Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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1997., Scholastic Call No: Historical fiction FIC GREGORY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. In a diary format, this novel chronicles the hardships that pioneers endured during a trip west on the Oregon Trail.
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2022., Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: MYSTERY FIC BLA Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
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By Efaw, Amy2010, c2000., Adolescent, Speak Call No: Realistic FIC Efaw Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of new cadet training known as the Beast.
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c2002., Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
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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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[2016], Adolescent, Fulcrum Publishing Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the Southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
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c2006., Pelican Pub. Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. Includes historical note.
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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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2016., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: FIC HOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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1992., Greenwillow Books Call No: Mystery FIC FLEISCHMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
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2000., Scholastic Call No: Historical fiction FIC LASKY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
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By Wolf, Allan2004., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC WOLF Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
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2005, c1999., Adolescent, Universal Call No: DVD FIC HICKAM Edition: Widescreen format; Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia, forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
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2016., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home, where none of his classmates look like him and he can't understand anything the teacher says - even when she speaks s-l-o-w-l-y and loudly to him.
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By Ives, Davidc2005., HarperCollins Call No: ADVENTURE F IVE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.
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1998., Pre-adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Young adult FIC HARDMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.
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2000., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F ALE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of nine short stories about the lives and loves of modern-day American Indians.
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2001., Scholastic Call No: Historical fiction FIC HERMES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
