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Historical fiction
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Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)Call Number: [HIS] F YEL
ISBN: 9780805092165
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaCall Number: [REA] F WIL
ISBN: 9780060760885
Publication Date: 2010-01-26
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanCall Number: [HIS] F RYA
ISBN: 9780439120425
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
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.
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An Elephant in the Garden by Michael MorpurgoCall Number: [HIS] F MOR
ISBN: 9780007339587
Publication Date: 2010
Germany 1945. Elizabeth, Karli and their mother are in the German city of Dresden when the Allied bombs begin to fall. Their home destroyed, the whole family must flee the ruined city, all the while avoiding the Russian troops who are drawing closer. It would be hard enough to do, even if they didn't have an elephant to look after.
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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael MorpurgoCall Number: [HIS] F MOR
ISBN: 9780007257461
Publication Date: 2006
When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty, Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets and by his talent for boat-design and sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie - a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?
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Freedom's Wings by Sharon Dennis WyethCall Number: [HIS] F WYE
ISBN: 9780439141000
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Historical fiction
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorCall Number: [HIS] F TAY
ISBN: 0140384510
Publication Date: 2001-11-27
An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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The Marvels by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)Call Number: [HIS] F SEL
ISBN: 9780545448680
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
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The Wolf Wilder by Katherine RundellCall Number: [HIS] F RUN
ISBN: 9781481419420
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul CurtisCall Number: [HIS] F CUR
ISBN: 9780385323062
Publication Date: 1999-09-07
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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Africa Is My Home by Monica Edinger; Robert Byrd (Illustrator)Call Number: [HIS] F EDI
ISBN: 9780763650384
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
Presents a tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa.
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Emily's Fortune by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Ross Collins (Illustrator)Call Number: [ADV] F NAY
ISBN: 0385736169
Publication Date: 2010-06-08
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance
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