Keene Public Library Booklists

• Kehret, Peg. The secret journey
  In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.

• Lester, Julius. Pharaoh's daughter
  A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.
• McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The golden goblet
  Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil uncle, Gebu, so he can become a master goldsmith like their father in this exciting tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue.

• Alcock, Vivien. Singer to the sea god
  When he and his companions flee their island home after the king's court is turned to stone, Phaidon begins to believe in the gods and monsters that his uncle has always scorned.
• Faulkner, Nancy. The traitor queen
  Willful Thalamika, irresistibly drawn to the Mycenean Prince, disdains the earnest advice of her friends, as Andrios tries desperately to uncover the truth behind flying rumors of disaster.
• Galloway, Priscilla. Aleta and the queen: a tale of ancient Greece
  Queen Penelope is besieged by suitors eager to claim the kingship of Ithaca; Odysseus, her husband, has been away for 19 years. Her clever attempt to stall them by spending years weaving and unraveling the same piece of cloth is exposed by the daughter of Kleea. Her companion. Kleea's granddaughter, Aleta, is ashamed of her drunken, traitorous mother. This original retelling of the Odyssey gives readers a unique look at life on the ancient Greek "home front" while remaining faithful to the details of the classic story.
• Polland, Madeleine A. Daughter of the sea
  A Greek boy and an English girl are transported back in time to ancient Crete during its invasion by Greece.
• Sreenivasan, Jyotsna. The moon over Crete
  Eleven-year-old Lily travels back in time 3,500 years to ancient Crete, where women and men were equal.

• Ray, Mary. The ides of April
  When a Roman senator is murdered in 62 A.D., his slaves are imprisoned, and death for them all is imminent unless the real assassin can be determined.

• Roth, Arthur J. The iceberg hermit
  Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

• Disher, Garry. The bamboo flute
  In a rural Australian community in 1932, twelve-year-old Paul has his predictable life brightened when a drifter helps him make a flute and teaches him how to play it.
• Pople, Maureen. The other side of the family
  Sent from England for safety during World War II to stay with an Australian grandmother known to hate her family, fifteen-year-old Katherine discovers a totally unexpected character and startling revelations about her family.

• Durbin, William. The broken blade
  When an injury prevents his father from going into northern Canada with fur traders, thirteen-year-old Pierre decides to take his father's place as a voyageur.
• Yates, Elizabeth. With pipe, paddle, and song: A story of the French-Canadian voyageurs, circa 1750
  A sixteen-year-old lad, who can paddle, sing, and swim, signs a three-year contract as a voyageur and joins an expedition to north-west Canada in 1750 to search for furs and his future.

• Cooper, Gordon. A second springtime
  In the 1860's eleven-year-old Hester, who has lived in an English orphanage all her life, is adopted by a settler family in Nova Scotia.
• Durbin, William. Wintering
  In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.
• Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass
  Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

• Garrigue, Sheila. The eternal spring of Mr. Ito
  The fate of a 200-year-old bonsai tree is decided by a young girl and an old Japanese Canadian gardener who resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• Paterson, Katherine. Rebels of the heavenly kingdom
  Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society partly based on Christian principles and dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu government.
• Yep, Laurence. Spring Pearl: the last flower
  Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.

• De Jong, Meindert. The house of sixty fathers
  Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

• Fletcher, Susan. Shadow spinner
  When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.

• Reid Banks, Lynne. One more river
  Fourteen-year-old Lesley is upset when her parents abandon their comfortable life in Canada for a kibbutz in Israel prior to the 1967 war.

• Paterson, Katherine. Of nightingales that weep
  The vain young daughter of a samurai finds her comfortable life ripped apart when opposing warrior clans begin a struggle for imperial control of Japan.

• Namioka, Lensey. Valley of the broken cherry trees
  In Japan during the last quarter of the 16th century two unemployed samurai attempt to discover who is mutilating the cherry trees in the valley of Lord Ohmori.

• Namioka, Lensey. The coming of the bear
  Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.
• Namioka, Lensey. Village of the vampire cat
  When a young ronin returns to the village of his former teacher, he and his companion find it being terrorized by a mysterious killer.

• Haugaard, Erik Christian. The revenge of the forty-seven samurai
  A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death.
• Hoobler, Dorothy. The demon in the teahouse
  Sequel to: The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
  In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
• Hoobler, Dorothy. The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
  While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
• Paterson, Katherine. The master puppeteer
  A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

• Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. My brother, my sister, and I
  Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder.

• Park, Linda Sue. The kite fighters
  In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.
• Park, Linda Sue. A single shard
  Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

• Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of impossible goodbyes
  A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.
• Neuberger, Anne E. The girl-son
  Based on the life of Induk Pahk, a Korean educator, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in the early twentieth century in that country.
• Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko
  With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

• Eboch, Chris. The Well of Sacrifice
  When a Mayan girl in ninth-century Guatemala suspects that the High Priest sacrifices anyone who stands in the way of his power, she proves herself a hero.
• O'Dell, Scott. The captive
  Sequel: The feathered serpent
  As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
• O'Dell, Scott. The feathered serpent
  Sequel to: The captive
  A young Spanish seminarian who the Mayas believe is their powerful god, Kukulcan, witnesses the coming of Cortes and the capture of the magnificent Aztec city, Tenochtitlan.

• Atwell, Debby. Pearl
  Events in the history of the United States, from George Washington's presidency through the beginning of the space program, are related to the experiences of one family.

• Bruchac, Joseph. Dawn land
  Set about 10,000 years ago in the area now known as New England and the maritime provinces of Canada the People of the Dawn Land (the Abenaki) enjoy an idyllic existence, with people in 13 villages living in harmony with one another and with all creation. Their loyal dogs have an almost telepathic link to their human keepers. Then a mysterious threat darkens the horizon. Have the Cannibal Giants returned? The heroic Young Hunter is dispatched on a desperate, dangerous journey to meet the enemy, and takes with him a new technology, the bow.

• Bruchac, Joseph. Children of the longhouse
  Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.
• Litowinsky, Olga. The high voyage
  Fernando Columbus recounts his eventful voyage with his father in search of a passage to India.
• O'Connor, Genevieve A. The admiral and the deck boy: one boy's journey with Christopher Columbus
  Carlos, a thirteen-year-old deck boy, struggles to prove himself as he sails with Christopher Columbus to the New World.

• Parish, Helen Rand. Estebanico
  Historical novel of the adventures of Estebanico, an African slave and one of the four conquistadors who first crossed America in search of the Seven Cities of Gold.

