Historical - United States - 20th Century
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The Silent Boy
$9.99 Read moreKaty Thatcher was the bright and curious daughter of the town doctor. She was fascinated by her father’s work, and even as a child she knew that she too wanted to be a doctor. She wanted to know about… [more below]
- Author: Lowry, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 544935225
- Language: English
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Witness
$8.99 Read moreNewbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale.
Witness joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved nov… [more below]
- Author: Hesse, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1338359673
- Language: English
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A Year Down Yonder
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Medal Winner
Richard Peck’s Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice’s childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel’s sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to f- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 21 2002
- ISBN10: 0142300705
- Language: English
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A Sweet Smell of Roses
$8.99 Read moreTwo young girls not only witness but help to change history in this inspiring and urgent Civil Rights-era picture book by three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Angela Johnson.
There’s a sweet, sw- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416953612
- Language: English
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Wolf Hollow
$18.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book
New York Times Bestseller
“Wolf Hollow has stayed with me long after I closed the book. It has the feel of an instant classic.” –Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medalist and New York Times… [more below]- Author: Wolk, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1101994827
- Language: English
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The Storyteller’s Candle / La Velita de Los Cuentos
$11.95 Add to cartPura Belpr? Author Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)
Pura Belpr? Illustrator Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)Bilingual English/Spanish. A bilingual biography of Pura Bel
- Author: Gonzalez, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0892392371
- Language: Spanish
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Al Capone Does My Homework
$9.99 Add to cartAlcatraz Island in the 1930s isn’t the most normal place to grow up, but it’s home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose’s dad gets promoted … [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #3
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0142425222
- Language: English
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Cora and the Terrible Twister: A Tri-State Tornado Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreCora Moffat is struggling to concentrate on her English class when her teacher’s focus lands on a classroom window. As the class turns to look, they see an enormous black cloud, angry and vicious, hea… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Ficorilli, Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669059421
- Language: English
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Nanea: Hula for the Home Front
$7.99 Read moreEverything has changed since the war started. Nanea had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But it hasn’t. There are still curfews and blackouts and constant reminders o… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Larson, Kirby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371399
- Language: English
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Three Strike Summer
$17.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews!
“Told in a voice that is so real it reeks of filched peaches, this book is a home run.”
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection
A Horn Book Magazine Best Book of 2022- Author: Schrempp, Skyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1534499148
- Language: English
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes
$9.99 Add to cartWhat do you do when your neighbors are a bunch of hit men, con men, and mad dog murderers? Well, if you’re Moose Flanagan, you ask the most notorious convict of them all, Al Capone, for help. But when… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #2
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0142417181
- Language: English
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Paper Wishes
$9.99 Add to cartA moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II–and the dog she has to leave behind.
Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how- Author: Sepahban, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1250104149
- Language: English
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Samantha: The Gift
$7.99 Add to cartSamantha is a wealthy orphan growing up in 1904. Her grandmother is raising her as a proper young lady with the best of everything. Still, Samantha is lonely. When her Uncle Gard comes to visit with h… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hirsch, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1683371917
- Language: English
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Suspect Red
$8.99 Add to cartIt’s 1953, and the United States has just executed an American couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Everyone is on edge as the Cold War standoff between communism and democracy leads to th
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18, 2018
- ISBN10: 1423159837
- Language: English
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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreIn 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496584481
- Language: English
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Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves
$9.99 Read moreIn this moving and timeless story, award-winning author L. M. Elliott captures life on the U.S. homefront during World War II, weaving a rich portrait of a family reeling from loss and the chilling ye
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063056577
- Language: English
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That Book Woman
$18.99 Add to cartAn exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them.
Cal is not the readin’ type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains- Author: Henson, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 1416908129
- Language: English
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All the Broken Pieces
$8.99 Read moreAn award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.
Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind. … [more below]
- Author: Burg, Ann E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0545080932
- Language: English
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Sobrevivà El Terremoto de San Francisco, 1906 (I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906)
$5.99 Add to cartThe terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page
iLa versi n en espa ol de I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 A Leo, de diez a os, le gusta ser vendedor de peri… [more below]
- Series: Sobreviv? #5
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1338601210
- Language: Spanish
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Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble
$10.95 Read moreThe day he buried his pa, Nobe Chase lost everythinghis father, his home, and his dog. Worst yet, he had to move into town to live with Sheriff Leonard, the man who’d shot his dog dead. From that mome… [more below]
- Author: Myers, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1937054667
- Language: English
