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Series
I survived volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
22) City of orphans
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
24) Private Peaceful
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
26) Firebrand
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In 1848 Vienna, fifteen-year-old August Bondi is forced to emigrate to America, leaving behind his comrades in the revolution. In his new country he is confronted by the evil of slavery, and sets out for Bleeding Kansas to join forces with the notorious John Brown.
28) Marco? Polo!
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 16
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in a desert in China, and in order to retrieve their magical book from the court of Kublai Khan, they must pose as astrologers and join the caravan of Marco Polo and his father.
29) Hannah, divided
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.
30) Jericho walls
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with an African-American boy forces her to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.
32) The extra
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A story of the Nazi genocide of the Romani people unfolds through the eyes of a Romani girl forced into service as an extra in a Leni Riefenstahl film.
34) Caddie Woodlawn
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Series
Appears on list
Description
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
38) Meet Caroline
Author
Series
American girls collection. Caroline, 1812 volume 1
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 1
American girl. Caroline volume 001
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 1
American girl. Caroline volume 001
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
39) Soup & me
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Description
The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.