• Daugherty, James Henry. The landing of the Pilgrims
  In order to escape religious persecution, a group of English Separatists set sail for America in 1620, hoping to establish a new colony.
• Dorris, Michael. Guests
  Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.
• Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia
  In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
• Harrah, Madge. My brother, my enemy
  Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year- Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
• Hildick, E. W. Hester Bidgood, investigatrix of evill deedes
  Thirteen-year-old Hester Bidgood and her fourteen-year-old friend Rob Macgregor investigate the stoning and branding of a kitten in a New England town caught in the grip of witchcraft rumors during the year 1692.
• Jackson, Dave. The Mayflower secret
  Teenage Elizabeth Tilley, one of the colonists landing at New Plymouth on the Mayflower, sees her parents die from illness and wonders if God is punishing her for the terrible secret she carries.
• Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the burning time
  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.
• Latham, Jean Lee. This dear-bought land
  In 1607 a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.
• Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte. The first year
  A story of the Pilgrims in America.
• O'Dell, Scott. The serpent never sleeps: a novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas
  In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.
• Petry, Ann Lane. Tituba of Salem Village
  Tituba gets brought to trial for witchcraft in Salem village.
• Speare, Elizabeth George. The witch of Blackbird Pond
  In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

• Albrecht, Lillie Vanderveer. The spinning wheel secret
  Joan Tower has never done the typical things a girl growing up in Colonial America should have done. She played and romped with her brothers and learned other skills than those of a housewife. But, after an Indian raid she must do all she can to keep her family together - even learn the skills she has never had.
• Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. The way of the eagles
  Enoch Robinson didn't like being apprenticed to dour wheelwright Nathaniel Crane and he liked being beaten even less. So, one day in the summer of 1775, he tore the switch out of his master's hand, broke it into four pieces, and began to fight back. Fearing a jail sentence he joins a patriot force taking part in an attempt to drive the British from Canada.
• Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793
  In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self- reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
• Avi. Encounter at Easton
  The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania town.
• Avi. The fighting ground
  Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
• Avi. Night journeys
  In the spring of 1768, twelve-year-old Peter, living with his guardian near the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, joins in the search for two runaway indentured servants.
• Beatty, John Louis. Who comes to King's Mountain?
  Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which side he will follow.
• Brady, Esther Wood. Toliver's secret
  During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.
• Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Weaver's daughter
  In 1791 after her family's journey from Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Lizzie suffers from the disease of asthma in her new home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee).
• Bruchac, Joseph. The arrow over the door
  In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting.
• Bruchac, Joseph. The winter people
  As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
• Buckey, Sarah Masters. Enemy in the Fort
  In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
• Cavanna, Betty. Ruffles and drums
  Devoted to the revolutionary cause, sixteen-year-old Sarah finds it difficult to accept the presence of a young British officer convalescing in their Concord house.
• Chickering, Marjorie. Yankee trader: Ben Tanner, 1799
  Sixteen-year-old Ben is the equal of any woodsman with gun and trap and he thinks St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a pretty good place to live but he longs to see more. He gets his chance on a journey to Portland.
• Clapp, Patricia. I'm Deborah Sampson: a soldier in the War of the Revolution
  Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.
• Collier, James Lincoln. The bloody country
  In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.
• Collier, James Lincoln. Jump ship to freedom
  In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
• Collier, James Lincoln. My brother Sam is dead
  Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
• Collier, James Lincoln. Who is Carrie?
  A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.
• Collier, James Lincoln. The winter hero
  Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.
• Cooney, Caroline B. The ransom of Mercy Carter
  In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
• Curry, Jane Louise. A stolen life
  In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter.
• Curtis, Alice Turner. The little maid Series
  The series details the adventures of girls set in the US during the 1700s.
  A little maid of Mohawk Valley
  During the Revolutionary War, ten-year-old Joanne Clarke, living in a log cabin in the Mohawk Valley, delivers an important message to General Philip Schuyler at Albany after being kidnapped and abandoned by an Indian.
• Denker, Nan Watson. The bound girl
  Historical fiction set in Massachusetts during the Colonial Era.
• Dubois, Muriel L. Abenaki captive
  In 1752, nineteen-year-old Abenaki warrior Ogistin is present when a band of his people capture an English trapper, John Stark, and as Stark is carried into captivity in Canada a bond of hate and competition develops between him and Ogistin.
• Durrant, Lynda. The beaded moccasins
  After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
• Durrant, Lynda. Betsy Zane, the rose of Fort Henry
  In 1781 twelve-year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution.
• Faulkner, Nancy. A stage for Rom
  Rom and his twin Polly move to Colonial Williamsburg and Rom joins a company of actors. Their lives are changed forever when some old puppets and a stolen horse add up to a mystery and they make an exciting discovery.
• Field, Rachel. Calico bush
  Marguerite Ledoux, called Maggie by the English family to whom she is bound-out, saves their lives by arranging a Maypole dance for attacking Indians.
• Finlayson, Ann. Rebecca's war
  Left in charge of her brother and sister in occupied Philadelphia in 1777, fourteen-year-old Rebecca's life is complicated further when two British soldiers are billeted in her house.
• Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
  After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
• Frederick, Heather Vogel. The voyage of Patience Goodspeed
  Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
• Goodman, Joan E. Hope's crossing
  When kidnapped by English Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.
• Gregory, Kristiana. Five smooth stones: Hope's diary
  In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
• Howard, Ellen. When daylight comes
  After a slave uprising on an eighteenth century settlement in the Virgin Islands, a white girl held prisoner by the rebels follows a slow passage to understanding of her captors.
• Hudson, Jan. Dawn rider
  Kit Fox's sixteenth year with her people, the Bloods, is filled with preparations for an important buffalo run, talk of her older sister's coming marriage, and skirmishes with their traditional enemy the Snakes.
• Jones, Elizabeth McDavid. Mystery on Skull Island
  In 1724, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
• Keehn, Sally M. I am Regina
  In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
• Keehn, Sally M. Moon of two dark horses
  At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast.
• Klaveness, Jan O'Donnell. The Griffin legacy
  Amy Enfield becomes involved with the spirit of her ancestor Lucy Griffin and undertakes a quest for silver stolen from the parish church by Lucy's lover during the American Revolution.
• Lenski, Lois. Ocean-born Mary
  There really was an Ocean Born Mary. History reports she was born at sea on July 28, 1720 to James and Elizabeth Wilson. Legend tells us they were passengers on a ship filled with immigrants to New England when privateers appeared. The pirate reportedly promised not to harm the passengers if the Wilsons named their new baby after his mother (or was it his wife?).
• Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda. The hollow tree
  It is 1777, and fifteen-year-old Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the turmoil of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy.
• Moore, Robin. The bread sister of Sinking Creek
  Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s.
• Moss, Marissa. Emma's journal: the story of a Colonial girl
  From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.
• O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop
  Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
• Rinaldi, Ann. A break with charity: a story about the Salem witch trials
  While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
• Rinaldi, Ann. The second bend in the river
  In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
• Shaik, Fatima. Melitte
  In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.
• Shub, Elizabeth. Cutlass in the snow
  In 1797 Sam and his grandfather explore the wild and uninhabited Fire Island, just missing a band of pirates but finding a cutlass and buried treasure.
• Speare, Elizabeth George. Calico Captive
  This story is very loosely based on the true captivity narrative of Susannah Johnson. The focus of the book is on Mrs. Johnson's younger sister, Miriam Willard, who was just 14 at the time she and her older sister's family were captured by Abenaki Indians in 1754, but Ms. Speare increased her age to 16. The book is filled with adventure and romance and how cultures and religions clashed on the 18th century frontier: New England farmers vs. Abenaki warriors, Puritanism vs. Roman Catholicism, and English vs. French loyalties.
• Speare, Elizabeth George. The sign of the beaver
  Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
• Tyler, Royall. The Bay boy: or, The autobiography of a youth of Massachusetts Bay
  A semi-autobiographical account of 1700s Boston. Contains delightful sketches of Colonial life, politics, manners, and mores. Also depicts the growing tensions against the strictures of the Crown.
• Walter, Mildred Pitts. Second daughter: the story of a slave girl
  In late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Aissa, the fictional younger sister of Elizabeth Freeman, relates how her sister gains freedom for herself and her family by bringing a suit against their owner in court.
• Wibberley, Leonard. Peter Treegate's war
  Peter becomes imprisoned on a British warship during the American Revolution but manages to escape.
• Wibberley, Leonard. Sea captain from Salem
  Peace of God Manly sails to Paris to tell Ben Franklin about the surrender at Saratoga. He tries to capture British ships in the English channel. He is captured instead but escapes.
• Wibberley, Leonard. Treegate's raiders
  Peter meets George Washington and then leads his men into battles in Tennessee. After being captured and rescued he journeys to Yorktown for the British surrender.
• Willis, Patricia. Danger along the Ohio
  Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

