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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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Summary: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2012
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Summary: In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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Summary: "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2015
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Summary: To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1984
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Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010
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Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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Summary: In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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Summary: Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2006
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Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books For Children 2002
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Summary: Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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Summary: As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1990
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Summary: Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2006
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Summary: Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019
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Summary: While her father mines for gold in 1848 San Francisco, Tory embarks on a search for her kidnapped brother among Rotten Row's hundreds of abandoned ships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: "A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015