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Ancient Egypt
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Cleopatra Confesses
by Carolyn Meyer

A tale inspired by the life of Queen Cleopatra follows her ascension to the throne at the age of 18, a rule that is marked by her relationships with two Roman leaders and the ruthless ambitions of her sisters. 
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Lights on the Nile
by Donna Jo Napoli

Ten-year-old Kepi, a young girl in ancient Egypt, embarks on a journey to save her family when she is unexpectedly taken captive along with the baby baboon she has rescued from a crocodile, in an "origin" tale about fairies.
Ancient Greece
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Lost in the Labyrinth
by Patrice Kindl

Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.
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Nobody's Princess
by Esther M. Friesner

Helen of Sparta, a beautiful princess, makes friends with huntress Atalanta and the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi when she sets out to define who she is and what she can accomplish.
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Waiting for Odysseus
by Clemence McLaren

Offers a fresh look at Homer's Odyssey through the stories of its four major women characters, including the seductress, Circe, and Odysseus's loyal wife, Penelope. 
Ancient Rome
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Fight for Freedom
by Simon Scarrow

After 11-year-old Marcus Cornelius Primus' father is murdered and his mother kidnapped and enslaved, Marcus is forced to fight as a gladiator, enduring years of brutal training while he secretly plots to avenge his father's death and rescue his mother.
TEEN HISTORICAL SCARROW SIMON
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Mark of the Thief
by Jennifer A Nielsen

Forced to enter a sealed cavern that reputedly holds the lost treasures of Caesar, slave Nic discovers an amulet imbued with divine power and finds himself at the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and spark a war.
TEEN FANTASY NIELSEN JENNIFER
Ancient Asia
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A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
TEEN HISTORICAL PARK LINDA
Middle Ages
Blood Red Horse
by K. M. Grant

With the knights of England headed to the Holy Land to fight King Richard's Crusade, Will and his trusty stead, Hosanna, leave behind Ellie to fight, but only time will tell if Will has what it takes to become a brave and noble knight.
TEEN HISTORICAL GRANT K.M.
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Breath
by Donna Jo Napoli

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden Medieval town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
TEEN HISTORICAL NAPOLI DONNA JO
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Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman

The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
HS LIST CATCHER
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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 must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive, in a suspenseful middle reader set in fourteenth-century England.
TEEN HISTORICAL AVI
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The Wicked and the Just
by Jillian Anderson Coats

In medieval Wales, follows Cecily whose family is lured by cheap land and the duty of all Englishmen to help keep down the "vicious" Welshmen, and Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl who must wait hand and foot on her new English mistress.
TEENS HISTORICAL COATS J ANDERSON
Renaissance
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The Player King
by Avi

In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne.
TEEN HISTORICAL AVI
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The Secret of the Rose
by Sarah L. Thomson

Transforming herself into a boy in order to get work as Christopher Marlowe's scribe, Rose finds herself in a dangerous situation when she discovers her employer is a spy who has suddenly decided to turn his sleuthing skills on her, in a fast-paced thriller set in London in 1592.
TEEN HISTORICAL THOMSON SARAH
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The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots
by Carolyn Meyer

Convicted of plotting against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England and awaiting execution, Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland, recounts her life story, including becoming a widow and her campaign to regain her sovereignty.
TEEN HISTORICAL MEYER CAROLYN
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Will Sparrow's Road
by Karen Cushman

In 1599 England, 12-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away from home, meets many colorful characters on the road and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" troupe, from whom he learns to see beyond appearances. 
TEEN HISTORICAL CUSHMAN KAREN
Colonial America
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Cate of the Lost Colony
by Lisa Klein

When her dalliance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered by Queen Elizabeth in 1587, lady-in-waiting Catherine Archer is banished to the struggling colony of Roanoke, where she and the other English settlers must rely on a Croatoan Indian for their survival.
TEEN HISTORICAL KLEIN LISA
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
by Ann Rinaldi

In a fictionalized account of the life of America's first published Black poet, Phillis Wheatley goes from being a slave in eighteenth-century Boston to the toast of London society. 
TEEN HISTORICAL RINALDI ANN
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The Ransom of Mercy Carter
by Caroline B. Cooney

.In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada.
TEEN HISTORICAL COONEY CAROLINE
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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.
TEEN HISTORICAL DUBLE KATHLEEN
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
HS LIST WITCH
French Revolution
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Madame Tussaud's Apprentice
by Kathleen Benner Duble