• Alcott, Louisa May. Little women
  The sentimental and humorous adventures of the four March sisters as they grew up in the nineteenth century.
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. The story of a bad boy
  The boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in nineteenth-century New England are based on the author's own experiences.
• Armstrong, Jennifer. Black-eyed Susan
  Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.
• Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal away
  In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
• Arrington, Frances. Bluestem
  With their father away and their mother traumatized by some unknown event, eleven-year-old Polly and her younger sister are left to take care of themselves and their prairie homestead.
• Avi. The barn
  In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
• Avi. Beyond the western sea. Book one: The escape from home
  Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their lives continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
• Avi. The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
• Baker, Betty. The dunderhead war
  The riotous adventures of a seventeen-year-old boy and his German uncle as they join a wagon train headed West from Independence, Missouri and become involved in the Mexican War.
• Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. A coal miner's bride: the diary of Anetka Kaminska
  A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
• Beatty, Jerome. Blockade!
  Recounts the blockade of a North Carolina port by the Union gunboat, Louisiana, based on the diary of teenage participant, Stephen F. Blanding.
• Beatty, Jerome. From New Bedford to Siberia: a Yankee whaleman in the frozen north
  A fifteen-year-old finds more adventure than he expected when he signs onto a whaler for three years.
• Beatty, Patricia. Be ever hopeful, Hannalee
  In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee."
• Beatty, Patricia. By crumbs, it's mine!
  While stranded in the Arizona territory in the 1880's a thirteen-year-old girl finds herself the owner of a traveling hotel.
• Beatty, Patricia. Charley Skedaddle
  During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
• Beatty, Patricia. I want my Sunday, stranger!
  A thirteen-year-old Mormon boy from California makes his way east, searching for his horse which was stolen for use by the Confederates in the Civil War.
• Beatty, Patricia. Me, California Perkins
  Appalled by conditions in the uncivilized nineteenth-century silvermining town to which her husband has brought his family, Mrs. Perkins sends him to live in the town's bachelor quarters, until, a year later, their daughter's determination to go to high school makes reconciliation possible.
• Beatty, Patricia. Wait for me, watch for me, Eula Bee
  With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.
• Beatty, Patricia. Who comes with cannons
  In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
• Blakeslee, Ann R. A different kind of hero
  In 1881 twelve-year-old Renny, who resists his father's efforts to turn him into a rough, tough, brawling boy, earns the disapproval of the entire mining camp when he befriends a newly arrived Chinese boy.
• Blos, Joan W. Brothers of the heart: story of the old Northwest, 1837-1838
  Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.
• Blos, Joan W. A gathering of days
  The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl kept the last year she lived on the family farm; records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
• Brady, Esther Wood. The toad on Capitol Hill
  Eleven-year-old Dorsy and her family come to understand each other better when they are caught in the path of the British Army advancing on Washington in the summer of 1814.
• Brill, Marlene Targ. Diary of a drummer boy
  The fictionalized diary of a twelve-year-old boy who joins the Union army as a drummer and ends up fighting in the Civil War.
• Bryant, Louella. The black bonnet
  As they near the end of their journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad, twelve-year-old Charity and her sixteen-year-old sister Bea encounter additional perils.
• Byars, Betsy Cromer. Trouble River
  When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
• Calvert, Patricia. Betrayed!
  In 1867, after his father's death and his mother's remarriage, fourteen-year-old Tyler and his black friend Isaac set out on the Missouri River headed west to seek their fortunes, encountering an unsavory keel boat captain and a Sioux chief along the way.
• Calvert, Patricia. Bigger
  When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
• Cannon, A. E. Charlotte's Rose
  As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
• Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Stealing freedom
  A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
• Cavanna, Betty. Runaway voyage
  A fictional account of the mid-19th-century voyage, led by Asa Mercer, of several hundred young women going from the east coast to help populate Seattle.
• Chambers, Veronica. Amistad rising: a story of freedom
  A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
• Clements, Bruce. I tell a lie every so often
  In 1848 a fourteen-year-old Missourian, although not a habitual liar, tells two lies that start off an unusual chain of events.
• Collier, James Lincoln. Chipper
  Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must decide where his loyalties lie.
• Collier, James Lincoln. The clock
  In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
• Collier, James Lincoln. With every drop of blood
  While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.
• Conlon-McKenna, Marita. Wildflower girl
  In the mid-nineteenth century, thirteen-year-old Peggy O'Driscoll sets out alone from Ireland for America, hoping to make a better life for herself.
• Conrad, Pam. Prairie songs
  Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
• Corbett, Scott. One by sea
  New England shipwrecks and pirates.
• Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage
  Henry Fleming's fear of what will happen during battles in the Civil War are exacerbated by the action he and the men around him witness.
• Crofford, Emily. Born in the year of courage
  In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West.
• Cross, Gillian. Great elephant chase
  In 1881, fifteen-year-old Tad, an orphan, helps a girl attempting to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, all the while pursued by two unscrupulous villains who claim that the elephant is theirs.
• Cullen, Lynn. Nelly in the wilderness
  In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.
• Curry, Jane Louise. What the Dickens!
  In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.S.
• Cushman, Karen. The ballad of Lucy Whipple
  In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
• Cushman, Karen. Rodzina
  A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
• Dahlberg, Maurine F. The spirit and Gilly Bucket
  In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.
• DeFelice, Cynthia C. The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
  After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
• DeFelice, Cynthia C. Weasel
  Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.
• Demas, Corinne. If ever I return again
  In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to her cousin Abigail.
• Donahue, John. An island far from home
  The twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
• Duey, Kathleen. Amelina Carrett, Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863
  When thirteen-year-old Amelina saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863, the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.
• Duey, Kathleen. Anisett Lundberg: California, 1851
  Anisett and her family are struggling to make ends meet by providing food for miners in the gold camps when Anisett finds a small chunk of gold, which she keeps a secret, until a sinister stranger discovers it.
• Duey, Kathleen. Cave-in, St. Claire, Pennsylvania, 1859
  In 1859 when Rory disguises herself as a boy in order to work in a coal mine in St. Claire, Pennsylvania, she and her friend struggle to survive a cave-in disaster.
• Duffy, James. Radical Red
  The life of a twelve-year-old Irish girl living in Albany, New York, in the 1890s undergoes many changes when she and her mother become involved with Susan B. Anthony and her suffragist movement.
• Erdrich, Louise. The birchbark house
  Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
• Ernst, Kathleen. Retreat from Gettysburg
  In 1863, during the tense week after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Maryland boy faces difficult choices as he is forced to care for a wounded Confederate officer while trying to decide if he himself should leave his family to fight for the Union.
• Fleischman, Paul. The borning room
  Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.
• Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run
  Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
• Fleischman, Sid. Bandit's moon
  Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.
• Fleischman, Sid. Mr. Mysterious & Company
  The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s.
• Forrester, Sandra. Sound the jubilee
  A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War.
• Fritz, Jean. Brady
  A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
• Gauch, Patricia Lee. Thunder at Gettysburg
  Fourteen-year-old Tillie becomes involved in the tragic battle of July 1-3, 1863.
• Gregory, Kristiana. Across the wide and lonesome prairie: the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell, Booneville, Missoura, 1847
  In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
• Guccione, Leslie D. Come morning
  Twelve-year-old Freedom, the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes over his father's work in the Underground Railroad when his father disappears.
• Hahn, Mary Downing. The Gentleman Outlaw and me--Eli: a story of the Old West
  In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling towards Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes.
• Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the dead
  Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
• Hansen, Joyce. Out from this place
  A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.
• Hansen, Joyce. Which way freedom?
  Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• Harness, Cheryl. Ghosts of the Civil War
  The ghost of Willie, President Abraham Lincoln's older son, transports Lindsey back to his own time, where she sees and hears many things from both sides of the Civil War. Includes passages from contemporary documents, a glossary, biographical sketches, and a bibliography.
• Henry, Marguerite. San Domingo: The medicine hat stallion
  In pre-Civil War Wyoming, a teenager's life is complicated when his strangely hostile father trades the boy's beloved horse to the pony express.
• Henty, G. A. With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War
  Presents, chronologically, some of the great battles during the Northern invasion of Virginia during the Civil War.
• Hill, Elizabeth Starr. The banjo player
  In 1888, adopted by a farming couple outside of New Orleans, twelve-year-old orphan Jonathan must choose between security and the excitement of performing as a musician along the river.
• Hill, Kirkpatrick. Minuk: ashes in the pathway
  Twelve-year-old Minuk's traditional Eskimo way of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
• Holm, Jennifer L. Our only May Amelia
  As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
• Hotze, Sollace. A circle unbroken
  Captured by a roving band of Sioux Indians and brought up as the chief's daughter, Rachel is recaptured by her white family and finds it difficult to adjust, as she longs to return to the tribe.
• Howard, Elizabeth. Out of step with the dancers
  When her family moves into a Shaker settlement, sixteen-year-old Damaris finds it difficult to adjust to her new way of life.
• Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils
  Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
• Hurmence, Belinda. Tancy
  At the end of the Civil War, a young house slave on a small North Carolina plantation searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when Tancy was a baby.
• Johnson, Nancy. My brothers' keeper: a Civil War story
