Publisher: Berkley Jam Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780425182789
ISBN-10: 0425182789

Each succeeding spring brings Jethro Creighton, a brave, young Illinois boy, closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1993
ISBN-13: 9780060214463
ISBN-10: 0060214465

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.

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Publisher: Delacorte
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780385320733
ISBN-10: 0385320736

In 1861, motivated by dreams of glory on the battlefield, young Mike Kelly joins the Union Army as a drummer boy, only to discover the true horrors of war during the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek.

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780689823794
ISBN-10: 0689823797

Based on a true story, two women, an abolitionist and a daughter of a freed slave, work together on an undercover project for the Union cause during the Civil War.

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Publisher: Troll Associates
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/1988
ISBN-13: 9780816713172
ISBN-10: 0816713170

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.

Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780439023443
ISBN-10: 0439023440

As the first child born into freedom in a Canadian town for runaway slaves, eleven-year-old Elijah finds himself on a dangerous journey to America to track down an unscrupulous former slave who stole the money from his friend, Mr. Leroy, that was intended to buy his family their freedom from slavery. 75,000 first printing.

Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1991
ISBN-13: 9780688098506
ISBN-10: 0688098509

In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.

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Publisher: Lodestar Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1996
ISBN-13: 9780525675433
ISBN-10: 0525675434

Raised on a poor Vermont farm after tumbling off the back of a wagon as a small child, Jip is astonished years later when a slave catcher reveals that he is the son of a runaway slave and that he is the property of a slave owner.

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/08/2006
ISBN-13: 9780385908986
ISBN-10: 0385908989

Recreates the mythology of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, a black man born into slavery who became the most successful lawman of the Wild West, bringing hundreds of fugitives to justice with such courage and honor that he became a legend.

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Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780786805334
ISBN-10: 0786805331

While most slaves are being freed now that the Civil War has ended, Eulinda's younger brother has been sold after being falsely accused of stealing and her older brother has run away, leaving thirteen-year-old Eulinda alone in a household headed by a cruel mistress and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter.

Publisher: Walker
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1988
ISBN-13: 9780802768179
ISBN-10: 0802768172

A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Publisher: Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780679993070
ISBN-10: 067999307X

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.

Publisher: Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780375814907
ISBN-10: 0375814906

Dragged from his bed one night by a fellow slave, eleven-year-old Samuel finds himself on an unexpected, dangerous, and frightening journey north along the Underground Railroad on his way to find freedom in Canada.

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Publisher: W. Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1984
ISBN-13: 9780688038717
ISBN-10: 0688038719

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.

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Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780399238611
ISBN-10: 0399238611

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister Natalie.

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/23/2005
ISBN-13: 9780385732956
ISBN-10: 0385732953

Living in bustling New York City at the turn of the century, five sisters share a special bond as they learn from one another, celebrate the holidays together, visit their father's shop on rainy days, and grow into the young women they were destined to be.

Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/04/2006
ISBN-13: 9780618654796
ISBN-10: 0618654798

Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. By the author of The Same Stuff as Stars.

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780385323062
ISBN-10: 0385323069

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.

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Publisher: Thorndike Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780786229727
ISBN-10: 0786229721

When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780439120418
ISBN-10: 0439120411

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.

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780763613259
ISBN-10: 0763613258

In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from different ethnic backgrounds, twelve-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school as he watches those around him struggle with various financial difficulties.

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Publisher: H. Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/15/1992
ISBN-13: 9780805019643
ISBN-10: 0805019642

Addressing her journal entries to the cousin she left behind, Rifka recounts her flight from the pogroms of 1919 Russia, enduring sickness, separation from her family, and a voyage across the Atlantic.

Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/24/2004
ISBN-13: 9780618439294
ISBN-10: 0618439293

Having befriended Lizzie, a young girl who lives on an island community founded by former slaves, Turner begins to experience many disapproving looks from those in the community, yet it doesn't change the way he feels and even makes him more determined to stand with her when developers make a shady deal to push Lizzie and her people off their island home.

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780060790943
ISBN-10: 0060790946

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.

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Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780803722903
ISBN-10: 0803722907

Year after year, Joey and Mary Alice go to visit their Grandma in her quiet town in Illinois, but with every summer that passes, things become increasingly odd in this collection of amusing adventure stories.

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/12/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385738835
ISBN-10: 0385738838

Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father’s exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town’s secret history.

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Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780590360807
ISBN-10: 0590360809

In a series of poems, fourteen-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.

Publisher: Dial Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1976
ISBN-13: 9780803774735
ISBN-10: 0803774737

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/21/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689871368
ISBN-10: 0689871368

Living in his boring town, Eben McAllister begrudgingly accepts his father’s challenge to locate the Seven Wonders in Sassafras in order to win the prize of a family trip to Colorado and, in the process, discovers the magic that lies within his community that he had never taken notice of before.

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Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780688127961
ISBN-10: 0688127967

Disgusted by the inactivity and helplessness of his family and neighbors, Shadrach Faherty sets out to take on the group of liquor smugglers terrorizing his island home, in a story set during the Depression and Prohibition period. Reissue.

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1969
ISBN-13: 9780060201449
ISBN-10: 0060201444

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

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Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375836886
ISBN-10: 0375836888

Set in 1935, during the Great Depression, an 11-year-old girl nicknamed Turtle goes to live with relatives in Key West, Florida, after her mother takes a job as a housekeeper for a woman who does not like children; as a result, Turtle's world opens up in many unexpected ways, and she finds herself coming out of the shell she has spent her whole life building.

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