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c2007., Joanna Cotler Books Call No: FIC PORTER Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: One day a stranger comes to claim Billy Creekmore from the Guardian Angels Home for Boys; and he embarks on a cross-country journey in search of his past, his future, and his own true self.
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2007, c2006., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC CARBONE Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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2007., Juvenile, PUFFIN Call No: HISTORICAL F CAR Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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2006., Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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[2010]., Pre-adolescent, Audio Bookshelf Call No: RB FIC CARBONE Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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2014., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel", a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-Americans slaves like himself to rebel.
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2004, c2000., Juvenile, Waterbird Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Jamestown's American portraitsSummary Note: Richard Ayre travels to America to become an indentured servant in the Jamestown Colony, where he befriends an Native American boy who teaches him an important lesson about friendship.
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2012., Juvenile, Bloomsbury Call No: 741.5 Graphic Novel MACK Edition: [1st U.S. ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Cartoon chronicles of AmericaSummary Note: In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised, Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.
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2012., Bloomsbury Call No: GN 741.5 MAC Edition: [1st U.S. ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Cartoon chronicles of AmericaSummary Note: In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised, Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.
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By Ray, Deliac2003., Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
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c2011., Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the lives of the Jeffersons, told from the points of view of three of Jefferson's slaves -- Beverly and Madison, the children of Sally Hemings, and a third boy close to the Hemings.
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Ã2011., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Call No: FIC BRADLEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, including two who were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
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2008., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC ANDERSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
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-- Octavian Nothing2008., Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL F AND Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume: 2Summary Note: After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
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c2009, Pre-adolescent, American Girl Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shortly after her mother leaves on a trip, a package that contains family heirlooms arrives, and when strange things start to happen around the house, Felicity is convinced that the heirlooms are haunted.
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[2014], Adolescent, Harlequin Teen Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1959 Virginia, Linda Hairston, who has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal," must work on a school project with Sarah Dunbar, one of the first African-American students at the all-white Jefferson High School.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Harlequin Teen Call No: Historical FIC Talley Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sarah Dunbar, an honors student and one of the first black students admitted to a previously all-white high school, and Linda Hairston, a white classmate opposed to integration, are forced to reexamine their beliefs and perceptions when they experience a growing attracting to one another while working on a class project together.
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2008., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
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-- Loving versus Virginia[2017]., Adolescent, Chronicle Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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-- Loving versus Virginia[2017]., Adolescent, Chronicle Books Call No: Historical Fiction FIC POW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.