Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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-- DreamingBy Winters, Cat2014., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.
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2022., General, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Historical Fic Alexander Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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2022., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F ALE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2012., Juvenile, Viking Call No: E CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the huge steamship on which they are traveling runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction TARSHIS Edition: First edition. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition, February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F CUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC ERD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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[2024]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--Provided by publisher.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F LEZ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
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By Bowman, Erin[2015], Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--Provided by publisher.