts out in her rage and grief over her younger brother's death to the point that she is forced to spend winter break with her estranged father in France; while in Paris, she discovers and becomes obsessed with a journal she finds that belonged to Alexandrine Paradis, an aspiring Parisian actress who lived two centuries earlier and who had a fateful encounter with the doomed French king and his young son. 
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American Revolution
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Five 4ths of July
by Pat Hughes

Jake Mallory and his friends celebrate their nation's independence, but over the next four years Jake finds himself in dangerous situations as he battles British forces, survives captivity on a prison ship, and returns to a war-torn Connecticut.
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My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier

When Sam Meeker leaves his home in Redding, Connecticut, a town loyal to the king, to fight with the rebel army, he places his family in a very difficult position.
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party
by M. T. Anderson

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale
by J. Albert Mann

Unable to enlist due to an injury, Noah is forced to watch the Revolution from his farm in New York—until a raid on his settlement thrusts him into one of the war’s bloodiest battles, and face-to-face with the enemy.
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Early 1800's
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Under a Painted Sky
by Stacey Lee

In 1845 Missouri, Sammy, a Chinese girl, and Annamae, a runaway slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California, facing countless dangers together and forging an unforgettable bond of friendship.
TEEN HISTORICAL LEE STACEY
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47
by Walter Mosley

Living under the rigid control of a brutal slave master, a frustrated, young slave feels no hope for his future until he meets Tall John, a runaway slave, who inspires him to take action into his own hands in order to live the free life he has always dreamed of having.
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Civil War
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
by Tonya Bolden

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her younger brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
TEEN HISTORICAL BOLDEN TONYA
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My Name is not Friday
by Jon Walter

Samuel and his brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery.
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Riot
by Walter Dean Myers

In 1863, Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and the draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
TEEN HISTORICAL MYERS WALTER
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Soldier's Heart
by Gary Paulsen

At fifteen, Charley Goddard ran off to fight in the Civil War, not knowing what war truly meant, and he came back a changed person at the age of nineteen due to everything he had seen and experienced while living a soldier's life.
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The Victorian Era
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Duels & Deception
by Cindy Anstey

In 1800s London, a young heiress and her lawyer are caught up in a kidnapping plot to steal her fortune, but as their investigation delves deeper and their affections for each other grow, Lydia starts to wonder what she truly wants.
TEEN HISTORICAL ANSTEY CINDY
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
by Mackenzi Lee

Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.
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Late 1800s & Early 1900s
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Audacity
by Melanie Crowder

A historical fiction novel in verse inspired by the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in early 20th-century New York. 
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Brothers of the Buffalo: A Novel of the Red River War
by Joseph Bruchac

In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West.
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A Death-Struck Year
by Makiia Lucier

Determined to ride out the deadly Spanish influenza epic of 1918 in her home rather than in the quarantined boarding-school dorms of the Pacific Northwest, headstrong 17-year-old Cleo volunteers with the Red Cross and witnesses harrowing realities while falling in love with a handsome medical student. 
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In the Shadow of Blackbirds
by Cat Winters

In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
TEEN HISTORICAL WINTERS CAT
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Outrun the Moon
by Stacey Lee

Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school.
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A Sitting in St. James
by Rita Williams-Garcia

In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed. 
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World War I
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The Foreshadowing
by Marcus Sedgwick

Seventeen-year-old Sasha, given the gift of foresight, sees the face of her beloved brother Thomas among the dead of a World War I English battlefield, and so risks her own life disguised as a nurse to venture to the front lines to save Thomas.
TEEN HISTORICAL SEDGWICK MARCUS
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Poppy
by Mary Hooper

Destined to become a servant to an aristocratic family in early 20th-century England, 15-year-old Poppy falls hopelessly in love with her employer's youngest son and volunteers as a nurse during the Great War, where she discovers herself and her capabilities while witnessing the best and worst of humanity.
TEEN HISTORICAL HOOPER MARY
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Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
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Silent
by David Mellon

The outsider daughter of a British father and Indian mother, Adi, fifteen, must rely on her own wits, disguised as a soldier, when her twin brothers are kidnapped by shapeshifter Coal in 1918.
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1920s and 1930s
Angel of Greenwood
by Randi Pink

Angel and Isaiah share a hidden love for black literature, and now each other, when tragedy and triumph emerge during the Greenwood Massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
TEEN HISTORICAL PINK RANDI
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Beck
by Mal Peet

Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in early 20th-century Canada, 15-year-old Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
TEEN HISTORICAL PEET MAL
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The Diviners
by Libba Bray

Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
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Dreamland Burning
by Jennifer Latham

A dual-narrated tale by the author of Scarlett Undercover explores how race relations have changed in the past century through the story of 17-year-old Rowan, who investigates a century-old murder committed during the race riots of 1921 Tulsa. 
TEEN HISTORICAL LATHAM JENNIFER
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Of Better Blood
by Susan Moger

