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HISTORICAL
FICTION
in the Canton Public Library Children's Department
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| 1946 - PRESENT |
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| Antle, Nancy |
Lost
in the War |
| Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with
a mother whose traumatic experiences as a nurse in the Vietnam
War still haunt her. |
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| Baillie, Allan |
Little
Brother |
| In Cambodia after the Vietnam War, Vithy learns
to overcome social upheaval, a hostile jungle, and his own inability
to trust, in order to rescue his older brother. |
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| Cameron, Ann |
The
Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods |
| Living in a rural community in Wisconsin during
the 1950s, 11-year-old Amanda gradually and painfully learns
a lot about herself, her parents, and her older sister. |
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| Dewey, Jennifer |
Navajo
Summer |
| A young girl runs away from home to live with
a Navajo family in this story based on the author's childhood. |
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| Donahue, John |
Till
Tomorrow |
| In 1961, newly arrived at the United States Army
base near the World War I battlefields at Verdun, France, 12-year-old
Terrence O.B. O'Brien is torn between the popular boys on the
baseball team and a French boy they tease for being different. |
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| Godden, Rumer |
Gypsy
Girl |
| After she is orphaned in the 1970s, 7-year-old
Kizzy, who has lived as a Romany (Gypsy) all her life, must
face a small English town's intolerance and find herself a new
home and family. |
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| Hamilton, Morse |
The
Garden of Eden Motel |
| In the early 1950s, 11-year-old Dal accompanies
his stepfather, Mr. Sabatini, on a business trip to a rural
community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes
involved in scheme involving a uranium mine. |
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| Hill, Kirkpatrick |
The
Year of Miss Agnes |
| Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates
the story of school and village life among the Athabascans in
Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrives as the new teacher.
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| Holt, Kimberly |
Dancing
in Cadillac Light |
| In 1968, 11-year-old Jaynell's life in the town
of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes
to live with her family. |
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| Myers, Walter Dean |
The
Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues |
| Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working
for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players,
racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's
resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. . |
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| Robinet, Harriette |
Walking
to the Bus-Rider Blues |
| Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister,
and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their
dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus
boycott in the summer of 1956. |
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| Talbert, Marc |
The
Purple Heart |
| When his wounded father is sent home early from
Vietnam, Luke finds it difficult to adjust to the troubled,
emotionally shaken man who seems so unlike the fearless hero
of his dreams. |
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| Taylor, Theodore |
Timothy
of the Cay |
| Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked
on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man, Timothy,
12-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his
sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life
of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy. |
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