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Across Five Aprils
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Irene Hunt
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This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
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Elizabeth Yates
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The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
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Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
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Jim Murphy
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On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...
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Bull Run
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Paul Fleischman
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Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...
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Close to Shore
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Michael Capuzzo
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During the summer of 1916, just as railroad travel enabled city dwellers to make day-trips to the seashore and swimming in the ocean became popular, bathers along the East Coast were frightened away by a series of vicious attacks in the water.
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Double Life of Pocahontas
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Jean Fritz
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A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
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Morning Girl
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Michael Dorris
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Through the alternating voices of 12 year old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinary rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492…
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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James Lincoln Collier
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The Revolutionary War! A war with no clearcut loyalties -- dividing families, friends and towns. A story rich in historical detail and action as told from the viewpoint of young Tim Meeker.
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Night
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Elie Wiesel
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The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...
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On Board the Titanic
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Shelley Tanaka
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Told through the eyes of two young survivors, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's biggest ship plunged to the bottom of the ocean.
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Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Joseph Bruchac
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Two narrators bring alive the voices of Sacajawea and William Clark as they live through their amazing journey across the US in 1804.
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The Birchbark House
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Louise Erdrich
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Award-winning author Erdrich weaves a vital and dramatic novel of a year in the life of a young Ojibwa girl in the mid-1800's.
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The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre
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Ann Rinaldi
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Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh is nanny to John and Abigail Adams' children and witnesses firsthand how tension builds in the feisty New England town in the two years before it erupts in the Boston Massacre.
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The Great Fire
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Jim Murphy
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A colossal disaster, the Great Fire of 1871 caused damaged so profound to Chicago that few people believed the city could ever rise again.
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