  As a young orphaned drummer boy in the Civil War, Josh Parrish joins the 20th Maine in time to be caught up in the battle for Little Round Top.
• Johnston, Norma. Over Jordan
  In 1836, fourteen-year-old Roxana undertakes a dangerous journey up the Ohio River to help her beloved servant, Jess, and Jess' fiance, a runaway slave, escape to freedom, aided by Roxana's former teacher Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• Jones, Elizabeth McDavid. Watcher in the piney woods
  In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
• Karr, Kathleen. The great turkey walk
  In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.
• Keehn, Sally M. Anna Sunday
  In 1863 twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their Pennsylvania home and makes the difficult journey to join their wounded father in Winchester, Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops.
• Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie
  A sweeping novel of the Civil War, this book follows the adventures of a young man determined to join the Union army who somehow befriends the rebels and ends up with friends on both sides of the conflict.
• Ketchum, Liza. Orphan journey home
  In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
• Lampman, Evelyn Sibley. Bargain bride
  Because married settlers could claim twice the land of a bachelor, orphaned Ginny was married when she was ten-years-old. Now fifteen, her husband comes to claim her.
• Lampman, Evelyn Sibley. Half-breed
  A Crow Indian youth returns to his white father's people and to a life in which patience and maturity are the only means to understanding and accepting an unheroic father.
• Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the divide
  In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
• Lasky, Kathryn. True north
  Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
• Laurgaard, Rachel K. Patty Reed's doll: the story of the Donner party
  A wooden doll recalls the hope with which a group of pioneers begins their journey and the ordeals they face as they travel from Springfield, Illinois, to California.
• Lawlor, Laurie. Addie across the prairie
  Sequel: Addie's long summer
  Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie.
• Levin, Betty. Brother moose
  In the late 1800s, two orphan girls, aided by an Indian and his grandson, make a perilous trip to Maine to find a family.
• Levoy, Myron. The magic hat of Mortimer Wintergreen
  In 1893, thirteen-year-old Joshua and his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, travel from South Dakota to New York City with the help of the mysterious Mortimer Wintergreen and his unpredictable magic hat.
• Lord, Athena V. A spirit to ride the whirlwind
  Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runs a company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers.
• Lyon, George Ella. Here and then
  Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.
• Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies
  A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
• MacBride, Roger Lea. Bachelor girl
  Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
• McClung, Robert M. Hugh Glass, mountain man
  A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.
• McDonald, Brix. Riding on the wind
  A tale of Pony Express riders and their lives.
• McGill, Alice. Miles' song
  In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.
• McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Moccasin trail
  A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
• McKissack, Pat. Run away home
  In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
• Meader, Stephen W. The muddy road to glory
  The Civil War told through the eyes of a young soldier.
• Meigs, Cornelia. Swift rivers
  After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
• Meyer, Carolyn. Where the broken heart still beats
  Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
• Minahan, John A. Abigail's drum
  During the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save both him and the town.
• Moeri, Louise. Save Queen of Sheba
  After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.
• Murrow, Liza Ketchum. West against the wind
  Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.
• Myers, Walter Dean. The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy
  In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
• Neufeld, John. Gaps in stone walls
  Twelve-year-old Merry Skiffe, who lives on Martha's Vineyard in the 1880s, runs away from home because she is suspected of having committed a murder.
• Nixon, Joan Lowery. Aggie's home
  A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
• Nixon, Joan Lowery. A dangerous promise
  After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
• Nixon, Joan Lowery. A family apart
  When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
• O'Dell, Scott. The 290
  A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels.
• O'Dell, Scott. Sing down the moon
  A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
• O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the river, river to the sea: a novel of Sacagawea
  A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
• O'Dell, Scott. Thunder rolling in the mountains
  In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
• Paterson, Katherine. Jip: his story
  While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
• Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie
  Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
• Paterson, Katherine. Preacher's boy
  In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
• Paulsen, Gary. Mr. Tucket
  (Series includes several other titles)
  In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
• Paulsen, Gary. Sarny, a life remembered
  Sequel to: Nightjohn
  Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
• Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble don't last
  Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
• Peck, Richard. Fair weather
  In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
• Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Keeper of the light
  After her father's death in 1872, Faith takes over his job as lighthouse keeper on Lake Superior, until her mother decides to move into town, where Faith finds herself stifled by the role society expects her to play.
• Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Riding the flume
  In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.
• Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Abraham Lincoln : letters from a slave girl
  A fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a twelve-year-old slave girl that discusses his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Pryor, Bonnie. Joseph: a rumble of war, 1861
  After his stepfather becomes an abolitionist, ten-year-old Joseph struggles with his own thoughts about slavery as he sees its divisive power in his small Kentucky town.
• Reeder, Carolyn. Captain Kate
  Determined to take her father's coal-carrying barge on the C&O Canal from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in D.C., twelve-year-old Kate learns hurtful truths about herself.
• Rees, Douglas. Lightning Time
  Fourteen-year-old Theodore Worth struggles with the decision to leave his home in Boston and join the controversial abolitionist John Brown in the fight against slavery.
• Richter, Conrad. The light in the forest
  True Son became an Indian when he was captured at four from the field of his parents' Pennsylvania frontier farm. When he is forced to return to his parents, he is torn by the conflict between the free Indian life and the restrictions of the settlers.
• Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia's war
  When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
• Rinaldi, Ann. In my father's house
  For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.
• Robinet, Harriette. Forty acres and maybe a mule
  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.
• Robinet, Harriette. Missing from Haymarket Square
  Three children in Chicago in 1886 experience the Haymarket Riot in response to exploitative working conditions.
• Roop, Peter. Girl of the shining mountains: Sacagawea's story
  Sacagawea describes how, at the age of sixteen, she becomes part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and serves as their interpreter and guide, surviving many dangerous adventures on their trek through the wilderness.
• Ryan, Pam Munoz. Riding freedom
  A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
• Sandoz, Mari. The horsecatcher
  Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.
• Schultz, Jan Neubert. Firestorm
  Maggie hates moving from beautiful Superior, Wisconsin, to dusty Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894, until she almost loses her family to a forest fire that sweeps through the town.
• Steele, William O. The perilous road
  Chris hates the Yankees who robbed him but when he reports the presence of a Yankee patrol to the Confederates, he realizes too late he may have betrayed his own brother.
• Stevens, Carla. Anna, Grandpa, and the big storm
  Anna's grandfather is bored with city life until he and Anna are stranded on the Third Avenue El during the blizzard of 1888.
• Stolz, Mary. Cezanne Pinto
  In his old age Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his escape to a new life in the North.
• Talbot, Charlene Joy. An orphan for Nebraska
  Orphaned on the journey to America in 1872, a young Irish boy finally makes his way to Nebraska where he goes to work for a newspaper editor and learns to do the work of a printer's devil.
• Talbot, Charlene Joy. The sodbuster venture
  Following a dying man's last request, thirteen-year-old Maud helps the man's fiance homestead his claim on the Kansas prairie in 1870.
• Taylor, Theodore. Teetoncey
  Sequels: Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal and The odyssey of Ben O'Neal
  In this first novel of a trilogy, eleven-year-old Ben rescues an English girl from a shipwreck off the Outer Banks of North Carolina; and, though she becomes part of his family, she never speaks.
• Tolliver, Ruby C. Muddy banks
  A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.
• Turner, Ann Warren. Grasshopper summer
  In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.
• Turner, Ann Warren. Third girl from the left
  Itching to do something different, eighteen-year-old Sarah leaves Maine for the harsh Montana environment as a mail-order bride, and is soon left a widow with a 2000-acre ranch to run.
• Van Leeuwen, Jean. Bound for Oregon
  A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
• Wait, Lea. Stopping to home
  In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her discover a way to support them all.
• Warner, Sally. Finding Hattie
  In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.
• Whelan, Gloria. Fruitlands
  Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.
• Wibberley, Leonard. The last battle
  Manly and Peter Treegate find themselves aboard the same ship off the West Indies as captain and midshipman respectively during the War of 1812.
• Wilkins, Celia. Across the rolling river
  Follows the experiences of Caroline Quiner, who will become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family on their farm on the Wisconsin frontier during the year in which Caroline turns twelve.
• Wisler, G. Clifton. The drummer boy of Vicksburg
  In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• Wisler, G. Clifton. Piper's Ferry: a tale of the Texas Revolution
  A fourteen-year-old ferry worker joins the army to fight for Texas's independence.
• Wisler, G. Clifton. Red Cap
  A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
• Yates, Elizabeth. Patterns on the wall
  Adventures of a man who travels through New England, painting and decorating homes.
• Yates, Elizabeth. Prudence Crandall: woman of courage
  A new edition of the historical novel of the Quaker teacher who in 1833 opened a school for African-American women and girls.
• Yep, Laurence. Dragon's gate
  Sequel to: Mountain light
  When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
• Young, Alida E. Land of the iron dragon
  A 14-year-old Chinese boy is left without a family in the United States and joins the crews building the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