In 1789 Paris, Celie Rousseau lives on the streets stealing to survive, but when she is arrested she is given the remarkable opportunity to become an apprentice to Madame Tussaud, and as the Revolution begins, she must choose between her royal patrons and Algernon, the freedom fighter she loves.
TEEN HISTORICAL DUBLE KATHLEEN
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The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution
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
American Revolution
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Chains: Seeds of America
by Laurie Halse Anderson

When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
TEEN HISTORICAL ANDERSON LAURIE
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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. 
TEEN HISTORICAL ELLIOTT LAURA
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Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family
by Ann Rinaldi

With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother. 
TEEN HISTORICAL RINALDI ANN
Early 1800's
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Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
by Helen Frost

A novel in verse about two 12-year-old boys—a Miami tribe member and the son of traders—explores how their early 19th-century friendship was tested by rising tensions between Fort Wayne armies and Native Americans who sought to protect their homeland.
TEEN HISTORICAL FROST HELEN
Show Me a Sign
by Ann Clare LeZotte

The Deaf librarian and author of T4 draws on the true history of a thriving 19th-century Deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard in the story of a girl whose proud lineage is threatened by land disputes with the Wampanoag and a ruthlessly ambitious scientist.
TEEN HISTORICAL LEZOTTE ANN
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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The Water Seeker
by Kimberly Willis Holt

Traces the hard life--filled with losses, adversity and adventure--of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833, when his mother dies giving birth to him, until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
TEEN HISTORICAL HOLT KIMBERLY
Civil War
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Annie, Between the States
by Laura Elliott

While performing secret operations for the Confederates during the Civil War while her brother is away fighting, Annie is soon faced with a great personal conflict when she is befriended by a Union lieutenant who suddenly makes her think differently about the goals of the Confederacy and her role in the war. 
TEEN HISTORICAL ELLIOTT L.M.
 
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North by Night : A Story of the Underground Railroad
by Katherine Ayres

Set in Ohio in 1851, Lucy Spencer and her family are dedicated workers of the secret Underground Railroad, thus when she is asked to move away to help a widow run her home of runaway slaves, she is divided over her dedication to the cause and her desire to be with her family. 
TEEN HISTORICAL AYRES KATHERINE
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The River Between Us
by Richard Peck

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
TEEN HISTORICAL PECK RICHARD
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Silent Thunder : a Civil War story
by Andrea Davis Pinkney

As plantation slaves, siblings Rosco and Summer have no rights and fear that they may be sold on a moment's notice, thus to keep their family together, Summer tries to learn to read while Rosco plots a way to join the army to fight for his family's freedom. 
TEEN HISTORICAL PINKNEY ANDREA
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True North
by Kathryn Lasky

Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
TEEN HISTORICAL LASKY KATHRYN
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Two Girls of Gettysburg
by Lisa M. Klein

When the Civil War breaks out, two cousins, Lizzie and Rosanna, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict until the war reunites them in the town of Gettysburg.
TEEN HISTORICAL KLEIN LISA
The Victorian Era
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Airman
by Eoin Colfer

In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
TEEN FANTASY COLFER EOIN
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Constable & Toop
by Gareth P. Jones

In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL JONES GARETH
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Dodger
by Terry Pratchett

Surviving by his wits in an alternative-universe London ruled by a young Queen Victoria, the intrepid young Dodger inadvertently foils a murderous Sweeney Todd's operation and encounters numerous fictional and historical characters, including Darwin, Disraeli and Dickens.
TEEN HISTORICAL PRATCHETT TERRY
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The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
by Deborah Hopkinson

A tale set against a backdrop of the mid-19th-century London cholera epidemic follows the survival efforts of a young orphan who supports himself by selling scavenged items from a polluted River Thames and who helps a pioneering doctor identify the source of the virulent disease. 
TEEN HISTORICAL HOPKINSON DEBORAH
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Newt's emerald
by Garth Nix

Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, a Regency romance with a fantasy twist finds Lady Truthful disguising herself as a man in order to search through London to recover her stolen magical emerald. 
TEEN FANTASY NIX GARTH
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A Taste for Monsters
by Matthew J. Kirby

When the Jack the Ripper murders begin, Evelyn Fallow and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, find themselves haunted by the ghosts of his victims and Evelyn is obsessed with learning the killer's identity.
TEEN HISTORICAL KIRBY MATTHEW
Late 1800's and Early 1900's
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Ashes of Roses
by Mary Jane Auch

Once at Ellis Island, seventeen-year-old Rose Nolan quickly realized that America was very different from what she had expected and so had to quickly adjust to the reality of hard work in the factory to keep food on the table for her and her young sister. 
TEEN HISTORICAL AUCH MJ
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The Girl in the Torch
by Rob Sharenow

