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Coming On Home Soon

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Coming On Home Soon
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This beautiful picture book is the story of a grandmother, a mother and a young daughter who live in the rural south during World War II. As the...
 
 
Don't Forget Winona

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Don't Forget Winona
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In the 1930's Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl and struggling families had to pick up all their worldly possessions and strike out to begin their lives again. Told...
 
 
Feathertop

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Feathertop
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Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this is the story of Mother Rigby, one of the most powerful witches in New England. She wakes...
 
 
Freedom Song: The Story of Henry

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Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
Slave Henry married slave Nancy and they had several children. One day while Henry was at work his master sold Nancy and the children. Henry was powerless to save...
 
 
Henry's Freedom Box

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Henry's Freedom Box
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Henry "Box" Brown was a slave who watched his wife and children sold away, never to be seen again. Henry devised a plan to escape slavery....
 
 
How Many Days to America?  A Thanksgiving Story

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How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story
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When soldiers to come to their house, everyone is afraid and father says they have to leave everything behind and go to America where they can be free. ...
 
 
I Have Heard Of A Land

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I Have Heard Of A Land
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What a glorious journey through a woman's dream of moving her family west to Oklahoma. This is based on the author's family history of moving...
 
 
Katie's Trunk

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Katie's Trunk
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Set in the Revolutionary War this is the story of a young Tory girl who risks her life to save her family's possessions. She hides in a trunk and...
 
 
Kisses on the Wind

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Kisses on the Wind
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Saying goodbye to your grandmother is very hard! A family is moving to Oregon during the westward expansion and a young girl is concerned about leaving her grandmother....
 
 
Lincoln and Douglas:  An American Friendship

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Lincoln and Douglas: An American Friendship
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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass grew up in different worlds yet shared similar values and hopes for the United States. They both worked for the abolition of slavery and...
 
 
Pappy's Handkerchief

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Pappy's Handkerchief
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
Author Devin Scillian presents a fictionalized account of one black family’s attempt to escape the racism of the Post-Civil War east and grab a piece of the American...
 
 
Pink and Say

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Pink and Say
Fiction/Non-Fiction
This is such a tremendously powerful story, and it's one of those picture books that is written for older children - say ages 8 and up. It's set in...
 
 
Silver Packages

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Silver Packages
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In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train, which will bring presents to the children...
 
 
Spuds

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Spuds
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Ma's been working so hard, she doesn't have much left over. So her three kids decide to do some work on their own. In the dark of night, they...
 
 

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Thanksgiving With Me
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This charming book is more than just another Thanksgiving title. As a young girl excitedly awaits the arrival of her six seafaring uncles for the holiday, she asks...
 
 
The Humblebee Hunter

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The Humblebee Hunter
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Charles Darwin was an amazing naturalist, adventurer and explorer but what was he like as a father? Turns out he and his wife had ten children seven of...
 
 
The Ride:  The Legend of Betsy Dowdy

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The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy
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Betsy Dowdy was a brave girl who made a midnight ride to alert American army of impending British attack during the American Revolution. This is only a legend not...
 
 
The Secret Tunnel

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The Secret Tunnel
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Yonatan is eleven years old; old enough, in his opinion, for his parents to stop calling him Yoni and to be treated with more respect. But there are bigger...
 
 
When Jessie Came Across The Sea

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When Jessie Came Across The Sea
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Jessie lives with her grandmother in an East European village. Her life is a full and happy one. She sits in at the boys’...
 
 
 
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