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A Million Shades of Gray
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You are about to enter the world of South Vietnam just as the American War is ending. Y'Tin's father has helped the Americans on several missions and now...
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A Time of Miracles
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Koumail, accompanied by a woman named Gloria, is fleeing across the Caucasus heading to France. She has told Koumail she rescued him from a train wreck. She came...
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Alligator Bayou
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Tallulah, Louisiana in 1899 was a time of racial strife. Black and white where segregated and the Sicilians belonged to neither group. Brought to Louisiana to work in the...
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Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
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Reluctant Reader
It's 1849 and Lucas Whitaker is an orphan. His whole family has died of consumption as have many, many people in his community. He...
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April Morning
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' "Lay down your arms, you lousy bastards! Disperse, do you hear me! ...Get off the King's Green!" 'It's Lexington, Massachusetts, April, 1775. Anxious, almost sixteen-year-old...
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Ashes
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"Where they burn books, they will end by burning human beings." 19th century German writer, Heinrich HeineThe above quote at the beginning of the book gives the reader an...
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Black Radishes
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It's 1940 in Paris and Gustave, age 11, is competing to win the prize in the scavenger hunt against the other teams in his Scout troop. It's boyish vying...
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Breaking Stalin's Nose
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Tomorrow! Finally, Sasha will become a Young Pioneer and help Comrade Stalin bring the prosperity of communism to the USSR. His father, an officer in the Soviet State Police,...
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Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
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When fifteen year old Bill Cody sees the sign that the Pony Express is hiring, he tries to talk his way into the job. He can ride. ...
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Day of Tears
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In 1859 in Savannah, Georgia, the largest slave auction in American history took place. This is the story of fictionalized characters who could have been at the auction...
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Death on the River
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Before reading this YA book, the only historical novel I could recall that was about the Confederacy's notorious prisoner of war camp, Andersonville, was MacKinlay Kantor's 1955 Pulitzer Prize...
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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...
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Dust for Dinner
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When the dust storms roar through Jake and Maggy's farm again and again, the crops stop growing and the family has to sell all their possessions and head west...
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Eyes of the Emperor
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Eddie Okubo enlists in the US Army at the age of 17, just days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His Japanese-American heritage will lead him into a...
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Eyewitness Reader, Level 4: Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles
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Reluctant Reader
The wonderful Eyewitness readers series continues. These are great books for independent readers who prefer to learn information from their books and aren't really interested in a storyline. ...
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Fallen Angels
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Reluctant Reader
This is a powerful story of black soldiers serving in Vietnam. What circumstances led them to choose to fight in this war? What have they left behind, and what...
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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...
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Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown
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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...
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From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story
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Opening with a watercolor map of the slave states and the free states, this story begins with Johnny on the plantation where he works as a slave carrying water...
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George, The Drummer Boy
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George is a drummer boy for the king's soldiers in Boston just as the American Revolution is beginning. He wants to be friends with the people in Boston, but...
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