After her father is killed in a pogrom, 12-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America—but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island and the authorities want to send Sarah back to the old country, she hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty. 
TEEN HISTORICAL SHARENOW ROB
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Land of Hope
by Joan Lowery Nixon

Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
TEEN HISTORICAL NIXON JOAN
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt

Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor island community founded by slaves that the town fathers want to change into a tourist spot.
TEEN HISTORICAL SCHMIDT GARY
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Uprising
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In 1927, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including the miserable working conditions that led to a strike and the fire that took the lives of her two best friends.
TEEN HISTORICAL HADDIX MARGARET
View from Pagoda Hill
by Michaela MacColl

Ning, a Chinese American girl, struggles to find her place in the world and is forced to leave her home in Shanghai to go to America with a father she barely knows.
TEEN HISTORICAL MACCOLL MICHAELA
World War I
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Crossing Stones
by Helen Frost

When the boy she grew up with enlists to fight in World War I and her brother soon follows, 18-year-old Muriel's life is thrown into turmoil as she struggles to support those she loves and do what is expected of her while finding her own path in the world as an activist for women's suffrage.
TEEN HISTORICAL FROST HELEN
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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.
TEEN HISTORICAL LARSON KIRBY
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Soldier Dog
by Sam Angus

A tale inspired by a true story follows the World War I experiences of 14-year-old Stanley, who upon joining the war effort to escape his father's rages is assigned to the experimental War Dog School, where he trains a problematic Great Dane with whom he attempts to find his missing soldier brother. 
TEEN HISTORICAL ANGUS SAM
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Stay Where You Are & Then Leave
by John Boyne

Four years after his father goes missing while fighting in World War I, Alfie, a young shoe-shine boy at King's Cross Station, unexpectedly discovers his father in a nearby hospital and is introduced to the phenomenon of shell shock. 
TEEN HISTORICAL BOYNE JOHN
1920's and 1930's
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Dave at Night
by Gail Carson Levine

When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys in 1926, where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. 
TEEN HISTORICAL LEVINE GAIL
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Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. 
TEEN HISTORICAL RYAN PAM
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Harlem Summer
by Walter Dean Myers

Set on the hot city streets of Harlem in 1925, Mark Purvis is thrilled when he is given a simple job by Fats Waller, Harlem's musical genius, yet when the task goes wrong and a gangster ends up on his tail, young Mark thinks his days of impressing Fats with his skills on the saxophone may now be over. 
TEEN HISTORICAL MYERS WALTER
Luck of the Titanic
by Stacey Lee

Stowing away aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage when her British-Chinese heritage bars her from joining her twin in America, a young acrobat struggles to hide and then survive when the unthinkable happens.
TEEN HISTORICAL LEE STACEY
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse

A poem cycle that reads as a novel narrates the story of fifteen-year-old Billie Jo and her battle against the elements during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of 1934. 
TEEN HISTORICAL HESSE KAREN
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The Sittin' Up
by Shelia P Moses

The National Book Award Finalist returns to the setting of The Legend of Buddy Bush in the aftermath of Bean's adopted grandfather's death, a painful loss which prompts a community wake that is overshadowed by an impending storm.
TEEN HISTORICAL MOSES SHELIA
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Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper

When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
TEEN HISTORICAL DRAPER SHARON
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Sweet Home Alaska
by Carole Estby Dagg

Moving to the Alaskan frontier in the 1930s when the mill in her small Wisconsin town closes, Trip revels in her new home's pioneer environment and starts a library with her friends before aspiring to raise money for a piano to cheer up her unhappy mother. 
TEEN HISTORICAL DAGG CAROLE
World War II
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The Ausländer
by Paul Dowswell

German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
TEEN HISTORICAL DOWSWELL PAUL
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Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
by Adeline Yen Mah

Set during World War II, a young Chinese girl made homeless by her evil stepmother begins a new life as a martial-artist and spy, joining the Chinese resistance movement to work against the occupying Japanese and free her people from their vicious reign. 
TEEN HISTORICAL MAH ADELINE
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Joseph Bruchac

Using their native language, the Navajo Marines played an invaluable part in World War II as they sent messages, did maneuvers, and completed tasks with words that couldn't be deciphered by the enemy.
TEEN HISTORICAL BRUCHAC JOSEPH
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Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli

The hardship and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II is captured through the eyes of a young Jewish orphan who must use all his wit and courage to survive unimaginable circumstances.
TEEN HISTORICAL SPINELLI JERRY
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Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry

