Historical - United States - 20th Century
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Betsy-Tacy and Tib
$9.99 Add to cartThree of a Kind
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don’t. Sometimes they
- Series: Betsy-Tacy #2
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 5, 2000
- ISBN10: 0064400972
- Language: English
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Rivka’s Presents
$18.99 Read moreIn this heartwarming story about the importance of community, a little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can’t start school because her father is sick, so she m
- Author: Wallmark, Laurie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593482077
- Language: English
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Finding Langston
$8.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville dist
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0823445828
- Language: English
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Turtle in Paradise
$8.99 Add to cartIn Jennifer L. Holm’s New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn’t like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She’… [more below]
- Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 037583690X
- Language: English
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Light Comes to Shadow Mountain
$17.99 Add to cartCora Mae Tipton is determined to light up her Appalachian community in this historical fiction novel from an award-winning author and former librarian.
It’s 1937 and the government is pushing to bring- Author: Buzzeo, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0823453847
- Language: English
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Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children’s Crusade Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreIt’s May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Butler-Ngugi, Anitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669059499
- Language: English
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Uprising
$13.99 Add to cartThe fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416911723
- Language: English
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How to Catch a Polar Bear
$18.99 Read moreIn this “funny and heartwarming” (Booklist) historical fiction companion to The Rhino in Right Field, Nick’s summer gets way more exciting when a polar bear escapes from the local zoo–perfect for fan… [more below]
- Series: Washington Park Stories
- Author: Dekeyser, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1665925612
- Language: English
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Okay for Now: A National Book Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartBeloved author Gary D. Schmidt expertly blends comedy and tragedy in the story of Doug Swieteck, an unhappy “teenage thug” first introduced in The Wednesday Wars, who finds consolation and a sense of
- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 5-Feb-13
- ISBN10: 0544022807
- Language: English
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Someplace to Call Home
$9.99 Add to cart2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List. 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award (tied for 1st place). In 1933, what’s left of the Turner family–twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers–finds itse… [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1585364150
- Language: English
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The Seventh Most Important Thing
$8.99 Add to cartThis “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.
NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS
AN ALA NO- Author: Pearsall, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0553497316
- Language: English
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Adventures with Claudie
$16.99 Read moreClaudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family’s story will inspire her for the vari
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Bennett, Brit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1683372085
- Language: English
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Bea and the New Deal Horse
$19.99 Add to cartThis lyrical middle grade historical novel set during the Great Depression from award-winning author L. M. Elliott is a moving tale of the spirit of American persistence, found family, and the magical
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 006321900X
- Language: English
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The Secret Sisters
$18.99 Add to cartNewbery medalist Avi tells the story of a young girl determined to define her own place amidst old rules and new ways in the Roaring Twenties.
Attending high school in Steamboat Springs is Ida Bidson’s
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0358248086
- Language: English
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Once in a Blue Moon
$17.99 Read moreA beautiful and uplifting novel in verse about family, friendship, journeys that take us far from home and back again, renewed and more courageous from the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winner o… [more below]
- Author: Flake, Sharon G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593480988
- Language: English
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We Dream of Space: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book – BookPage Best Books – Chicago Public Library Best Fiction – Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee – Horn Book Fanfare – New York Times Notable Children’s Book – School Library Journa
- Author: Kelly, Erin Entrada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062747312
- Language: English
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Out of the Dust: Novel
$8.99 Add to cartAcclaimed author Karen Hesse’s Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.
Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold
- Series: Apple Signature Edition
- Author: Hesse, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0590371258
- Language: English
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I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (I Survived #5): Volume 5
$5.99 Add to cartThe terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco — not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he’… [more below]
- Series: I Survived #05
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0545206995
- Language: English
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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
$18.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, Ground Zero, and Two Degrees comes this heart-pounding, inventive, and powerful new novel about the 1
- Author: Gratz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1338736078
- Language: English
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Cora and the Terrible Twister: A Tri-State Tornado Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartCora 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166905943X
- Language: English
