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Prehistory to 1775
- The listening silence / Phyllis Root ; paintings by Dennis McDermott.
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, c1992. Description 106 p.
Prehistory / A young Indian girl triumphs over her fears and proves herself worthy to be the mystical healer of her village. - The bronze bow.
- Publisher Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Description 255 p.
0 AD / When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. - El Cid / Geraldine McCaughrean ; illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus.
- Publisher Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. Description 126 p.
1043 / Subjects Cid, ca. 1043-1099 -- Juvenile fiction - Anna of Byzantium / by Tracy Barrett
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1999 Description 209 p.
1060 / In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy. - Winning his spurs: a tale of the crusades / by G.A. Henty
- Publisher Mill Hall, Penn. : Preston Speed Publications, 2000, 1997 Description 324 p.
1189 / Follows the exploits of a young English boy who travels to the Holy Land and serves in King Richard's army during the Crusades - The trumpeter of Krakow [by] Eric P. Kelly. Decorations by Janina Domanska. Foreword by Louis Seaman Bechtel.
- Publisher New York, Macmillan [1966] Description x, 208 p.
1241 / A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. - The story of Rolf and the Viking bow / by Allen French
- Publisher Vancouver, Wash. : Bethelehem Books, 1994 Description iv, 240 p.
1262 / Rolf, a young bowman in eleventh-century Iceland, faces many dangers as he tries to bring to justice the men responsible for his father's death. - Adam of the road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Robert Lawson.
- Publisher New York, The Viking press, 1942. Description 317 p
1294 / The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick. - The midwife's apprentice / by Karen Cushman.
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, c1995. Description 122 p.
1310 / In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. - Crispin : the cross of lead / Avi
- Publisher N Y : Hyperion Books For Children, 2002 Description 262 p
1350 / Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. - The door in the wall / by Marguerite de Angeli.
- Publisher New York : Doubleday, 1989, c1949. Descrip:120 p
1360 / A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. - Sees Behind Trees / Michael Dorris
- Publisher New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1996 Description 104 p.
1400 / A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty. - The black arrow; a tale of the two Roses. [By] Robert Louis Stevenson; illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
- Publisher New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1955, c1916. Description xii, 328 p.
1455 / Subjects Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 -- Fiction. - The Perilous Gard / Elizabeth Marie Pope ; illustrated by Richard Cuffari.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1992] c1974. Description 280 p
1558 / In 1558 while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in northern England, teenaged Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic. - The Shakespeare stealer / Gary Blackwood.
- Publisher New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998. Description 216 p.
1600 / A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. - A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple / by Kathryn Lasky
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, c1996 Description 173 p
1620 / Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World - I, Juan de Pareja [by] Elizabeth Borton de Trevino.
- Publisher New York, Bell Books [1965] Description 180 p.
1620 / Subjects Pareja, Juan de, 1606-1670 -- Juvenile fiction. Velazquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Juvenile fiction - The three musketeers / by Alexandre Dumas
- Publisher New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1990 , Description 302 p
1625 / Subjects France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Fiction. - The Dark Frigate : wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates / by Charles Boardman Hawes ; decorations by Warren Chappell.
- Publisher Boston : Joy Street Books, [198-?], c1971. Description xiii, 246 p.
1640 / A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew. - Trouble's daughter : the story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian captive / Katherine Kirkpatrick
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1998 Description 247 p.
1643 / When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape - Witch child / Celia Rees
- Publisher Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2002 Description 261 p.
1659 / 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. - Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson ; illustrated by Robert Ingpen.
- Publisher New York : Viking, 1992. Description 176 p.
1670 / While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. - Mutiny! / Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller ; [illustrations by Dominic Saponaro]
- Publisher New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002 Description 191 p
1680 / After arriving at the home of his disreputable uncle Patch, fourteen-year-old orphan Davy Shea finds himself embroiled in a failed mutiny aboard the HMS Retribution ending in death sentences for all involved, including his uncle. Pirate Hunter series. - The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Description 249 p.
1687 / In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan househod of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. - Tituba of Salem Village, by Ann Petry.
- Publisher New York, Crowell [1964] Description 254 p.
1692 / Salem Witch Trials. - Cecile : gates of gold / by Mary Casanova ; illustrations by Jean-Paul Tibbles
- Publisher Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Co. Publications, c2002 Description 191 p
1711 / In 1711, twelve-year-old Cecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious. - Anson's way / by Gary D. Schmidt
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, 1999 Description 213 p.
1740 / While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master places him in conflict with the law of King George II - Young George Washington : the making of a hero / John Rosenburg
- Publisher Brookfield, CT : Millbrook Press, 1997 Description 175 p.
