HISTORICAL
FICTION
in the Canton Public Library Children's
Department |
| 1866 - 1913
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| Antle, Nancy |
Beautiful
Land: A Story of the Oklahoma Land Rush |
| After a two-year wait during which her mother
died, 12-year-old Annie Mae and her family join thousands of
hopeful settlers as they race to claim land in the newly opened
Oklahoma Territory. |
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| Arrington, Frances |
Bluestem |
| With their father away and their mother traumatized
by some unknown event, 11-year-old Polly and her younger sister
are left to take care of themselves and their prairie homestead.
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| Armstrong, Jennifer |
Dear
Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt: Letters from a Young Coal
Miner |
| Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant
working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a
correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the
presidency on September 14, 1901. |
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| Beatty, Patricia |
How
Many Miles to Sundown |
| A 13-year-old girl, her younger brother, and her
pet steer join a 15-year-old searching for his father in a journey
through Texas and the New Mexico and Arizona Territories. |
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| Beatty, Patricia |
Melinda
Takes a Hand |
| In 1893, 13-year-old Melinda, stranded in a Colorado
town, becomes involved in the lives of the townspeople. |
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| Beatty, Patricia |
The
Nickel-Plated Beauty |
| In 1886 in the Washington territory, Hester and
her brothers and sisters need to find ways to raise $27 to buy
a new stove when their old stove rusts away. |
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| Calvert, Patricia |
The
Snowbird |
| In 1883, an orphaned 14-year-old and her brother
move to the Dakota Territory to live with an uncle and his wife
who believes in the mysterious Snowbirds. |
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| Carbone, Elisa |
Storm
Warriors |
| In 1895, after his mother's death, 12-year-old
Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off
the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black
crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's
objections. |
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| DuBois, William Pene |
The
Twenty-One Balloons |
| The story of the incredible adventures of Professor
William Waterman Sherman, who in 1883 sets off in a balloon
across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa,
and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. |
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| Garfield, Leon |
Young
Nick and Jubilee |
| The lives of two orphaned London children are
changed forever when they encounter a pickpocket and a student
from a charity school. |
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| Head, Judith |
Culebra
Cut |
| The son of a doctor sent to Panama in 1911 learns
about building the canal and life. |
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| Hill, Donna |
Shipwreck
Season |
| In 1880, forced to work with his uncle at a lifesaving
station on Cape Cod, 16-year-old Daniel finds himself maturing
as he encounters unexpected comradeship, challenges, and danger.
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| Hill, Kirkpatrick |
Minuk:
Ashes in the Doorway |
| Twelve-year-old Minuk's traditional Eskimo way
of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian
missionaries. |
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| Holm, Jennifer |
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.
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| Hurmence, Belinda |
Dixie
in the Big Pasture |
| In 1908, 13-year-old Dixie, newly moved from Tennessee
to the Oklahoma Territory, has a conflict with a Kiowa Indian
boy over a horse. |
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| Irwin, Hadley |
Jim
Dandy |
| When Caleb's horse, Dandy, is sold to the cavalry,
he follows and becomes involved in General Custer's campaign
against the Cheyenne Indians. |
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| Keith, Harold |
The
Obstinate Land |
| In 1893, a family seeking land in Oklahoma encounters
drought, dust storms, bandits, hostile ranchers, and finally
a blizzard that forces a 14-year-old boy to assume responsibility
for the family. |
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| Kudlinski, Kathleen |
Earthquake!:
A Story of Old San Francisco |
| Ten-year-old Phillip fights to save his horses
during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. |
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| Lasky, Kathryn |
The
Night Journey |
| Rachel's great-grandmother tells her how, as a
9-year-old, she planned her family's escape from Czarist Russia.
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| Lenski, Lois |
Strawberry
Girl |
| Ten-year-old Birdie lives on a Florida farm growing
strawberries and dreaming of getting an education. |
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| Loveday, John |
Goodbye,
Buffalo Sky |
| Cappy, who lives on the American frontier in the
1870s, must fight for the people he loves, including a Native
American woman from the Mandan tribe. |
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| Lowell, Susan |
I
Am Lavina Cumming |
| Lavina, a 10-year-old from the Arizona Territory,
is sent to California to live with her aunt and must learn to
deal with homesickness, an awful cousin, the automobile, and
the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. |
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| McKissack, Pat |
Run
Away Home |
| In 1886 in Alabama, an 11-year-old African-American
girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache
boy. |
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| Peck, Richard |
Fair
Weather |
| In 1893, 13-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 encounters with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns
out to be a life-changing experience for everyone. |
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| Pellowski, Anne |
First
Farm in the Valley: Anna's Story |
| In 1876, a Wisconsin farm girl, the first of her
family born in America, dreams of visiting her parents' home
in Poland. |
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| Pellowski, Anne |
Winding
Valley Farm: Annie's Story |
| Annie is disappointed when her parents consider
giving up their farm to move into town in the early 1900'\s.
