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2004., Juvenile, Dell Laurel-Leaf Call No: Historical fiction FIC ALVAREZ Edition: 1st Laurel-Leaf ed. Availability:42 of 42 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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[1996], c1994., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: Historical fiction FIC LASKY Availability:33 of 33 At Location(s) Series Title: Point signatureSummary Note: When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
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2007, c2006., General, Puffin Books Call No: Historical Fiction Carbone Availability:29 of 35 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., Adolescent, Knopf Call No: Historical fiction FIC ZUSAK Edition: 1st Knopf trade pbk Availability:37 of 37 At Location(s) Summary Note: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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1972., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 582 Pet Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On t.p.: Field marks of all trees, shrubs, and woody vines that grow wild in the northeastern and north-central United States and in south-eastern and south-central Canada. C.8 Rebind 1997-98. C.12 Rebind 1997-98. C.15 Rebind 1997-98.
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1998., Pre-adolescent, Alladin Paperback Call No: Historical fiction FIC ROBINET Edition: 1st ed. Availability:10 of 10 At Location(s) Summary Note: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises.
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[2001], Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: FIC PHILBRICK Availability:28 of 28 At Location(s) Summary Note: Learning disabled Max and his friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
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2008, c 2006., Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC ELLIOTT Availability:85 of 85 At Location(s) Summary Note: The American Revolution is about to ignite and life is tough for thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia. He meets a kind schoolmaster and an arrangement is made lending Nathaniel's labor to a Williamsburg carriage maker. Patrick Henry's words "give me liberty, or give me death" become the sounding call for action. Should Nathaniel and Basil join the fight?.
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1984., Vintage Contemporaries Call No: Literature FIC CISNEROS Availability:20 of 21 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of short stories by Sandra Cisneros.
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1995., Tom Doherty Associates Call No: Horror FIC MATHESON Availability:19 of 19 At Location(s) Summary Note: Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows. Includes ten additional short horror stories.
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c2011., Broadway Paperbacks Call No: 616 SKL Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:51 of 60 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.
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-- Inside out and back againBy Lai, Thanhha2013., Harper Call No: Historical fiction FIC LAI Edition: 1st paperback ed. Availability:43 of 43 At Location(s) Summary Note: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Sandpiper Call No: FIC O'DELL Availability:9 of 10 At Location(s) Summary Note: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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1970., Dell Call No: Historical fiction FIC FORBES Availability:19 of 19 At Location(s) Summary Note: Apprenticed to a silversmith, Johnny's hand is burned so badly as to be useless. He then becomes a dispatch rider for the committee of Public Safety.
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By Tolan, Sandyc2006., Bloomsbury USA Call No: 920 TOLAN Edition: Pbk. ed. Availability:24 of 24 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on a 43-minute radio documentary that Tolan produced for "Fresh Air," this volume pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center through the present day. Their stories form a personal microcosm of the last 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian history.
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2004, c1953., Adolescent, Vintage Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC RICHTER Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:50 of 50 At Location(s) Summary Note: After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books : Sandpiper Call No: Historical fiction FIC PARK Availability:81 of 81 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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1992, c1991., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC PATERSON Availability:37 of 37 At Location(s) Summary Note: Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
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2009, c1993., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Call No: 822.3 SHA Edition: Simon & Schuster pa Availability:30 of 30 At Location(s) Series Title: New Folger Library Shakespeare.Summary Note: When fairies, gods and actors meet one night in a supernatural woodland, all heaven breaks loose in Shakespeare's classic comedy drama.