1742 / A fictionalized biography, with emphasis on the early life, of the Virginia farmer's son who would eventually become a Revolutionary War leader and first President of the United States. - Calico bush. / Rachel Field, 1894-1942.
- Publisher Macmillan [1966] Description 201 p.
1743 / Set in Maine, 1743 - Prince Charlie's year / James D. Forman.
- Publisher New York : Scribner, c1991. Description 136 p.
1745 / In 1745 fourteen-year-old Colin joins his father to fight with Bonnie Prince Charlie in his attempt at the throne. - Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin, by Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis.
- Publisher Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [c1947] Description 147 p.
1746 / With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist. - King of the Wind/ Henry, Marguerite, 1902- ;
- Publisher Chicago, Rand McNally [1948] Description 172 p.
1757 / Traces the abuses and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the mute Arabian boy who tended him as long as he lived. - Indian captive : the story of Mary Jemison / written and illustrated by Lois Lenski
- Publisher New York, NY : HarperTrophy, a Division of HarperCollins, 1995, c1941 Description xvi, [2], 298
1758 / A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay - The beaded moccasins : the story of Mary Campbell / by Lynda Durrant.
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, 1998. Description 183 p
1759 / After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio. - Caesar's story, 1759 / by Joan Lowery Nixon
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press , 2000 Description 165 p.
1759 / After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future. - Standing in the light : the captive diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 / by Mary Pope Osborne
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, c1998 Description 184 p
1763 / A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763 - Nancy's story, 1765 / Joan Lowery Nixon
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 2000 Description 176 p
1765 / In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother - Night journeys / Avi.
- Publisher New York : Pantheon Books, c1979. Description 143 p
1768 / Two young indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania in the late 1700's and receive help from an unexpected source. - Stowaway / Karen Hesse ; with illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker
- Publisher New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000 Description 319 p.
1768 / A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. - The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1983. Descrip 135 p.
1769 / 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. - Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [c1955]. Description 251 p.
1770 / A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored the American Practical Navigator. - Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775 / Laurie Lawlor
- Publisher New York : Pocket Books, c1999 Description 185 p.
1775 / Subjects Wilderness Road -- Juvenile fiction Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction Adventure stories. - Marie : summer in the country France, 1775 / by Jacqueline Dembar Greene ; illustrated by Lyn Durham
- Publisher New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, c1997 Description 69 p.
1775 / In August, 1775, while spending a month on her cousin's farm in the French countryside, Marie takes care of her younger sisters, picks vegetables, and helps her cousin find a way to earn money so she won't be sent away from home
1776 to 1860
Revolutionary War
- Ben and me: a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse, Amos lately discovered by Robert Lawson.
- Revolutionary War / Banjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries.
- Hope's crossing by Joan Elizabeth Goodman.
- Revolutionary War / When kidnapped by English Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.
- The journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War patriot by Barry Denenberg.
- Revolutionary War / William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
- A little maid of Massachusetts Colony by Alice Turner Curtis.
- Revolutionary War / During the Revolutionary War, Anne Nelson journeys with Indians, is imprisoned, escapes, and helps capture an English privateer
- A little maid of old New York by Alice Turner Curtis.
- Revolutionary War / Ten-year-old Annette finds a way to prove her loyalty as a good American during the British occupation of New York City in the Revolutionary War
- Mr. Revere and I: being an account of certain episodes in the career of Paul Revere, Esq., as recently revealed by his horse, Scheherazade, late pride of his royal majesty's 14th regiment of foot by Robert Lawson.
- Revolutionary War / When Sam Adams rescued Sherry from the glue cart, little did he know he was creating an authority on the Revere family, the trade of the silversmith, and the doings of the Sons of Liberty.
- My brother Sam is dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier.
- Revolutionary War / Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
- Rebecca's war.
- Revolutionary War / Left in charge of her brother and sister in occupied Philadelphia in 1777, fourteen-year-old Rebecca's life is complicated further when two British soldiers are billeted in her house.
- Thomas : 1778 -- Patriots on the run by Bonnie Pryor.
- Revolutionary War / Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois.
- Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young by Esther Forbes.
- Revolutionary War / Johnny Tremain, a silversmith's apprentice, takes part in the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
1780-1860
1815 / Twelve-year-old Afro-American twins attempt to escape in the face of pirates, an American army, and the British forces during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
1816 / In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island.
1816 / In the early 1800s runaway slave John White travels with the Indian warrior Osceola to a settlement in Florida, where he fights to remain free and becomes intimately involved in the struggles of the Seminole Indians to save their land from the encroaching white man.
