Patron, Susan
Summary: In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a maskfrom muslin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PINLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASBlundell, Judy.
Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DA BLUWhite, Ellen Emerson.
Summary: In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WHIFraustino, Lisa Rowe.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011