Bunting, Eve.  S.O.S. Titanic.  Y FIC Bunting
Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.

Gee, Maurice.  The Fire-Raiser.   Y FIC Gee
In 1915 Kitty Wix and her friends try to stop the arsonist who is terrifying their small New Zealand town.

Hesse, Karen.  Letters From Rifka.  JPB H
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.

Hesse, Karen. A Time of Angels. Y FIC Hesse
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

Hurwitz, Johanna.  Faraway Summer. J FIC Hurwitz  //  J PB H
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.

Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the River Sea. Y FIC Ibbotson
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.

Ingold, Jeanette.  Pictures, 1918.  Y FIC Ingold
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.

Lasky, Kathryn.  Dreams in the Golden Country : The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl. Y FIC Lasky.  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.

Lehrman, Robert.  The Store That Mama Built. Y FIC Lehrman
In 1917 twelve-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his struggle to succeed in America.

Meyer, Carolyn.  Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess. (Royal Diaries) Y FIC Meyer
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Meyer, Carolyn.  Gideon's People.  Y FIC Meyer
Torn between youthful rebellion and their traditional heritages, two boys from very different cultures--one Amish, one Orthodox Jew--discover just how similar they really are.

Myers, Anna.  Fire in the Hills.  Y FIC Myers
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.

Peck, Richard. The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp. Y Fic Peck

Whelan, Gloria.  Angel on the Square.  Y FIC Whelan
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

11/9/04