1820 / Determined to persuade the Viceroy to excuse Miguel from being called to service in the Peruvian mines in 1820, Isabella finds assistance from a totally expected source.
1828 / In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
1829 / Sixteen-year-old Rosita Trevino dreams of a better life, as does her book loving stepsister, Maria Alvarez. Neither girl can imagine the danger they will face when they run away and catch a steamboat bound for Texas.
1835 / Subjects Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction
1835 / In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
1835 / Twelve-year-old Jessie resents her father's decision to move his family to San Antonio where they are caught up in the revolution of 1835-1836 including the siege of the Alamo.
1840 / Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
1840 / Etta, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century Connecticut, meets a boy living in an abandoned cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal and has adventures with him while trying to be reunited with her siblings.
1845 / When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
1848 / Thirteen year-old Cesa has a wonderful life in the California of the 1840s, even if her great-aunt wants her to learn to fill a woman's place when she would rather ride the land. But her world is changing. Mexico has lost Upper California to the United States, and foreigners keep arriving, looking for land and gold.
1846 / A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans.
1846 / Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847.
1846-1860 / A young slave tries to hide the horrors of slavery from his younger cousin, a light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation owner.
1847/Julie and her family join a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon during the 1800s, enduring many challenges while on the difficult five-month journey.
1847 / In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
1847 / In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
1849 / After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
1849 / In 1849 eleven-year-old Luke leaves his family's farm home in Iowa, accepts his uncle's offer of a chance for an education, and travels with his relative to Boston.
1849 / Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.
1850's / In mid-nineteenth century London, three young boys try to retrieve a valuable roll of copper from the bottom of the Thames River.
1850 / A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
1850 / In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
1850 / A young woman befriends a Chinese family despite the racism and fear that overwhelm the residents of her small western mining town at the end of the gold rush.
1850 / Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
1851 / In 1851 orphans Hope and John are placed in a community of Shakers, where they encounter a way of life that is strange yet comfortable.
1852 / Everyone on the wagon train knew Harriet "Duck" Scott was looking for adventure as they left Illinois for the faraway Oregon Territory, but nothing could have prepared the Scott family for the dangers they were about to meet.
1852 / A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
1852 / After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.
1853 / A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
1853 / In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his black friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.
1854 / In the years before the Civil War, Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safehouse for the Underground Railroad and helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus.
1855 / In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
1856 / In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to her cousin Abigail.
1857 / Tess Macqueen and her father must make a difficult journey to Vancouver Island in 1857 after her mother dies and her family's castle is sold by her Uncle Hammond.
1857 / Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
1858 / While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.
1859 / In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
1860 / The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
1861 to 1899
Civil War
- Across five Aprils by Irene Hunt.
- Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
- Across the lines by Carolyn Reeder.
- Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
- Amelia's war by Ann Rinaldi.
- When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
- Amelina Carrett, Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863.
- When thirteen-year-old Amelina saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863, the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.
- Best of enemies by Suzanne Pierson Ellison.
- Three young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New Mexican rancher, a Navajo slave, and a young Texan soldier--who find themselves held for ransom by a pair of horse thieves learn to look beyond their differences.
- Bull Run by Paul Fleischman.
- 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.
- Burden of honor by Lee Roddy.
- Subjects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction. Slavery
- The bushwhacker by Jennifer Johnson Garrity.
- While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place.
- Captain Kate by Carolyn Reeder.
- Determined to take her father's coal-carrying barge on the C & O Canal from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in D.C., twelve-year-old Kate learns hurtful truths about herself.
- Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty.
- 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.
- A dangerous promise by Joan Lowery Nixon.
- After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
- Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies by Mary E. Lyons.
- Civil War /A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
- The dreams of Mairhe Mehan by Jennifer Armstrong.
- Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the Civil War on her family.
- The drummer boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler.
- In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
- Gentle Annie: the true story of a Civil War nurse by Mary Francis Shura.
- A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.
- Girl in blue by Ann Rinaldi.
- To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
- An island far from home by John Donahue.
- The twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
- Joseph: 1861 a rumble of war by Bonnie Pryor.
- After his stepfather becomes an abolitionist, ten-year-old Joseph struggles with his own thoughts about slavery as he sees its divisive power in his small Kentucky town.
- A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse.
- In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
- Private Captain: a story of Gettysburg by Marty Crisp.
- In 1863 Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in search of Ben's brother, who is missing from the Union Army.
- Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler.
- A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith.
- Cicil War by Subjects Watie, Stand, 1806-1871 -- Juvenile fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Shades of gray by Carolyn Reeder.
- 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.
- Shiloh by James Reasoner.