• Alexander, Lloyd. The Gawgon and The Boy
  In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life.
• Beatty, Patricia. Eight mules from Monterey
  During the summer of 1916 thirteen-year-old Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains, where she is to establish library outposts in isolated communities.
• Burch, Robert. Ida Early comes over the mountain
  Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons.
• Coleman, Evelyn. Circle of fire
  In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Collier, James Lincoln. The jazz kid
  Playing the coronet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.
• Conn, Martha Orr. Crazy to fly
  In 1918, after his first exposure to flying, a young farm boy determines to be a pilot despite his father's bitter opposition.
• Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy
  Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father-the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
• Davies, Jacqueline. Where the ground meets the sky
  During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project.
• Davis, Ossie. Just like Martin
  Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.
• DeFelice, Cynthia C. Lostman's River
  In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.
• Duey, Kathleen. Agnes May Gleason, Walsenburg, Colorado, 1932
  In 1932, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.
• Duey, Kathleen. Alexia Ellery Finsdale, San Francisco, 1905
  In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia.
• Duey, Kathleen. Francesca Vigilucci, Washington, D.C., 1913
  The women's suffrage movement is coming close to victory in 1913, and when thirteen-year-old Francesca meets a prominent suffragist at one of her mother's charity luncheons, she finds the courage to admit her secret dream of becoming a reporter.
• Durbin, William. Song of Sampo Lake
  In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.
• Giff, Patricia Reilly. All the way home
  In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
• Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's crossing
  During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
• Greene, Bette. Summer of my German soldier
  Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
• Greene, Constance C. Dotty's suitcase
  During the Depression 12-year-old Dotty's dream of traveling seems remote until she finds money from a bank robbery and sets off with a companion in a snowstorm to visit her best friend in a neighboring town.
• Hamilton, Virginia. Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed
  In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.
• Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust
  In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
• Hooks, William H. Circle of fire
  Shortly before Christmas, 1936, eleven-year-old Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a band of Irish tinkers camped nearby and realizes he must do something to prevent it.
• Hurwitz, Johanna. Dear Emma
  Sequel to: Faraway summer
  In her letters to a Vermont friend, eighth grader Dossi, a Russian, Jewish immigrant living in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1910, shares her thoughts about her new brother-in-law, the diphtheria epidemic, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
• Hyatt, Patricia Rusch. Coast to coast with Alice
  Sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns relates her experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909.
• Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the river sea
  Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
• Karr, Kathleen. The cave
  As drought and the Depression threaten to destroy her family's South Dakota farm, twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wondrous cave, which becomes both her own private delight and a possible salvation for the family.
• Langton, Jane. The boyhood of Grace Jones
  A young girl persists in being a tomboy despite the disapproval of her parents and classmates - set during the Depression.
• Lehrman, Robert. The store that Mama built
  In 1917 twelve-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his struggle to succeed in America.
• Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at night
  When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Levinson, Riki. Boys here--girls there
  During the Depression, the year that six-year-old Jennie starts school brings many changes to her loving Jewish family, including her father's loss of his job and the birth of a new baby.
• Levitin, Sonia. Annie's promise
  Sequel to: Silver Days
  Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 give twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants.
• Levoy, Myron. Alan and Naomi
  In New York of the 1940's a boy tries to befriend a girl traumatized by Nazi brutality in France.
• Littlefield, Holly. Fire at the Triangle factory
  Two fourteen-year-old girls, sewing machine operators at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, are caught in the famous Triangle fire of 1911.
• Lyon, George Ella. Borrowed children
  Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
• Manley, Joan B. She flew no flags
  In early 1944, as the war rages around them, an American family travels from India to the United States by ship, under blackout conditions, through the enemy waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
• Mazer, Norma Fox. Good night, Maman
  After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
• McKissack, Pat. Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
  Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
• Moranville, Sharelle Byars. Over the river
  In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
• Murray, Michele. The crystal nights
  Elly is painfully awakened to the realities of the world around her when her aunt and cousin move into their overcrowded farmhouse after fleeing Hitler's persecution of the Jews.
• O'Leary, Patsy Baker. With wings as eagles
  In 1938 in rural North Carolina, twelve-year-old Bubba Hawkins finds himself in emotional turmoil when his father returns from prison to resume his life with his wife and sons and his black neighbors.
• Peck, Richard. A long way from Chicago
  A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
• Peck, Richard. A year down yonder
  Sequel to: A long way from Chicago
  In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
• Peck, Robert Newton. Arly
  Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.
• Peck, Robert Newton. Cowboy ghost
  Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.
• Robinet, Harriette. Walking to the bus-rider blues
  Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
• Rogers, Kenny. Christmas in Canaan
  In the early 1960s in a rural, racially-charged Texas town, a poor white boy struggling to get through school and a book-loving black classmate find the common ground on which to build true friendship.
• Ross, Ramon Royal. Harper & Moon
  Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.
• Rostkowski, Margaret I. After the dancing days
  A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
• Salisbury, Graham. Under the blood-red sun
  Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
• Savin, Marcia. The moon bridge
  The friendship between San Francisco girls Mitzi Fujimoto and Ruthie Fox is changed when World War II begins and Mitzi and her family are forced to go into an internment camp.
• Taylor, Mildred D. The road to Memphis
  Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
• Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of thunder, hear my cry
  A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
• Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-kind family
  Five young sisters experience life in New York's Lower East Side at the beginning of the 20th century. The close-knit group encounters everyday realities such as boring chores, missing library books, and trips to the Rivington Street market, as well as those details which bring the early 1900's to life--scarlet fever, peddlers, and bathing at Coney Island. Woven into the story are the traditions and holidays of the Jewish religion.
• Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-kind family downtown
  The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
• Thrasher, Crystal. The dark didn't catch me
  Able to find beauty in the hills of southern Indiana, Seeley withstands the work, troubles, and sorrows that encompass her family during the depression.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. A jar of dreams
  A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
• Vander Els, Betty. The bombers' moon
  In the summer of 1942, an American missionary family living in China is separated when the two children are evacuated to India with their school class to escape the Japanese invasion.
• Whitmore, Arvella. The bread winner
  When both her parents are unable to find work and pay the bills during the Great Depression, resourceful Sarah Ann Puckett saves the family from the poorhouse by selling her prizewinning homemade bread.
• Wiegand, Roberta. The year of the comet
  Sarah, ten years old in 1910, finds much to enjoy in her family's adventure-filled life on the American prairie, despite fears that the appearance of Halley's comet may signal the end of the world.
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  When Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her spinster aunts in Riverboro, Rebecca's aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives. Rebecca, with her wide dark eyes and spirit that no walls can contain, will change their lives -- and the lives of everyone she meets -- forever.
• Williams, Barbara. Making waves
  Having survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, twelve-year-old Emily lives in Baltimore where she attends school but also encounters child labor, sweatshops, and the struggle of labor unions.
• Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6
  In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

