Hist. Fic. 1800's

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One big open sky - Cline-Ransome, Lesa,

Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--

Last of the name - Parry, Rosanne,

Summary: In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they...

Words on fire - Nielsen, Jennifer A,

Summary: In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the...

The journey of little Charlie - Curtis, Christopher Paul,

Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit...

Unbound : a novel in verse - Burg, Ann E.,

Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master...

My near-death adventures (99% true!) - DeCamp, Alison.

Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's...

I almost died. Again - DeCamp, Alison,

Summary: In 1895 Michigan, Stan, eleven, will do almost anything to help his mother financially, even babysitting, but his long-lost father shows up and proves to be a big disappointment.

The Left-Handed Fate - Milford, Kate,

Summary: "A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812...or stop it altogether"--

The wooden river. - Stone, Nancy Y. (Nancy Young), 1925-

Summary: In the 1870's a young girl and her family spend the winter in a Saginaw Valley lumber camp.

Sugar - Rhodes, Jewell Parker.

Summary: In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and...

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