- Cory Brannon joins the crew of the riverboat Missouri Zephyr and must choose sides when the boat's crew is swept into the fighting for control of the river, and after a brief period as a prisoner, Cory finds himself taking up arms again at the Battle of Shiloh. Civil War Battle series
- Silent thunder: a Civil War story by Andrea Davis Pinkney.
- In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
- Three against the tide by D. Anne Love.
- After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.
- Turn homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty.
- Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.
- The 290 by Scott O'Dell.
- A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels.
- When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson by Barry Denenberg
- The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
- With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American by G.A. Henty
- Vincent Wingfield, not yet 16, and back in Virginia after four years of school in England, finds conditions in the South and the country unsettled. Before long, war breaks out and Vincent goes to fight for the South. The story weaves Vincent's adventures with the real life events and people of the Civil War, teaching history as it entertains and celebrating the virtues of family loyalty, honor, bravery, and determination in the face of adversity.
1860 - 1899
- Street child by Berlie Doherty.
- 1860: A novel based on the life of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in London in the 1860s and survives brutal treatment and desparate circumstances until he is taken by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's "ragged" children.
- Sing down the moon.
- 1864: A young Navaho girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
- Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864 by Laurie Lawlor.
- 1864: At the height of the Civil War, the Hitchcocks head west to Colorado to search for gold, braving the hardships and poverty of Denver to seek their fortune, in a story of the western frontier that comes to life in the secret journal of thirteen-year-old Eda Hitchcock.
- Alice Rose & Sam: a novel by Kathryn Lasky.
- 1865: Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares adventures with Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on her father's newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, during the 1860s.
- Bigger by Patricia Calvert.
- 1865: When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
- Fires of Jubilee by Alison Hart.
- 1865: It's 1865 in the conquered south and things are not as they were before the war. Thirteen-year-old Abby Joyner still lives on the plantation where she was raised, but she and her grandparents are free now and continue on for a small salary.
- David's search by Joan Lowery Nixon.
- 1866: After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.
- Aggie's home by Joan Lowery Nixon.
- 1866: A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
- The robber and me by Josef Holub.
- 1867: Because he knows that the man accused of robbery is innocent, an eleven-year-old orphan struggles to find the courage to reveal the truth to his uncle in their small German village in 1867.
- The land by Mildred D. Taylor.
- 1867: 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. Notes "Prequel to Newberry Medal Winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry".
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson.
- 1868: The story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country of the 1860s.
- The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West by Kristiana Gregory.
- 1868: As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.
- The promised land by Isabelle Holland.
- 1870: Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.
- Goodbye, Buffalo Sky by John Loveday.
- 1870: Cappy, who lives on the American frontier in the 1870s, must fight for the people he loves, including an Indian woman from the Mandan tribe.
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
- 1870: Rebecca is sent from the failing family farm to the home of her spinster aunt. However her aunt may not have known what she was getting into when she offered this free-spirited girl a home and an education.
- Forty acres and maybe a mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet.
- 1870: 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.
- Bluestem by Frances Arrington.
- 1870's: With their father away and their mother traumatized by some unknown event, eleven-year-old Polly and her younger sister are left to take care of themselves and their prairie homestead.
- The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy by Walter Dean Myers.
- 1871: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
- Children of the fire by Harriette Gillem Robinet.
- 1871: A young black girl named Hallelujah lives through the great Chicago fire with courage and resourcefulness.
- Grasshopper summer by Ann Turner.
- 1874: In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.
- Little house on the prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
- 1874: In this book as well as in other books in this series, Laura Ingalls Wilder depicts her girlhood experiences of frontier life centering on warm family relationships with authentic historical detail.
- Thunder rolling in the mountains by Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall.
- 1877: In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
- Graveyard girl by Anna Myers.
- 1878: During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard
- Riddle of the prairie bride by Kathryn Reiss.
- 1878: In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
- The staircase by Ann Rinaldi.
- 1878: In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
- Mr. Mysterious & Company by Sid Fleischman.
- 1880: The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s.
- Tuck everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
- 1881: The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
- Gold in the hills by Laurie Lawlor.
- 1882: When they are left with relatives while their father goes prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.
- West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi by Jim Murphy
- 1883: While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
- Addie's forever friend by Laurie Lawlor.
- 1885: While her father is looking for a homestead in the Dakotas, Addie and her mother and brothers spend the summer with her aunt and uncle in Sabula, Iowa, where she rescues her best friend during a flood and where her baby sister is born.
- The Gentleman Outlaw and me--Eli: a story of the Old West by Mary Downing Hahn.
- 1887: In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling towards Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes.
- Willie and the rattlesnake king by Clara Gillow Clark.