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| Sachs, Marilyn |
Call
Me Ruth |
| In 1908, an immigrant's daughter has a conflict
between her vision of becoming an American and her mother's.
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| Sawyer, Ruth |
Roller
Skates |
| Lucinda explores New York City in the 1890s when
her parents go to Europe and she goes to live with Miss Peters,
a teacher. |
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| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
Gib
and the Gray Ghost |
| In 1909, after spending several months back at
the Lovell House, Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, 11-year-old
Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural
way with horses helps to make him feel at home. |
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| Taylor, Sydney |
All-of-a-Kind
Family |
| Five sisters and their parents live in a small
apartment on New York's Lower East Side during the early 1900s.
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| Taylor, Sydney |
All-of-a-Kind
Family Downtown |
| The five sisters now have a brother in this continuing
story of a New York family in the early 1900s. |
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| Taylor, Sydney |
More
All-of-a-Kind Family |
| The five sisters and their little brother share
good and bad times in New York City in 1912. (See the 1914-1937
list for more books in this series.) |
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| Taylor, Theodore |
Teetoncey |
| Eleven-year-old Ben rescues a young girl from
a shipwreck on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and tries to
solve the mystery of why she can't speak. |
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| Taylor, Theodore |
Teetoncey
and Ben O'Neal(sequel to Teetoncey |
| After a shipwreck victim recovers from her injuries,
she reveals that chests of silver were lost when the ship sank.
Ben tries to recover them. |
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| Wallace, Barbara |
Sparrows
in the Scullery |
| Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home
where kidnappers have left him, 11-year-old Colley, an orphan,
finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship. |
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| Wallace, Bill |
Eye
of the Great Bear |
| The bullies called him coward. Even his brothers
thought 11-year-old Bailey Trumbull was scared of his own shadow.
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| Whelan, Gloria |
Angel
on the Square |
| In 1913 Russia, 12-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates
leaving her St. Petersburg home 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. |
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| White, Ellen |
Kaiulani:
The People's Princess |
| Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn
from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even
as Hawaii's monarchy and her throne are being undermined by
American businessmen. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little
House in the Big Woods |
| Living in a log house in Wisconsin in 1870, the
Ingalls family makes their own cheese and maple sugar. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little
House on the Prairie |
| The Ingalls family moves from Wisconsin to the
Kansas prairie, where they encounter Indians and fight a prairie
fire. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Farmer
Boy |
| In the 1870s, Almanzo Wilder lives on a farm in
New York State raising calves, shearing sheep, and cutting ice.
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
On
the Banks of Plum Creek |
| The Ingalls family moves from Kansas to Minnesota,
where they first build a sod house and encounter wolves, grasshoppers,
and a blizzard. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
By
the Shores of Silver Lake |
| The Ingalls family joins Pa in the Dakota Territory
to become the first settlers in a new town. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
The
Long Winter |
| A blizzard in October forces the Ingalls family
to leave their shanty on the prairie and move into town. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little
Town on the Prairie |
| In 1882, 16-year-old Laura earns a teaching certificate.
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
These
Happy Golden Years |
| Sixteen-year-old Laura becomes a teacher to pay
for Mary's college education and, at the end of the school term,
marries Almanzo Wilder. |
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| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
The
First Four Years |
| Laura and Almanzo Wilder spend the first four
years of their marriage trying to succeed on their South Dakota
homestead. |
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| Williams, Barbara |
Making
Waves |
| Having survived the sinking of the Titantic in
1912, 12-year-old Emily lives in Baltimore where she attends
school but also encounters child labor, sweatshops, and the
struggle of labor unions. |
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| Williams, Barbara |
Titanic
Crossing |
| Thirteen-year-old Albert becomes responsible for
saving himself and his spoiled little sister when the ship hits
an iceberg. |
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| Wyman, Andrea |
Red
Sky at Morning |
| Callie is forced to grow up quickly after her
father leaves for Oregon, her mother dies, her sister must leave
to find work, and she is left to run the farm in Indiana with
only her ill grandfather. |
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| Yep, Laurence |
Dragonwings |
| Moon Shadow comes from China to live with his
father in San Francisco in 1903 and becomes part of his father's
dream to build an airplane. |
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| Yep, Laurence |
The
Serpent's Children |
In 19th-century China, Cassia attempts to protect
her family from bandits and famine and to resolve a conflict
between her father and brother.
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