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Across Five Aprils

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Across Five Aprils
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The five Aprils are the five years of the American Civil War. Fifteen-year-old Jethro Creighton lives those five Aprils, and it's through his experiences that we follow the paths...
 
 
Arabus Family Saga:  Jump Ship to Freedom

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Arabus Family Saga: Jump Ship to Freedom
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Fourteen-year-old Daniel and his mother are slaves owned by an evil man named Captain Ives. Daniel learns that his father had earned enough revolutionary notes to buy their freedom...
 
 
Blood on the River  James Town, 1607

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Blood on the River James Town, 1607
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What would life have been like for an eleven-year-old boy who finds himself sent off to the colonies as a page to Captain John Smith. Young Samuel Collier has...
 
 
Crispin   At the Edge of the World

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Crispin At the Edge of the World
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Bear and Crispin have solved the mystery of Crispin's identity and have escaped the walls of Great Wexly. They set forth to create a new life for themselves, but,...
 
 
Crooked River

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Crooked River
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It's 1812 out in the pioneer territory of Ohio, and you can almost smell the Native American who is chained upstairs in the loft, accused of murder. The two...
 
 
Crosswire

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Crosswire
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Drought is the cattleman’s enemy, so renegade drovers are cutting the fences to get to ranchers’ ponds and watering holes. Jesse works with his pa and older brother to...
 
 
Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776

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Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776
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It is March, 1775, in Boston. Twelve year-old Daniel Prescott's family owns a tavern that is being used to house British officers. Despite rising tensions between the colonists and...
 
 
Esty's Gold

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Esty's Gold
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Surely the potato blight won’t hurt Esty’s family, her papa being agent for the landowner, right? But the famine in 1840s Ireland cuts deep, and 12 year old Esty...
 
 
Fighting Ground

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Fighting Ground
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Jonathan is a young teen living in New Jersey at the time of the American Revolution. He thinks war is an exciting adventure, and he wants to be part...
 
 
Forge

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Forge
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Taking his future into his own hands, Curzon has escaped from the thieving wagon driver who employed him and has made off with silver spoons, shoe buckles and Isabel's...
 
 
Keeping Room

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Keeping Room
Fiction/Non-Fiction
How does a thirteen-year-old boy handle war when it come to his own town and even to his own home? That's the question that lies before our protagonist, Joseph,...
 
 
Moon of Two Dark Horses

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Moon of Two Dark Horses
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Daniel and Coshmoo are the closest of friends. One is the son of white settlers, and the other is a Delaware Indian. Their worlds are threatened as they are...
 
 
Nory Ryan’s Song

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Nory Ryan’s Song
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It’s 1845 in Ireland, and Nory Ryan’s family is struggling. Dad has gone to earn the money to pay the rent on their home. The potato crop...
 
 
River Between Us

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River Between Us
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What are the roots of your family? This is a look back to the Civil War and the lives of the family members at that time. A steamboat pulls...
 
 
Shades of Gray

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Shades of Gray
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Set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, young Will has lost his entire family to the Civil War and the dreaded Yankees. Now he's being taken to live with...
 
 
Something Upstairs

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Something Upstairs
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Twelve-year-old Kenny is about to experience the horror of slavery first-hand. He and his family move to a new home in Rhode Island, and there Kenny finds himself traveling...
 
 
Stealing Freedom

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Stealing Freedom
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Get ready for a powerful and moving tale of a young slave girl who finds the courage inside herself to escape from the farm where her family once lived...
 
 
Storm Warriors

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Storm Warriors
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Should you believe in the impossible? On Pea Island, North Carolina, when ships wandered into danger along the coastline there was no Coast Guard to save them....
 
 
The Devil's Paintbox

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The Devil's Paintbox
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The shoe leather soup is gone, so Maddie and Aiden will starve to death soon, just as their family did on the Kansas prairie in 1865. But over the...
 
 
The Rifle

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The Rifle
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This beautiful rifle was made by a craftsman and used back in the Revolutionary War. The story follows the rifle through history and owner-by-owner until we arrive at the...
 
 
 
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