- 1888: subjects: runaway thirteen-year-old by traveling medicine show by Pennsylvania.
- Cousins in the castle by Barbara Brooks Wallace.
- 1890: A new friend comes to Amelia's rescue when she finds herself the victim of a dastardly villain's fiendish plans.
- Fields of home by Marita Conlon-McKenna.
- 1890: In latter part of the nineteenth century, their varied circumstances in Ireland and in America convince Peggy and Michael O'Driscoll and Eily O'Driscoll Powers of the importance of family.
- The twin in the tavern by Barbara Brooks Wallace.
- 1890: A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin.
- Daniel's story by Susan E. Kirby.
- 1891: Great-grandmother Tandy tells Lacey about a quilt given to their ancestor, Daniel, who, upset by the changes after his grandfather's death, leaves Illinois for South Dakota in 1891 to find his father, and learns about the Sioux Ghost Dance first-hand.
- Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman.
- 1894: The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
- Little farm in the Ozarks by Roger Lea MacBride.
- 1894: Subjects Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 -- Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri.
- Little house on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea MacBride.
- 1894: In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.
- Storm warriors by Elisa Carbone.
- 1895: Summary In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections.
- A coal miner's bride: the diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
- 1896: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
- Jason's gold by Will Hobbs.
- 1897: When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
- In care of Cassie Tucker by Ivy Ruckman.
- 1899: When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot."
1900 to 1940
- A shooting star : a novel about Annie Oakley / Sheila Solomon Klass
- Publisher New York : Holiday House, 1996 Description 173 p.
1900 / As one who prefers hunting over sewing, Annie Oakley breaks free from conventional behavior for girls and goes on to develop her talent as a sharpshooter and entertainer. - Clara and the hoodoo man / Elizabeth Partridge
- Publisher New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1996 Descrip 168 p.
1900 / In 1900, Clara always seems to find ways to worry her mother in their home near Red Owl Mountain, Tennessee, but when her younger sister is near death, Clara risks seeking the help of the herbal healer her mother calls a hoodoo man. - Dobry / by Monica Shannon.
- Publisher New York, The Viking press, 1934. Description 176 p.
1900 / A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer. - Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl / by Kathryn Lasky
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, 1998 Description 188 p.
1903 / Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904. - Daughter of Suqua / Diane Johnston Hamm
- Publisher Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1997 Description 154 p.
1905 / In the early 1900s as change comes to the village on Puget Sound where she lives, ten-year-old Ida Bowen worries about what is ahead for herself, her parents, beloved Little Grandma, and other members of the Suquamish people. - I am Lavina Cumming / Susan Lowell ; illustrated by Paul Mirocha.
- Publisher Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions, 1993. Description 198 p.
1905 / While staying with relatives in California after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Lavina sees the arrival of the automobile and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake. - Come away with me / Laurie Lawlor ; illus by Jane Kendall.
- Publisher N Y : Pocket Books, c1996. Descrip 184 p.
1908 / Madeline "Moe" McDonohugh finally finds adventure when her father buys a Ford Model T. - Black Gold / by Marguerite Henry ; illustrated by Wesley Dennis.
- Publisher Chicago : Rand McNally, c1957. Description 172 p.
1909 / A heroic small-boned horse with a will to win is finally ridden to glory by his devoted jockey. - Through the open door / Joy N. Hulme
- Publisher New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000 Description vi, 162 p.
1910 / Nine-year-old Dora, who has been kept out of school because of her speech impediment, dreams of learning to speak normally as her family joins a group of other Mormons journeying from Utah to New Mexico in 1910. - Escape from disaster : [a novel] / Peter Lerangis
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, c2000 Description 251 p.
1910 / "In the darkest hours of 1910, mutiny, doubt, and disaster threatened to destroy Jack Winslow's secret American expedition to discover the South Pole..." - Titanic crossing / by Barbara Williams.
- Publisher New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1995. Descrip 167 p.
1912 / In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking. - A Titanic journey across the sea, 1912 / Laurie Lawlor
- Publisher New York : Pocket Books, 1998 Descrip 201 p.
1912 / Subjects Titanic (Steamship) -- Juvenile fiction - Voyage on the great Titanic : the diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 / by Ellen Emerson White
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, 1998 Description 197 p.
1912 / In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking. - Anna all year round / by Mary Downing Hahn ; illustrated by Diane deGroat
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, c1999 Description 133 p.
1913 / Eight-year-old Anna experiences a series of episodes, some that are funny, others sad, involving friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I. - Ruthie's gift / Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ; illustrated by David Kramer
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1998 Description 150 p.
1914 / Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be. - Good-bye, Billy Radish / by Gloria Skurzynski.
