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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction SMITH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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-- Black storm comingc2005., Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Historical fiction FIC WILSON Wil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Sample text Publisher description Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
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By Willard, Tom1997, c1996., T. Doherty Associates Call No: Historical FIC Willard Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Black sabre chronicles Volume: bk. 1
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-- Deadly desperados2012., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC LAW Edition: 1st American ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Western mysteries Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old P.K. Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
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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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2022., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: ADVENTURE FIC ALE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: HISTORICAL FIC ALE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: On the banks of Upper Kwanta, eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has long heard the call of the water, and he truly feels most at home swimming in the river. But Kofi's life is turned upside down when his brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest at a festival between the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta, and his brother accidentally kills his opponent, the nephew of the King of Lower Kwanta. The king soon gets his revenge, and Kofi finds himself embarking on a perilous journey across land and sea when slave traders arrive.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Lee Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan's day job is doing maid work for the spoiled daughter of one of Atlanta's wealthiest men; by night, Jo writes as Miss Sweetie for a news paper advice column. When Jo's "Dear Miss Sweetie" articles become popular, she begins to use her pen-power to address society's ills, particularly challenging ideas about gender and race, drawing a backlash and attempts to uncover her real identity. Then, Atlanta's most notorious criminal gets on Jo's trail, and she will have to decide on standing up for her beliefs or remaining in the shadows of anonymity.
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-- James Patterson presents2019., Adolescent, Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company Call No: Historical Fic Maniscalco Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell board the RMS "Etruria" on their way to America. The seven day Moonlight Carnival provides a dramatic backdrop for a serial killer to work. And as the bodies of young women turn up dead, Audrey Rose must find a way to stop him before the ship docks.
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1984., W.W. Norton and Co. Call No: Adventure FIC O'Brian Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2016]., Shadow Mountain Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Based on the true love story of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Boston socialite Fanny Appleton, this novel chronicles their seven-year courtship through Europe and Boston"--Provided by publisher.
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By Hart, Alisonc2007., Peachtree Call No: FIC HART Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda LAB Call No: HISTORICAL F YEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.
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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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2012., Primary, Viking Call No: [Fic] 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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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1814, as the War of 1812 rages, twelve-year-old Lemuel Brooks tries to save the sleepy fishing village of Sandy Bay, Massachussetts, where he, himself, is an outsider, from bumbling British invaders. Includes historical notes.
