Avi. Don't You Know There's a War On?  Y FIC Avi
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Y Fic Avi/ Y PB A
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.

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

Barth-Grözinger, Inge.  Something Remains.  Y FIC Barth-Grozinger
In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.

Brown, Don. The notorious Izzy Fink .  Y FIC Brown
In the 1890's, thirteen-year-old Sam copes with poverty and violence on the streets of New York's Lower East Side.

Collier, James Lincoln.  The Jazz Kid.  Y FIC Collier
Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.

Collier, James. My Brother Sam Is Dead.  YPB C
Tragedy strikes the Meeker family when the oldest son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to remain neutral during the American Revolution.

Couloumbis, Audrey. The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble rides a fast horse. Y FIC Couloumbis
After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Y FIC Crane / YPB C
Henry Fleming's attitude towards war changes while he is a union soldier.

Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, Not Buddy. Y FIC Curtis  /  Y PB C //  LT Y FIC Curtis
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.

Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy.  Y FIC Cushman/YPB C
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father who wants to marry her off?

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.  YPB D / (Adult) FIC Dickens / PB FIC D
The lives of Alexander Manette and his daughter Lucie and those of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton become entangled during the French Revolution

Fleischman, Paul. The Borning Room.  Y FIC Fleischman
In remembering how many turns in her life took place in the borning room next to her family kitchen, Georgina recounts the personal affects of the Civil War and the Underground Railroad.

Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia.  Y FIC Fleischman
William, a Narraganset Indian apprentice to a printer, shows how early American colonial life was for those less fortunate.

Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge.   Friends and Enemies.  Y FIC Gaeddert
In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.

Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's Crossing.  Y FIC Giff / Y PB G // LT Y FIC Giff
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.

Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier. Y FIC Greene/ Y PB G
A twelve-year-old Jewish girl shelters an escaped German prisoner of war in WWII Arkansas.

Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Shadows on the Sea.  Y FIC Harlow
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.

Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.  Y FIC Hesse/ Y PB H
In a series of poems, fifteen-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.

Hobbs, Will.  Jason's Gold.  Y FIC Hobbs
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.

Hudson, Jan. Dawn Rider.  J FIC Hudson
Though she has hidden her early morning encounters with her Blackfoot tribe's first horse, sixteen-year-old Kit's riding experience proves vital during battle

Koller, Jackie French.   Nothing to Fear. Y Fic Koller
When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.

LaFevers. R.L.  The Falconmaster.  Y FIC LaFevers
Ten-year-old Wat, a crippled boy living in Norman England, rescues two baby falcons and is lead to discover the grandfather he never knew and the powerful magic that resides in the deep forest and in himself

Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Burning Time.  Y FIC Lasky
Witchcraft fever has hit Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600's, and Mary's mother is accused, convicted and sentenced to be hanged.

Lawrence, Iain.  The Smugglers. Y FIC Lawrence
In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.

Meyer, Carolyn.  White Lilacs.  Y FIC Meyer
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when  the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.

Morpurgo, Michael. Waiting for Anya.  Y FIC Morpurgo
In World War II France, young Jo helps Benjamin hide Jewish children from the Germans and conduct them over the mountain to safety in Spain.

Namioka, Lensey. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break.  Y FIC Namioka
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.

Orlev, Uri. The Man from The Other Side. Y FIC Orlev
Through the maze of filthy sewers under Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage Marek has to help his rough Polish stepfather smuggle food and arms to the desperate Jews in the walled-up ghetto.

Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie.  Y FIC Paterson/ Y PB P // LT Y FIC Patterson
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1840s

Peck, Richard.  A Long Way from Chicago : A Novel in Stories.  Y FIC Peck // Y PB P
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

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.

Rinaldi, Ann. Mine Eyes Have Seen.  Y FIC Rinaldi
Annie, the daughter of anti-slavery crusader John Brown, serves as lookout while her father and his supporters plan their secret attack on the Harper's Ferry arsenal in 1859.

Rinaldi, Ann.  Sarah's Eyes.  Y FIC Rinaldi
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes.

Rinaldi, Ann. Wolf by The Ears.  Y FIC Rinaldi
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be Thomas Jefferson's daughter, faces the choice of passing as white or staying a slave in the sheltered but restricted life at Monticello.

Ritter, John H.  Choosing Up Sides.  Y FIC Ritter
In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.

Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Shining Company.  Y FIC Sutcliff
Proper and his companions ride out to meet and hold off enemy Saxons in seventh-century Britain.

Taylor, Mildred D. The Road to Memphis.  Y FIC Taylor
On the eve of World War II, Logan is finishing high school and dreaming of college when a violent radical incident forces her to help a good friend escape to the north.

Westall, Robert. Kingdom by The Sea.  Y FIC Westall
It's 1942, and Harry has just become a war orphan. Will he and the stray dog he takes up with be able to survive on their own.

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