- Publisher New York : Bradbury Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. Description 138 p.
1918 / In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, ten-year-old Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him. - Wings to fly / Celia Barker Lottridge ; illustrations by Mary Jane Gerber
- Publisher Vancouver ; Buffalo : Douglas & McIntyre, c1997 Description 209 p.
1918 / Subjects Canada -- Fiction - Farm life -- - Color me dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North / by Patricia C. McKissack.
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, 2000. Description 218 p.
1919 / Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind. - Joshua's song / Joan Hiatt Harlow
- Publisher New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002 Description 176 p
1919 / Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets. - Rosie in Chicago : play ball! / Carol Matas
- Publisher N Y : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003 Description 125 p
1920's / Rosie, disguised as a boy, becomes a substitute player for the all-male Chicago Chavarim baseball team - Will somebody please marry my sister? / by Eth Clifford ; illustrated by Ellen Eagle.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Description 122 p.
1920 / In 1920s' Brooklyn, Abel and friend Hilda try to find a husband for Abel's doctor sister to marry. - Gratefully yours / Jane Buchanan
- Publisher New York : Puffin Books, 1999 Description 117 p.
1923 / In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children. - The secret school / Avi
- Publisher San Diego : Harcourt, 2001 Description 153 p
1925 / In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. - Homesick, my own story / by Jean Fritz ; illustrated with drawings by Margot Tomes and photographs.
- Publisher New York : Putnam, c1982. Description 163 p.
1925 / The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's. - The midnight train home / Erika Tamar
- Publisher New York : Knopf, 2000 Description 204 p.
1927 / When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. Includes a note on the Children's Aid Society which operated the orphan trains from 1854 to 1930. - Rosa Moreno, Hollywood, California, 1934 / by Kathleen Duey
- Publisher New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999 Description 140 p.
1928 / Rosa dreams of becoming a movie star, so she's thrilled when she gets the chance to make her dreams come true. But in 1928 big changes are happening in Hollywood, changes that will alter the movie industry forever. Rosa's behind-the-scenes experiences make her question everything she's fantasized about. - Nowhere to call home / Cynthia DeFelice.
- Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Descrip 199 p.
1929 / When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo. - Purely Rosie Pearl / Patricia A. Cochrane
- PublisherNew York : Delacorte Press, c1996 Description 135 p.
1930's / In 1936 twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush and her family of migrants endure the hardships of the Great Depression as they find work picking fruit in the California Valley. - Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney.
- Publisher New York : Dial Press, c1976. Description 276 p.
1930's / A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. - A letter to Mrs. Roosevelt / C. Coco De Young
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1999 Description 105 p.
1930's / 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. - Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1999 Description 245 p.
1930's / Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. - A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck
- Publisher New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998 Description 148 p.
1930's / A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. - Treasures in the dust / Tracey Porter
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, 1997 Description 148 p.
1930's / Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma. - The happy yellow car / Polly Horvath.
- Publisher N Y : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. Description 151 p.
1930's / During the Depression, Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their bright twelve-year-old daughter to college, beginning a chain of events that teaches the Grunts the value of their family. - Red-dirt Jessie / Anna Myers.
- Publisher New York : Walker, 1992. Description 107 p.
1930's / Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown. - Grandpa's mountain / Carolyn Reeder.
- PublisherNew York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991. Description 171 p.
1930's / During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park. - Agnes May Gleason, Walsenburg, Colorado, 1932 / by Kathleen Duey
- Publisher New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998 Description 137 p.
1932 / In 1932, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him. - Babe and me : a baseball card adventure / Dan Gutman.
- Pub New York : Avon Books, 2000. Descrip 161 p.
1932 / With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. - The barn burner / Patricia Willis.
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, 2000. Description 196 p.
1933 / In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision. - Airfield / Jeanette Ingold
- Publisher New York : Puffin Books, 2001 Description 148 p
1933 / In 1933 fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small Texas airport waiting for visits from her pilot-father from whom she longs to learn about her deceased mother. - With wings as eagles / by Patsy Baker O'Leary
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997 Descrip 262 p.
1938 / In 1938 in rural North Carolina, twelve-year-old Bubba Hawkins finds himself in emotional turmoil when his father returns from prison to resume his life with his wife and sons and his black neighbors. - Amee-nah : Zuni boy runs the race of his life / Kenneth Thomasma ; Jack Brouwer, illustrator.
- Publisher Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, c1995. Description 155 p.
1939 / Nine-year-old Amee-nah, a Zuni boy with a club foot, gains hope of winning the annual stick-race when a doctor tells him about an operation that could help him. - The blue between the clouds / Stephen Wunderli.