• Behn, Harry. The faraway lurs
  The romance of two young people from warring tribes in the early Bronze Age.
• Osborne, Chester G. The memory string
  Darath and his sister spend a winter on the Siberian peninsula some 30,000 years ago learning how to heal, to use the moon sticks, and to remember the stories of the memory string before their tribe begins searching for a legendary land to the east where there are no people and lots of game.

• Faulkner, Nancy. The sacred jewel
  One of four young people may be the culprit who stole the Arch-Druids sacred jewel and he may pay for it with his life. Set in the Druidic tribes of ancient Britain.
• Garthwaite, Marion. The Locked Crowns
  The story of Haverlock the Dane and the Princess Goldborough of England is retold.
• Leighton, Margaret. Journey for a Princess
  King Alfred the Great has succeeded in arresting the onslaught of the dread Vikings and securing a shaky peace for his English people. His youngest daughter, Princess Elstrid, is just turning fourteen when an offer of marriage from one of those Vikings must be considered.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. The eagle of the Ninth
  A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. Knight's fee
  Tells the story of Randal, a half-Saxon half-Breton lad in Norman England, an orphan left to fend for himself as a dog-boy in Arundel castle, and details his gradual rise to knighthood and freedom, at a terrible price.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. The lantern bearers
  Set in the brief Romano-Celtic twilight between the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of Anglo-Saxon Britain, this is the story of Aquila, a Roman soldier who chooses to stay among his adopted people. However, his world crashes to pieces when he and his sister are enslaved by the Saxons, their father slain and their farm destroyed.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. The shining company
  In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.

