| Title/Author/Description |
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A. Lincoln and Me
/ Louise Borden; illustrated by Ted Lewin
-Summary: With the help of his teacher, a young
boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical
appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways
as well. (Fiction)
-Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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PZ7.B64827 An 1999 |
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The Art of Keeping Cool
/ Janet Taylor Lisle
-Summary: In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot
uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents'
Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist
who is suspected of being a spy. (Fiction)
-Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Rhode Island |
PZ7.L6912 Ar 2000 |
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Baseball Saved Us
/ Ken Mochizuki; illustrated by Dom
Lee -Summary: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his
family are forced to live in an internment camp during World
War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is
over. (Fiction)
-Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Prejudices |
PZ7.M71284
Bas 1993 |
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The Bomb
/ Theodore Taylor
-Summary: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the
Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that
the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his
island home from a much more deadly threat. (Fiction)-Subject: Atomic bomb -- Marshall Island -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing
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PZ7.T2186
Bo 1995 |
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Bull Run
/ Paul Fleischman; woodcuts by David Frampton
-Summary: Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and
worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and
the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War. (Fiction)-Subject: Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
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PZ7.F599233
Bu 1993 |
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Charley Skedaddle
/ Patricia Beatty
-Summary: During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York
City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle
in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman. (Fiction)-Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Mountain life; Virginia
|
PZ7.B380544
Ch 1987 |
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Esperanza Rising
/ Pam Munoz Ryan
-Summary: 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. (Fiction)-Subject: Mexican Americans -- California
|
PZ7.R9553
Es 2000 |
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The Fighting Ground
/ Avi
-Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary
War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. (Fiction)-Subject: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
|
PZ7.A953
Fi 1984 |
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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
/ Harriette Gillem Robinet
-Summary: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve
years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and
the freedom which it promises. (Fiction)-Subjects: Afro-Americans; Reconstruction; United States -- History -- 1865-1898
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PZ7.R553 Fo 1998 |
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The Friendship
/ Mildred D. Taylor; pictures by Max Ginsburg
-Summary: Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black
man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. (Fiction)-Subjects: African Americans; Southern States -- Race relations; Race relations; Prejudices
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PZ7.T21723
Fr 1987 |
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I Have Heard of a Land
/ Joyce Carol Thomas; illustrated by
Floyd Cooper
-Summary: Describes the joys and hardships experienced by an African-
American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the
Oklahoma territory. (Fiction)-Subjects: Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1889; African Americans
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PZ7.T36696
Iae 1998 |
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A Jar of Dreams
/ Yoshiko Uchida
-Summary: A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family
in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice. (Fiction)-Subjects: Japanese Americans; Family life; Prejudices
|
PZ7.U25
Jar |
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Jip : His Story
/ Katherine Paterson
-Summary: While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip
learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to
understand how he arrived at this place. (Fiction)-Subjects: Identity; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; African Americans
|
PZ7.P273
Ji 1996 |
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The Keeping Quilt
/ Patricia Polacco
-Summary: A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of
an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their
enduring love and faith. (Fiction)-Subjects: Jews; Emigration and immigration
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PZ7.P75186
Ke 1988 |
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The Land
/ Mildred D. Taylor
-Summary: After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black
mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored
folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of
his own. (Fiction)-Subjects: Racially mixed people; African Americans; Prejudices; Race relations; Southern States; Coretta Scott King Award
|
PZ7.T21723
Lan 2001
(JUV CORETTA S KING) |
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken
/ Mildred D. Taylor
-Note: Sequel to: Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (Fiction)
-Subjects: African Americans; Southern States -- Race relations; Mississippi -- Social life and customs
|
PZ7.T21723
Le
(JUV CORETTA S KING) |
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
/ C. Coco De Young
-Summary: Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a
letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her
family's home during the Great Depression. (Fiction)-Subjects: Depressions -- 1929; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
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PZ7.D5413 Le 1999 |
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Lily's Crossing
/ Patricia Reilly Giff
-Summary: During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's
friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the
war and her own world differently. (Fiction)-Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; Refugees
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PZ7.G3626 Li 1997 |
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The Mary Celeste : An Unsolved Mystery from
History
/ Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple; illustrated by Roger
Roth -Summary: A young girl relates the facts that are known about the
unexplained disappearance of the crew on the ship Mary Celeste
in 1872, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery. (Fiction)-Subject: Mary Celeste (Brig)
