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Alikhan, Salima

Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019

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

Ball, Georgia

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BAL

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

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

Montañés, Mónica

Summary: "During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022

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

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC TAR

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2019

Gratz, Alan

Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GRA

Watkins, Steve

Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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

Gratz, Alan

Summary: It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2019

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022

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

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2021

Wolf, Allan

Summary: "In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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

O'Neil, Carolyn Tara

Summary: Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'NE

Deen, Natasha

Summary: The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

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

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

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

Saeed, Jamal

Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020

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

Ellison, Joy Michael

Summary: In 1969, when thirteen-year-old transgender runaway Flor and her new trans friend Tami try to make their way into the queer and trans community of New York City, they find themselves at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023

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

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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

Falkner, Brian

Summary: In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

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

Palacio, R. J.

Summary: "Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: "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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

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