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Sugar
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ages 9 - 12
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n 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
A City Tossed and Broken
by Judy Blundell
Ages 9 - 12
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When Minnie Bonner's father disappears, the wealthy gentleman Edward Sump, led by his avaricious wife, offers Minnie a chance to work as a lady's maid. The Sumps have grand plans, grander than the city of Philadelphia can offer, and decide to move to San Francisco - the greatest city in the west. But when a powerful earthquake strikes, Minnie finds herself the sole survivor among them.
One came home
by Amy Timberlake
Ages 10 and up
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Gingersnap
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Ages 9 - 12
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When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.
Navigating Early
by Clare Vanderpool
Ages 9 - 12
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Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters.
True colors
by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Ages 9 - 12
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In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
Will Sparrow's road
by Karen Cushman
Ages 10 and up Get the book
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
Sophia's war
by Avi
Ages 9 - 12
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In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
Katerina's wish
by Jeannie Mobley
Ages 9 - 12
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Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm. But by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
The unfortunate son
by Constance Leeds
Ages 9 - 12
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Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