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.
HS LIST NUMBER
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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 in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
TEEN HISTORICAL SEPAHBAN LOIS
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Prisoner B-3087
by Alan Gratz

A book based on the life of Jack Gruener relates the story of his survival during the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was 11 years old, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
TEEN HISTORICAL GRATZ ALAN
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Torn Thread
by Anne Isaacs

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends the twelve-year-old from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war. 
TEEN HISTORICAL ISAACS ANNE
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Weedflower
by Cynthia Kadohata

When the only world she ever knew is turned upside-down after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her family is 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 to manage the difficult times ahead. 
TEEN HISTORICAL KADOHATA CYNTHIA
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Willow Run
by Patricia Reilly Giff

During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her. 
TEEN HISTORICAL GIFF PATRICIA
1950s-1960s and the Civil Rights Era
The Colors of the Rain
by R. L. Toalson

After his father is killed, Paulie is sent to live with his Aunt Bee in Houston, a city fighting desegregation, but as Paulie gets into fights with an African American boy, he is forced to accept that his father died defending his African American best friend.
TEEN HISTORICAL TOALSON R.L.
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Down Sand Mountain
by Steve Watkins

In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.
TEEN HISTORICAL WATKINS STEVE
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
by Daven McQueen

In the summer of 1955, biracial Ethan is sent to small-town Alabama to spend time with his aunt and uncle. There, his Blackness is front and center, and the townspeople make it clear he is not welcome. When he meets Juniper Jones, an open, accepting friend, he begins to learn what it means to be Black in America.
TEEN HISTORICAL MCQUEEN DEVON
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The Legend of Buddy Bush
by Shelia P Moses

In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
TEEN HISTORICAL MOSES SHELIA
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Loving vs. Virginia
by Patricia Hruby Powell

A tale inspired by the landmark 1955 civil rights case follows the relationship between two young people who challenged period segregation, prejudice and injustice to pursue a relationship at the center of a Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage. 
TEEN HISTORICAL POWELL PATRICIA
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A Night Divided
by Jennifer A Nielsen

When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West, and now four years later, Gerta sees her father and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
TEEN HISTORICAL NIELSEN JENNIFER
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One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia

In the summer of 1968, while visiting the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two younger sisters discover that their mother is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
TEEN HISTORICAL WILLIAMS-GARCIA RITA
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
TEEN HISTORICAL CURTIS CHRISTOPHER
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The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D Schmidt

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
TEEN HISTORICAL SCHMIDT GARY
Vietnam War and 1970's
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Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
by Cynthia Kadohata

Trained to sniff out bombs and traps, Cracker the German Shepherd is prepared for action in Vietnam, but when she is teamed up with Rick, a young man whose family doubts he can handle infantry life, the new soldier must find a way to build trust between the two so that they can do their jobs well and make it back alive. 
TEEN HISTORICAL KADOHATA CYNTHIA
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I Pledge Allegiance
by Chris Lynch

Enlisting as a group when one of them is drafted into the Vietnam War, best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck pledge their loyalty to one another before reporting to different branches of service.
TEEN HISTORICAL LYNCH CHRIS
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Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
TEEN HISTORICAL LAI THANHHA
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Kaleidoscope Eyes
by Jennifer Bryant

In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
TEEN HISTORICAL BRYANT JENNIFER
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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.
TEEN HISTORICAL SHERLOCK PATTI
One True Way
by Shannon Hitchcock

From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day of middle school, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left.
TEEN HISTORICAL HITCHCOCK SHANNON
1980's and Beyond
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After Tupac & D Foster
by Jacqueline Woodson

Listening to rap music and thinking they understand challenging times on the streets, Neeka and her best friends in their safe community in Queens come to realize differently after befriending D, a young girl with a hard past and numerous foster families, who begins to open up about her real life experiences and struggles.
TEEN HISTORICAL WOODSON JACQUELINE
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Finding Someplace
by Denise Lewis Patrick

When Hurricane Katrina hits her New Orleans community on her 13th birthday, aspiring fashion designer Reesie takes refuge with an elderly neighbor and faces the daunting challenge of rebuilding her family home. 
TEEN HISTORICAL PATRICK DENISE
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The Memory of Things
by Gae Polisner

Racing to safety after witnessing the first Twin Tower collapse on September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle, having been separated from his family, impulsively brings home a traumatized girl who has forgotten who she is.
TEEN HISTORICAL POLISNER GAE
Cover of "The Summer I Learned to Fly"
The Summer I Learned to Fly
by Dana Reinhardt

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
TEEN HISTORICAL REINHARDT DANA
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