| 1600s | ||
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Waters, K., J. |
On the Mayflower | JFIC |
| A story of the Mayflower’s passage
to America through the eyes of the apprentice to the master of the ship and an eight-year-old passenger. |
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| 1700s | ||
| Bruchac, J. | The Arrow Over the Door | JFIC |
| In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting. | ||
| Moss, M. | Emma's Journal | JFIC |
| Emma’s journal describes her stay from 1774-1776 in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. | ||
| Myers, Anna | The Keeping Room | JFIC |
| Left in charge of the family by his father when he joins the Revolutionary War, 13-year-old Joey undergoes dramatic changes. | ||
| Pryor, B. | Thomas | JFIC |
| In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia. | ||
| Speare, E. | The Sign of the Beaver | JFIC |
| Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in 18th century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills. | ||
| Tripp, V. | American Girls Series: Felicity Series | JFIC |
| Experience adventure during colonial times with Felicity. | ||
| Walker, S. | The 18 Penny Goose | JER |
| Eight-year-old Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding British soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. | ||
| 1800s | ||
| Arrington, F. | Bluestem | JFIC |
| 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. | ||
| Brink, C. | Caddie Woodlawn | JFIC |
| An adventurous girl and her brothers, who live on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s, have exciting adventures with Indians. A Newbery Medal winner. | ||
| Coerr, E. | Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express | JER Blue |
| Sixteen year-old Bill finds adventure when he becomes rider for the Pony Express (although his letters home never hint at the danger he encounters). | ||
| Dadey, D. | Cherokee Sister | JFIC |
| Because she is mistaken for an Indian, twelve-year-old Allie, a white girl, is forced to travel the Trail of Tears along with her best friend, a young Cherokee. | ||
| DeAngeli, M. | Copper-toed Boots | JFIC |
| This book tells the story of a young man's summer adventures in Michigan during the 1800s. | ||
| Fritz, J. | Brady | JFIC |
| A Pennsylvania farm in the mid-1830s is the setting for this tale about a young boy who tries to come to grips with the question of slavery. | ||
| Fritz, J. | The Cabin Faced West | JFIC |
| Ten-year-old Ann overcomes her loneliness and learns to appreciate her role in settling of the wilderness of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Gross, V. | The Day it Rained Forever | JFIC |
| The devastation of the 1889 Pennsylvania flood, seen through the eyes of a young girl and her family. | ||
| Hansen, J. | Which Way Freedom? | JFIC |
| A former slave joins the Union Army and fights in the Civil War. | ||
| Hoobler, D. | Julie Meyer: the Story of a Wagon Train Girl | JFIC |
| A young girl and her family travel west to Oregon in 1847, facing many obstacles along the way. | ||
| Karr, K. | Spy in the Sky | JFIC |
| When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, 10-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him and the two set out to find a way to use Lowe's balloon to help the North. | ||
| Karwoski, G. | Seaman: the Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis & Clark | JFIC |
| Seaman, a Newfoundland, proves his value as a hunter, navigator and protector while serving with the Corps of Discovery when it explores the West under the leadership of Lewis and Clark. | ||
| MacLachlan, P. | Sarah, Plain and Tall | JFIC |
| When Sarah arrives as a mail-order bride and Caleb and Anna hope she'll stay as their new mother. Winner of the Newbery Medal. | ||
| Monjo, F.N. | The Drinking Gourd | JER |
| Sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad. | ||
| Moss, M. | Rachel's Journal | JFIC |
| In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family’s adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850. | ||
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Adaline Falling Star | JFIC |
| 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. | ||
| Reeder, C. | Shades of Gray | JFIC |
| After the Civil War, 12-year-old Will, who has lost his immediate family, goes to live with his aunt and an uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war. | ||
| Shaw, J. | American Girls series: Meet Kirsten | JFIC |
| These books tell the story of Kirsten, a Swedish immigrant growing up on the frontier in the 1850s. Share in the first of Kirsten’s adventures. | ||
| Tripp, V. | American Girls series: Meet Josefina | JFIC |
| This series tells the story of a young Hispanic girl growing up in the west in the 1820s. Enjoy meeting this amazing girl. | ||
| Wallace, B. | Red Dog | JFIC |
| While living in the dangerous Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam is left in charge of the family. | ||
| Whelan, G. | Hannah | JFIC |
| Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late 19th century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind. | ||
| Whelan, G. | Indian School | JFIC |
| In 1839, newly orphaned 11-year-old Mary goes to live with her missionary aunt and uncle, who run a school for Indian children in northern Michigan. | ||
| Whelan, G. | Night of the Full Moon | JFIC |
| When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s. | ||
| Whelan, G. | Once on this Island | JFIC |
| This series of books tells about the life of a pioneer family's adventures in a growing country. | ||
| Wisler, G. | Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | JFIC |
| This is the story of Willie Johnston, an 11-year-old Civil War drummer. | ||
| Yep, L. | Spring Pearl: the Last Flower | JFIC |
| Called boyish by her new family for being
able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd
ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton,
China. |
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| 1900s | ||
| Adler, Susan | American Girls series: Samantha | JFIC |
| This is a series of books about a young girl growing up in the early 1900s. | ||
| Armstrong, J. | Lili the Brave | JFIC |
| A spirited young girl does not want to leave her home in Norway to go to live in Minnesota, but aboard ship on the way to America she proves why she is called "Lili the Brave." | ||
| Duey, K. | Titanic, April 14, 1912 | JFIC |
| During the final hours aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated voyage, Gavin and Karolina attempt to help others and learn something about themselves. | ||
| Franscino, E. | Eddie Spaghetti on the Home Front | JFIC |
| Eddie does as much as a boy can for the war efforts during World War II. | ||
| Hahn, M. | Stepping on the Cracks | JFIC |
| In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in WWII, 11-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully when she finds him hiding a deserter. | ||
| Kinseyk-Warnock, N. | A Doctor Like Papa | JFIC |
| When the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont,
eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, find out what doctoring is like. |
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| Lord, B. | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | JFIC |
| In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she becomes Americanized by her love for baseball. | ||
| Lowry, L. | Number the Stars | JFIC |
| In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Winner of the Newbery Medal. | ||
| Nelson, V. | Beyond Mayfield | JFIC |
| In 1961 the children of Mayfield are concerned with air-raid drills and fallout shelters, but the civil rights movement becomes real when a neighbor joins the Freedom Riders. | ||
| Propp, V. | When the Soldiers Were Gone | JFIC |
| 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. | ||
| Skolsky, M. | Love from your Friend, Hannah: a Novel | JFIC |
| From her home in the back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, Hannah writes letters to her best friend, a pen pal, and even to President and Mrs. Roosevelt. | ||
| Strickland, B. | When Mack Came Back | JFIC |
| When his older brother leaves the family farm in order to join the army in 1943, 10-year-old Maury has to deal with his angry father and to care for an injured puppy. | ||
| Taylor, M. | The Gold Cadillac | JFIC |
| Two African-American girls living in the North take their family's new Cadillac on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. | ||
| Taylor, M. | Mississippi Bridge | JFIC |
| During a heavy rainstorm in rural Mississippi, a 10-year-old white boy watches while white passengers replace black passengers on a bus and then cross a raging river. | ||
| Tripp, V. | American Girls series: Molly | JFIC |
| These books tell the story of Molly McIntire's life during World War II. | ||
| Turner, A. | Dust for Dinner | JER |
| Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California. | ||
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