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PZ7.Y78 Mar 1999 |
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Mississippi Bridge
/ Mildred D. Taylor; pictures by Max Ginsburg -Summary: During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-
old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers
off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white
passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River. (Fiction)-Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Prejudices; Southern States -- Race relations
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PZ7.T21723
Mi 1990 |
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Morning Girl
/ Michael Dorris -Summary: Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star
Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on
an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last
narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to
her world. (Fiction)-Subject: Arawak Indians
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PZ7.D7287
Mo 1992 |
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Nine for California
/ Sonia Levitin; illustrated by Cat
Bowman Smith -Summary: Amanda travels by stagecoach with her four siblings and her
mother from Missouri to California to join her father. (Fiction)-Subjects: Coaching (Transportation); Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
|
PZ7.L58
Ni 1996 |
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Out of the Dust
/ Karen Hesse -Summary: 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 Depression. (Fiction)-Subjects: Depressions -- 1929; Dust storms; Farm life -- Oklahoma; Oklahoma; Newbery Medal
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PZ7.H4364
Ou 1997 |
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Ox-Cart Man
/ Donald Hall; pictures by Barbara Cooney -Summary: Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of
an early 19th-century New England family. (Fiction)
|
PZ7.H14115
Ox
(JUVENILE CALDECOTT) |
|
The Road to Memphis
/ Mildred D. Taylor -Summary: In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in
rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire
iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. (Fiction)
|
PZ7.T21723
Rm 1992
(JUV CORETTA S KING) |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
/ Mildred D. Taylor; frontispiece
by Jerry Pinkney -Summary: A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced
with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't
understand. (Fiction)
|
PZ7.T21723
Ro
(JUVENILE NEWBERY) |
|
Sarah, Plain and Tall
/ Patricia MacLachlan -Summary: When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with
them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by
their new mother and hope that she will stay. (Fiction)
|
PZ7.M2225
Sar 1985 |
| Shades
of Gray / Carolyn Reeder -Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his
immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia
countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because
he refused to take part in the war. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
Orphans; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Conscientious
objectors; Virginia
|
PZ7.R25416
Sh 1989 |
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The Sign of the Beaver
/ Elizabeth George Speare -Summary:
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. (Fiction) |
PZ7.S7376
Si 1983 |
|
Song of the Trees
/ Mildred D. Taylor -Summary:
During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to
the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down
by an unscrupulous white man. (Fiction) |
PZ7.T21723
So |
|
The Star Fisher
/ Laurence Yep
-Summary: Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her
family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia
in the 1920s. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
Chinese Americans; Prejudices; Moving, Household
|
PZ7.Y44
St 1991 |
|
Stepping on the Cracks
/ Mary Downing Hahn
-Summary: In 1944, while her brother is overseas
fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of
the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an
army deserter, and decides to help him. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; Bullies
|
PZ7.H1256
St 1991 |
|
Streams to the River, River to the Sea :
A Novel of Sacagawea
/ Scott O'Dell
-Summary: A young Indian woman, accompanied
by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when
she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
(Fiction)
-Subjects:
Sacagawea; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Indians of North America
|
PZ7.O237
St 1986 |
|
Trouble Don't Last
/ Shelley Pearsall
-Summary: Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky
slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt
to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
Fugitive slaves; Slavery; African Americans; Race relations; Underground railroad; Old age
|
PZ7.P3166
Tr 2002 |
|
Two Suns in the Sky
/ Miriam Bat-Ami
-Summary: In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager
named Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew
living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that they
do not belong together. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
Refugees, Jewish -- New York (State) -- Oswego; Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter; Jews -- New York (State) -- Oswego; Holocaust survivors -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
|
PZ7.B2939 Tw 1999 |
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
/ Graham Salisbury
-Summary: Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns
are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese
family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
in December 1941. (Fiction)
-Subjects:
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Americans; Hawaii
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PZ7.S15225
Un 2001 |
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Wagons west!
/ Roy Gerrard
-Summary: A rhyming story of a family's move
by wagon train between Missouri and Oregon in the 1850's and their daughter's
role in outwitting cattle thieves.(Fiction)
-Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific; Frontier and pioneer life
|
PZ8.3.G323
Wag 1996 |
|
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
/ Christopher Paul Curtis
-Summary: 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.(Fiction)
-Subjects:
African Americans; Family life; Prejudices; Brothers and sisters; Flint (Mich.); Newbery honor book
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PZ7.C94137
Wat 1995 |
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The Well : David's Story
/ Mildred D. Taylor
-Summary: In Mississippi in the early 1900s
ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water
with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial
violence.(Fiction)
-Subjects:
African Americans; Race relations; Southern States -- Race relations; Prejudices; Droughts
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PZ7.T21723
We 1995 |
|
The Year of Miss Agnes
/ Kirkpatrick Hill
-Summary: 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.(Fiction)
-Subjects:
Schools; Teachers; Athapascan Indians; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Alaska
|
PZ7.H55285 Ye 2000 |
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