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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.
With the Might of Angels
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ages 9 - 12
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In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school.
Like the willow tree
by Lois Lowry
Ages 9 - 12
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After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.
The fences between us
by Kirby Larson
Ages 9 - 12
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Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, and the United States goes to war.
A Time for Courage
by Kathryn Lasky
Ages 9 - 12
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A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family.
Our Strange New Land
by Patricia Hermes
Ages 9 - 12
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Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
I Walk in Dread
by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Ages 9 - 12
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Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village in 1691 Massachussetts. When four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials.
Early Sunday Morning
by Barry Denenberg
Ages 9 - 12
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In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Standing in the Light
by Mary Pope Osborne
Ages 9 - 12
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A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
My Heart Is on the Ground
by Ann Rinaldi
Ages 9 - 12
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The 1880 diary of a Sioux girl who is sent to a government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania to learn the white man's customs and language.
