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Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Summary: Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WIL

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Poe, Mayumi Shimose

Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Dickerson, Melanie.

Summary: Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So when Gisela learns the duke's son, Valten -- the boy she has daydreamed about for years -- is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it's only...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIC

Lee, Mackenzi

Summary: Monty's epic grand tour may be over, but now that he and Percy are finally a couple, he realizes there is something more nerve-wracking than being chased across Europe: getting together with the person you love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEE

Parker, Robert B.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAR

Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERD

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Tarshis 2013

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: On the day that shocks the world, one boy just wants to find his family. A powerful addition to the gripping I survived series.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016

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Klimo, Kate

Summary: "Susan--the corgi presented to Princess Elizabeth on her eighteenth birthday--reveals secrets of life in Buckingham Palace"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KLI

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