• Alder, Elizabeth. The king's shadow
  After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.
• Avi. Crispin: the cross of lead
  Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
• Branford, Henrietta. Fire, bed, and bone
  In 1381 in England, a hunting dog recounts what happens to his beloved master Rufus and his family when they are arrested on suspicion of being part of the peasants' rebellion led by Wat Tyler and the preacher John Ball.
• Collins, Meghan. Maiden crown
  Sixteen-year-old Sophie, having left her Russian homeland to marry the Danish king, struggles to preserve a sense of her own value against the court intrigue and double standards of 12th-century Denmark.
• Cushman, Karen. Catherine, called Birdy
  The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
• Cushman, Karen. Matilda Bone
  Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
• Cushman, Karen. The midwife's apprentice
  In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
• De Angeli, Marguerite. The door in the wall
  A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
• Furlong, Monica. Robin's country
  A mute orphan boy, with only shadowy recollections of his past, runs away from his cruel master and eventually joins Robin Hood and his followers in their forest hideaway.
• Hendry, Frances Mary. Quest for a maid
  Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir.
• Konigsburg, E. L. A proud taste for scarlet and miniver
  While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
• McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The striped ships
  Juliana, an eleven-year-old Saxon girl, loses her home and family when the Normans conquer England in 1066 and seeks to order her life by becoming involved in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry.
• Morris, Gerald. The squire's tale
  In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and revealing an important secret about his own true identity.
• O'Dell, Scott. The road to Damietta
  Deeply attached to the charming and carefree Francis Bernardone, Cecilia, a young noblewoman of Assisi, watches as he turns from his life of wealth and privilege, takes vows of poverty, and devotes himself to serving God by helping all those around him.
• Phillips, Ann. The peace child
  Set in tumultous 14th-Century England, this is the story of a blood feud between the Butler and Castell families. As a method of bringing an end to their dissension, the families agree to an exchange of children at birth to ensure peace between them. This is the fast-moving adventures of ten-year-old Alys, who discovers that she is the ``Peace Child,'' exchanged by her noble city-dwelling family at birth with the child of their landed gentry rivals. Upon absorbing this astounding news, Alys sets off to London to find her real parents and siblings, encountering a varied cast of thieves, beggars, pilgrims, and minstrels on the way.
• Platt, Richard. Castle diary: the journal of Tobias Burgess, page
  As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.
• Pyle, Howard. Men of iron
  A boy's story of the time of Henry IV, of England, who, with the men of his court, are the "men of iron."
• Scott, Walter, Sir. Ivanhoe
  Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft--but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. The wicked Prince John plots to usurp England's throne, but two of the most popular heroes in all of English literature, Richard-the-Lion-Hearted and the well-loved famous outlaw, Robin Hood, team up to defeat the Normans and regain the castle.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. The witch's brat
  The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.

• McCaffrey, Anne. Black horses for the king
  Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known as King Arthur, using his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle against the Saxons.
• Morpurgo, Michael. Arthur, high king of Britain
  A twelve-year-old boy comes across Arthur Pendragon, who has just awakened from his long sleep beneath the earth, and hears from him some of the exciting stories of his past.

• Avi. Midnight magic
  In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
• Dana, Barbara. Young Joan
  Joan, a girl growing up in the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn country in opposition to the English invaders.
• Garden, Nancy. Dove and sword
  In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.
• Kelly, Eric Philbrook. The trumpeter of Krakow
  A story of a courageous patriot and a mysterious jewel of great value.
• Konigsburg, E. L. The second Mrs. Giaconda
  Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.
• Molina Llorente, Pilar. The apprentice
  Working as an artist's apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old Arduino makes a discovery which may cost him the chance to become a painter.
• Morpurgo, Michael. Joan of Arc of Domremy
  While sitting on the riverbank in the ancient French city of Orleans, seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice which relates the adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine, Joan of Arc, as she fights to free France by driving out the English.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. The black arrow : a tale of the two roses
  A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.
• Williams, Laura E. The executioner's daughter
  Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate.

• Beatty, John Louis. Holdfast
  An Irish orphan, separated from her wolfhound when they are captured and taken to England in the reign of Elizabeth I, yearns for her dog and native land.
• Bennett, John. Master Skylark: a story of Shakspere's time
  A young boy with an exceptional voice joins a theater group but never loses his desire to be with his family.
• Calhoun, Mary. White witch of Kynance
  In sixteenth-century Cornwall a young girl is apprenticed to a white witch to learn the art of herbs and healing.
• Cheaney, J. B. The playmaker
  While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthow Queen Elizabeth.
• Hilgartner, Beth. A murder for Her Majesty
  Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven-year- Alice Tuckfield hides in the Yorkshire cathedral by disguising herself as one of the choirboys.
• Lasky, Kathryn. Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor
  In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
• Napoli, Donna Jo. Daughter of Venice
  Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
• O'Dell, Scott. The hawk that dare not hunt by day
  Amid political turmoil and threats of plague, young Tom Barton accepts the risks of helping William Tyndale publish and smuggle into England the Bible he has translated into English.
• Pope, Elizabeth Marie. The perilous gard
  In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.
• Stolz, Mary. Bartholomew Fair
  On an August day in 1598 six people, including Queen Elizabeth, a wealthy cloth merchant, a scullery maid, two schoolboys, and an overworked apprentice, attend London's Bartholomew's Fair and come away with unforgettable experiences.
• Twain, Mark. The prince and the pauper
  A beggar and a prince look so alike that they change places but then cannot immediately switch back.

• Blackwood, Gary L. The Shakespeare stealer
  A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
• Blackwood, Gary L. Shakespeare's scribe
  In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
• Bulla, Clyde Robert. A lion to guard us
  Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
• Gilson, Jamie. Stink alley
  Living in Holland in 1614 with the harsh Puritan leader, William Brewster, and working for the family of a mischievous Dutch boy named Rembrandt, a spirited twelve-year-old orphan girl struggles to do what is right.
• Paton Walsh, Jill. A parcel of patterns
  Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how three-fourths of them died before the end of the following year.
• Polland, Madeleine A. Shattered summer
  A nineteen-year-old girl's betrothal throws her into the heart of the uprising led by the Duke of Monmouth against the English crown in 1685.
• Schlein, Miriam. I sailed with Columbus
  Describes Columbus' first voyage of discovery as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old ship's boy.
• Strickland, Brad. Mutiny!
  "The lawless Caribbean of the 1680s is a hotbed of sailors, spies, and pirate gold, where the line between patriot and privateer is a thin one. New to this exciting and dangerous world, fourteen-year-old orphan Davy Shea arrives a the home of his disreputable uncle Patch..."
• Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de. I, Juan de Pareja
  Based on "thin threads" of truth, "I, Juan de Pareja" explores the relationship between famous 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez and his black slave, Juan de Pareja. Written in first person as if Juan is really telling his story, it is the chronicle of much of Juan's life and and his colorful experiences as apprentice to a master painter.