- Publisher New York : H. Holt, c1992. Description 114 p.
1939 / Two Moons, an eleven-year-old Navajo boy living in Utah in 1939 in the home of his schoolmate Matt, becomes best friends with Matt and helps him pursue his dream of flying. - Spotting the leopard / Anna Myers
- Publisher New York : Walker and Co., 1996 Description 146 p.
1940 / In the late 1930s, H. J. Harper is intent on finding a way to help his older sister study to become a veterinarian and on tracking down a leopard that has escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City where his father is working on a W.P.A. project
1939 to 1971
World War II
- The cay.
- Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1969] Description 137 p.
WW II / When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. - The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins : a World War II soldier / by Walter Dean Myers
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, 1999 Description 140 p.
WW II / A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. - The journal of Ben Uchida, citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp / by Barry Denenberg
- Publisher New York : Scholastic Inc., 1999 Description 156 p.
WW II / Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. - My secret war : the World War II diary of Madeline Beck / by Mary Pope Osborne
- Publisher New York : Scholastic, 2000 Description 185 p
WW II / Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy. - To touch the stars : a story of world war II / by Karen Zeinert
- Publisher Lincolnwood, Ill. : Jamestown, c2000 Description 126 p.
WW II / Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction ; The Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) - Josie Poe : Palouse, Washington, 1943 / by Kathleen Duey
- Publisher New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999 Description 139 p.
WW II / Josie lives in the little farming town of Palouse, Washington, during World War II. She is ashamed of her older brother, Tom, who hasn't enlisted in the armed services. When a robbery seems to involve Tom, Josie has to find out the truth about her brother. - Theo / Barbara Harrison.
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, c1999. Description 166 p.
WW II / A twelve-year-old puppeteer performs bravely on and off the stage after joining the Greek resistance movement during World War II. - Room for a stranger / Ann Turnbull
- Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1996 Descrip 112 p.
WW II / Continues the adventures of the Dyer family as youngest daughter Doreen becomes jealous of older evacuee Rhoda who comes to stay with the family to escape the World War II bombing of London. - Keep smiling through / Ann Rinaldi
- Publisher San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1996 Description xiii, 188 p.
WW II / A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do. - Friends forever / by Miriam Chaikin ; drawings by Richard Egielski.
- Publisher New York : Harper & Row, cl988. Description 119 p.
WW II / As news of German victories on the battlefields and Nazi atrocities against the Jews comes over the radio, Mollie faces important decisions as she and her Brooklyn friends prepare to enter junior high school. - Daughter of light / Martha Attema ; [cover and interior illustrations by Stephen McCallum]
- Publisher Victoria, BC : Orca Book Publishers, c2001
WW II / When the Dutch population finds themselves without electrical power during the Nazi occupation, nine-year-old Ria takes matters into her own hands to ensure that her baby sister will be born in a warm home filled with light. - Don't you know there's a war on? / Avi
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, c2001 Description 200 p.
WW II / In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired. - Henry / Nina Bawden ; illustrated by Joyce Powzyk.
- Publisher New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1988. Description 119 p.
WW II / Evacuated to the English countryside during World War II. - Dawn of fear. Illustrated by Margery Gill.
- PublisherNew York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich [1970] Descrip 157 p.
WW II / Three English children, fascinated by the war air raids, gradually become aware of true fear and horror when they seek vengeance on an opposing gang that destroyed their hideaway. - To be a warrior / by Robert Barlow Fox
- Publisher Santa Fe, NM : Sunstone Press, c1997 Description 128 p.
WW II / Navajo Indians, World War II, Codetalkers, Juvenile Fiction. - Lily's crossing / Patricia Reilly Giff
- Publisher New York : Delacorte, 1997 Description 180 p.
WW II / 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. - Stones in water / Donna Jo Napoli
- PublisherNew York : Dutton Children's Books, 1997 Description 209 p.
WW II / After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice. - Foster's war / Carolyn Reeder
- Publisher New York : Scholastic Press, 1998 Description 267 p.
WW II / When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront. - The good liar / Gregory Maguire
- Publisher New York : Clarion Books, 1999 Description 129 p.
WW II / Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier. - A summer on Thirteenth Street / Charlotte Herman.
- Publisher New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1991. Description 181 p.
WW II / World War II affects Shirley Frances Cohen and her buddy Morton, Manny who joins the army, their parents, a German immigrant suspected of being a spy, and the other people in their Chicago neighborhood. - To touch the stars : a story of world war II / by Karen Zeinert
- Publisher Lincolnwood, Ill. : Jamestown, c2000 Description 126 p. : ill.
