Armstrong, Jennifer. The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan.  Y FIC 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.

Ayres, Katherine.  North by Night.  Y FIC Ayres
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Beatty, Patricia.  Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee.  Y FIC Beatty
In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful.

Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days : A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32. Y FIC Blos  /  Y PB B
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Brink, Carol Ryrie.  Caddie Woodlawn.  Y FIC Brink // J PB B
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Buckey, Sarah Masters. The Smuggler's Treasure. Y FIC Buckley /  J PB B
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.

Conly, Jane Leslie.  Murder Afloat.  Y FIC Conly
In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands.

Conrad, Pam.  Prairie Songs.  Y FIC Conrad
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.

Cushman, Karen.  The Ballad of Lucy Whipple.  Y Fic Cushman
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.

Karr, Kathleen.  Go West, Young Women!  Y FIC Karr
When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.

Karr, Kathleen. Oh, Those Harper Girls!, or, Young and Dangerous. Y FIC Karr
In West Texas in 1869, Lily and her five older sisters participate in a series of misguided schemes to save their father's ranch.

Krantz, Hazel.  Look to the Hills.  Y FIC Krantz
Growing up in Colorado in the 1880s and 1890s, Sally finds that her Jewish faith has a significant effect on her social standing and her life in general.

Lasky, Kathryn.  Beyond the Divide. Y FIC Lasky
In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

McClung, Robert M.  Hugh Glass, Mountain Man.  Y FIC McClung // Y PB M
A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.

Matas, Carol.  Sworn Enemies.  Y FIC Matas
In nineteenth-century Russia, betrayed by a fellow Jew, sixteen-year-old Aaron is taken by officers of the Czar and forced into military service.

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Caught in the Act.  YPB N
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  High Trail to Danger.  Y FIC Nixon
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.

Paton Walsh, Jill.  Grace.  Y FIC Paton Walsh
After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national hero.

Pullman, Philip.  The Ruby in the Smoke.  YPB P
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Rinaldi, Ann.  The Blue Door.  Y FIC Rinaldi
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.

Rinaldi, Ann.  The Ever-After Bird. Y FIC Rinaldi
In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.

Twain, Mark.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  J FIC Twain  /  Y PB T
The adventures of a boy growing up in the 19th century in a Mississippi River town as he plays hooky, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure and gets lost in a cave.

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