• Casanova, Mary. Cecile: gates of gold
  In 1711, twelve-year-old Cecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.
• Conlon-McKenna, Marita. Fields of home
  In the latter part of the nineteenth century, their varied circumstances in Ireland and in America convince Peggy and Michael O'Driscoll and Eily O'Driscoll Powers of the importance of family.
• Garfield, Leon. The December rose
  A young sweep's fall down the wrong chimney in Victorian London lands him in the center of a terrifying chain of events that includes espionage, treachery, and murder.
• Hendry, Frances Mary. Quest for a kelpie
  In the days before the Scottish uprising of 1745 against the English throne, a young girl fantasizes about riding a wild horse.
• Henty, G. A. In the reign of terror: the adventures of a Westminster boy
  Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis, and after various adventures accompanies the family to Paris at the crisis of the Revolution.
• Hesse, Karen. Stowaway
  A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
• Hunter, Mollie. The Lothian run
  In 1736 in Edinburgh a lawyer's clerk finds himself involved in more than a routine smuggling affair.
• McCaughrean, Geraldine. Plundering paradise
  Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
• Nichol, Barbara. Beethoven lives upstairs
  The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.
• Schmidt, Gary D. Anson's way
  While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in eighteenth-century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with the law of King George II.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. Flame-colored taffeta
  Twelve-year-old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community near the southern coast of England in the eighteenth century.
• Wiley, Melissa. Down to the bonny glen
  In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.

• Aiken, Joan. Black hearts in Battersea
  Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.
• Aiken, Joan. The wolves of Willoughby Chase
  The story of how two young girls survive the misdeeds of their wicked governess with the help of Simon, the goose boy.
• Brink, Carol Ryrie. Mademoiselle Misfortune
  Six sisters in France try to make their way in the world.
• Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
  In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
• Burgess, Melvin. The copper treasure
  In mid-nineteenth century London, three young boys try to retrieve a valuable roll of copper from the bottom of the Thames River.
• Cole, Sheila. The dragon in the cliff: a novel based on the life of Mary Anning
  Recounts the girlhood of the woman who made many of the important fossil discoveries in the early nineteenth century, yet never received the credit she deserved.
• Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker or, The silver skates, a story of life in Holland
  A young boy tells of his life in Holland in the 1800s.
• Doherty, Berlie. Street child
  A novel based on the life of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in London in the 1860s and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's "ragged" children.
• Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's song
  When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
• Hausman, Gerald. Tom Cringle: battle on the high seas
  Sequel: Tom Cringle, the pirate and the patriot
  During the War of 1812, a thirteen-year-old officer in the British navy records in his logbook his capture by pirates off the coast of Jamaica.
• Holub, Josef. The robber and me
  Because he knows that the man accused of robbery is innocent, an eleven-year-old orphan struggles to find courage to reveal the truth to his uncle in their small German village in 1867.
• Howard, Ellen. The gate in the wall
  In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
• Lawrence, Iain. The wreckers
  Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
• Sturtevant, Katherine. At the sign of the star
  In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's bookstore.
• Weir, Joan. The brideship
  Life in England in 1862 is anything but easy for 15-year-old Sarah and her cousin Maud. They are looking for relief from the orphanage where they have been placed and when they hear what sounds like a good opportunity in Canada, they volunteer. Unfortunately, they are not aware that they are intended as brides for the gold rush prospectors. By the time they understand their predicament, it is too late.

• Aaron, Chester. Gideon: a novel
  After losing family and friends, Gideon must bury religion and identity in order to survive the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp during World War II.
• Anderson, Margaret Jean. Searching for Shona
  During the evacuation of children from Edinburgh in the early days of World War II, shy, wealthy Margaret on her way to relatives in Canada trades places and identities with the orphaned Shona bound for the Scottish countryside.
• Anderson, Rachel. Paper faces
  Although life in London during World War II has been difficult for Dot and her mother, the young girl is frightened by the changes that the end of the war brings, particularly the impending return of the father she has never known.
• Cooper, Susan. Dawn of fear
  Three English children, fascinated by the war air raids, gradually become aware of true fear and horror when they seek vengeance on an opposing gang that destroyed their hideaway.
• Dank, Milton. The dangerous game
  Love of Paris and France prompts a sixteen-year-old to join the resistance movement shortly after the Nazi invasion of 1940.
• Degens, T. Transport 7-41-R
  A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
• Drucker, Malka. Jacob's rescue: a Holocaust story
  In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
• Frank, Rudolf. No hero for the kaiser
  Jan, a fourteen-year-old Polish boy whose town is invaded in World War I, joins a German battalion and experiences the horrors of battle.
• Garrigue, Sheila. All the children were sent away
  An eight-year-old British girl experiences loneliness and fear when she and many other children are evacuated to Canada during World War II.
• Gehrts, Barbara. Don't say a word
  Living in Berlin during World War II, Anna finds herself and her family growing more and more aware of the dangerous direction in which her country is moving as her friends start to die.
• Haugaard, Erik Christian. The little fishes
  A tale of the tragedy of war: the story of a twelve-year-old orphaned beggar in occupied Italy, his daily search for food and for meaning in the life he witnesses, and the development of compassion and understanding that will help him survive.
• Hough, Richard Alexander. Razor eyes
  More than forty years after the fact, a farmer details his experiences as a British pilot in World War II and the maturing effect they had on him.
• Hunter, Mollie. A sound of chariots
  A young girl growing up in Scotland after World War I tries to come to terms with her grief over her father's death and her increasing sense of the passage of time.
• Isaacs, Anne. Torn thread
  In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.
• Lingard, Joan. Tug of war
  Follows the fortunes of the Peterson family as they flee their native Latvia before the advancing Russian armies in late 1944 and find themselves homeless refugees in a war-torn Germany.
• Lowry, Lois. Number the stars
  In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
• Magorian, Michelle. Back home
  Sent to America from England at age seven to escape war-torn England, Rusty returns five years later to go to a strict English boarding school and renew her relationship with her family, who now seem like strangers to her.
• Maguire, Gregory. The good liar
  Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.
• Matas, Carol. Daniel's story
  Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
• Morpurgo, Michael. Waiting for Anya
  Set in a small town in Nazi occupied France during WW II, the story centers on Jo, son of a German prisoner of war, who becomes involved with a group of fleeing Jewish children.
• Orgel, Doris. The devil in Vienna
  A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.
• Reuter, Bjarne B. The boys from St. Petri
  In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
• Shemin, Margaretha. The empty moat
  As World War II progresses, a sixteen-year-old girl in occupied Holland becomes more and more aware that she cannot remain aloof from the war despite fear of arousing the displeasure of Nazis.
• Vos, Ida. Anna is still here
  Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
• Vos, Ida. Dancing on the bridge of Avignon
  Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
• Westall, Robert. Time of fire
  In England during World War II, with his mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny tries to understand the darkest truths of war and retribution.
• Williams, Laura E. Behind the bedroom wall
  Thirteen-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

• Almedingen, E. M. Young Mark
  Chronicles the adventurous journey of a fourteen-year-old lad who leaves his eighteenth-century manor home in the Ukraine to make his way to St. Petersburg where he seeks a career as a singer.

• Holman, Felice. The wild children
  Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life.
• Meyer, Carolyn. Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess
  A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
• Whelan, Gloria. Angel on the square
  In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

• O'Dell, Scott. The amethyst ring
  Spanish seminarian Julian Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcan and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortes and Pizarro.
  

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