WW II / Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
Holocaust
- Dancing on the bridge of Avignon / Ida Vos ; translated by Terese Edelstein and Inez Smidt
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995 Description 183 p.
Holocaust / Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. - Good night, Maman / Norma Fox Mazer
- Publisher San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999 Description 185 p.
Holocaust / After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. - In my enemy's house / Carol Matas
- Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999 Description 167 p. ; 22 cm
Holocaust / When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive. - Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story / Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin.
- Publisher New York, N.Y. : Bantam Skylark, c1993. Description 117 p.
Holocaust / In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story. - Journey to America / by Sonia Levitin ; illustrated by Charles Robinson.
- Publisher New York : Atheneum, 1970. Description 150 p
Holocaust / A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united. - KatarÃna : a novel / Kathryn Winter
- Publisher New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998 Description 255 p.
Holocaust / During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as the war ends. - The key is lost / Ida Vos ; translated by Terese Edelstein.
- Publisher NY : HarperCollins, 2000. Descrip 271 p.
Holocaust / When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another. - Lydia, queen of Palestine / Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Description 170 p.
Holocaust / A young Rumanian Jewish girl describes her childhood in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. - Milkweed / Jerry Spinelli
- Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 Description 208 p.
Holocaust / Subjects Boys -- Juvenile fiction Jews -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction Warsaw (Poland) -- Juvenile fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Number the stars / Lois Lowry.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. Description 137 p.
Holocaust / 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. - When Hitler stole pink rabbit /illustrated by the author
- Publisher New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1972, c1971] Description 191 p.
Holocaust / Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.
1946 - 1975
- Anna is still here / Ida Vos ; translated by Terese Edelstein and Inez Smidt.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Description 139 p.
1946 / Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor. - When the soldiers were gone / Vera W. Propp
- Publisher New York : Putnam's, 1999 Description 101 p.
1946 / After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding. - Bat 6 / by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Publisher New York : Scholastic Press, 1998 Description 230 p.
1949 / In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. - The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant child / Francisco Jiménez
- Publisher Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1997 Description x, 134 p.
1950 / Subjects Mexican Americans -- California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Migrant agricultural laborers. - Down in the Piney Woods / Ethel Footman Smothers.
- Publisher New York : Knopf, c1992. Description 151 p.
1950 / The joys and frustrations of family life are portrayed through the eyes of Annie Rye, the ten-year-old daughter of a black sharecropper. - Listening for Leroy / Betsy Hearne
- Publisher New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998 Description 210 p.
1950 / Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, ten-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy. - The $66 summer / John Armistead ; illustrated by Fran Gregory.
- Publisher Minneapolis, MN. : Milkweed Editions, 2000. Description 213 p.
1955 / While working in his grandmother's store in Obadiah, Alabama, during the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old George becomes friends with two Black children with whom he stumbles onto evidence of a violent death. - Walking to the bus-rider blues / Harriette Gillem Robinet
- Publisher New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000 Description 146 p.
1956 / Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956. - The leaving summer / by Donal Harding.
- Publisher New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1996. Description 180 p.
1958 / subjects: prisoners / parent and child / juvenile fiction. - The girl who ate chicken feet/by Sandy Richardson
- Publisher NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998 Descrip 186p
1960 / As she grows up in Midville, South Carolina, in the 1960s, Sissy's life is especially shaped by her relationships with her grandparents, her mother, her bossy cousin, and the black woman who cooks for her family. - Spite fences / Trudy Krisher.
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, c1994. Description 283 p.
1960 / As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence, hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town. - Where you belong : a novel / by Mary Ann McGuigan
- Publisher New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997 Description 171 p.
1963 / In 1963, when thirteen-year-old Fiona runs away from home and ends up reunited with her former classmate Yolanda in an all-black neighborhood of the Bronx, their interracial friendship gives rise to both comfort and controversy. - This generation of Americans / Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr
- Publisher Lincolnwood, Ill. : Jamestown Publishers, 2000 Description 147 p.
1963 / "A story of the civil rights movement"--Cover - The return of Gabriel / John Armistead
- Publisher Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2002 Description 218p
1964 / In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year-old white boy whose best friend is black is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississippi. - Follow the leader / Vicki Winslow
- Publisher New York : Delacorte Press, 1997 Description 215 p.
1971 / In 1971 in a small North Carolina town, eleven-year-old Amanda must deal with being bussed to a newly integrated, formerly all-black school and being separated from her best friend, who has chosen a private school. - Songs of faith / Angela Johnson
- Publisher New York : Orchard Books, 1998 Description 103 p.
1975 / Living in a small town in Ohio in 1975 and desperately missing her divorced father, thirteen-year-old Doreen comes to terms with disturbing changes in her family life.
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