In 1922, unwanted by her upper-class family, teenage polio survivor Rowan plays a born cripple in a state fair eugenics exhibit but soon learns how badly eugenics can go awry.
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Saving Savannah
by Tonya Bolden

Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
TEEN HISTORICAL BOLDEN TONYA
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Speak Easy, Speak Love
by McKelle George

The lives of six teens intertwine during a thrilling summer filled with romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in a 1920s Prohibition-era adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. 
TEEN HISTORICAL GEORGE MCKELLE
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The Steep & Thorny Way
by Cat Winters

In rural 1920s Oregon, a sixteen-year-old biracial girl searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan.
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World War II
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr

A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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The Emperor of Any Place
by Tim Wynne-Jones

When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith

During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
TEEN HISTORICAL SMITH SHERRI
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Invasion
by Walter Dean Myers

Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
TEEN HISTORICAL MYERS WALTER
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman

The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
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My Family for the War
by Anne C. Voorhoeve

Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
TEEN HISTORICAL VOORHOEVE ANNE
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Playing for the Commandant
by Suzy Zail

Hanna, a young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz who is desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant's house, but staying alive isn't supposed to include falling in love with the commandant's son.
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Prisoner of Night and Fog
by Anne Blankman

In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter. 
TEEN HISTORICAL BLANKMAN ANNE
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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys

Racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
TEEN HISTORICAL SEPETYS RUTA
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Thin Wood Walls
by David Patneaude

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and America enters World War II, young Japanese-American friends Joe and Ray face suspicions of spying and ultimately the boredom and confinement of Tule Lake War Relocation Camp. 
TEEN HISTORICAL PATNEAUDE DAVID
1950s-1960s and the Civil Rights Era
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I'm Glad I Did
by Cynthia Weil

In 1963 sixteen-year-old JJ Green, a songwriter interning at New York City's famous Brill Building, finds herself a writing partner In Luke Silver, a boy who seems to connect instantly with her music, and they start cutting their first demo with Dulcie Brown, a legend who has fallen on hard times, with a secret past.
TEEN HISTORICAL WEIL CYNTHIA
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Robin Talley

In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
TEEN HISTORICAL TALLEY ROBIN
Mazie
by Melanie Crowder

Leaping at a chance for a Broadway audition, a teen from 1950s Nebraska endures brutal but thrilling auditions, before dwindling resources and a challenge to her personal beliefs force her to reevaluate her priorities.
TEEN HISTORICAL CROWDER MELANIE
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
by Chris Crowe

A riveting fictionalized account of an actual event, as told from the perspective of a white teenage boy who discovers the evils of racism, recreates the brutal murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy accused of flirting with a white woman, and the trial that ensued, leading to the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. 
TEEN HISTORICAL CROWE CHRIS
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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
by Mary Downing Hahn

A tale inspired by a double murder that took place in the author's 1950s Maryland hometown follows the experiences of high school junior Nora, who questions everything she ever believed in the aftermath of the killings of two teenage peers, whose deaths are blamed on a victim's bitter ex-boyfriend.
TEEN HISTORICAL HAHN MARY
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys

Josie, the 17-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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Vietnam War and 1970s
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui

The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
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Butterfly Yellow
by Thanhha Lai

A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
TEEN HISTORICAL LAI THANHHA
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Burn Baby Burn
by Meg Medina

During the summer of 1977 when New York City is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam, seventeen-year-old Nora must also face her family's financial woes, her father's absence, and her brother's growing violence.
TEEN HISTORICAL MEDINA MEG
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Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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For What It's Worth
by Janet Tashjian

Enjoying a life of playing his guitar, writing for a music column and spending time with his girlfriend, 1971 teen Quinn faces tough decisions when he is confronted by a draft dodger, a situation that is complicated by bizarre Ouija-board messages from his favorite music artists.
TEEN HISTORICAL TASHJIAN JANET
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The Smell of Other People's Houses
by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Growing up in 1970s Alaska isn't like growing up anywhere else; don't think life is going to be easy, know your place, and never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation.
TEEN HISTORICAL HITCHCOCK BONNIE
1980s and Beyond
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All We Have Left
by Wendy Mills

In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.
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The Black Kids
by Christina Hammonds Reed

Enjoying the luxuries of a privileged life in 1992 Los Angeles, a black high school senior is unexpectedly swept up in the vortex of the Rodney King Riots while her closest friends spread a rumor that could derail a fellow black student’s future.
TEEN REALISTIC REED CHRISTINA
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell

Follow the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
TEEN REALISTIC ROWELL RAINBOW
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The Future of Us
by Jay Asher

Receiving her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM in 1996, student Emma and her best friend, Josh, log on and discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future, and learn astonishing things about their adult selves. 
TEEN SCI-FI ASHER JAY
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
by Emily M. Danforth

In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
TEEN REALISTIC DANFORTH EMILY
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky
by Melanie Crowder

In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
TEEN HISTORICAL CROWDER MELANIE
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