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Jubilee

by Walker, Margaret .












The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.






Forever free; the story of the Emancipation Procla by Sterling, Dorothy .

















Second daughter : the story of a slave girl

by Walter, Mildred Pitts .












In late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Aissa, the fictional younger sister of Elizabeth Freeman, relates how her sister gains freedom for herself and her family by bringing a suit against their owner in court.






Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

by McKissack, Pat ; McKissack, Fredrick ; Thompson, John .




















Slaves

by Head, Tom .




















To be a slave

by Lester, Julius .








































Texas rain

by Thomas, Jodi .












In 1854 Rainey Adams meets Texas Ranger Travis McMurray, she steals a kiss-and then his horse. Now Travis is determined to track down this intriguing woman and bring her back to the Whispering Mountain Ranch as his bride. But this renegade may be too much for even the toughest Ranger to handle.








The gold rush

by Ketchum, Liza .












This companion volume to the PBS television documentary The West, illustrates the event which drew thousands of people to California and its effect on the gold seekers, the Spanish settlers, and the native Indian tribes who lived there.






Emil and Karl


by Glatstein, Jacob ; Shandler, Jeffrey .















The righteous : the unsung heroes of the Holocaust

by Gilbert, Martin .









940.5318 GIL










The final journey

by Pausewang, Gudrun .









FIC PAU









Voices of the Holocaust







940.5318 MCG










We remember the Holocaust

by Adler, David A .





940.5318 ADL









Greater than angels

Matas, Carol .














Milkweed

by Spinelli, Jerry .



















My canary yellow star

by Wiseman, Eva .




















Tell them we remember : the story of the Holocaust

by Bachrach, Susan D . -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum








940.53 BAC









Schindler's list

by Keneally, Thomas .









FIC KEN









Rescue : the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust

by Meltzer, Milton .




















The Holocaust overview

by Byers, Ann .









940.5318 BYE









The final solution

by Rice, Earle .








940.53 RIC









The cage

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Sender, Ruth Minsky














Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow


Bartoletti, Susan Campbell .



943.086 BAR









The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable


Boyne, John .




FIC BOY









The book thief


Zusak, Markus .



FIC ZUS

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.






Days of knights and castles

by Miquel, Pierre .









940.1 MIQ

A pictorial history of the daily life and notable events of the Middle Ages, from 1066 through 1485.






V is for victory : America remembers World War II


Krull, Kathleen .




940.53 KRU









Beachmont letters

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Twomey, Cathleen



FIC TWO

In a story set in World War II, a writing assignment connects seventeen-year-old Eleanor, a girl badly burned in a fire that took the life of her father, with a soldier who becomes the only person she trusts, who helps her see beyond her scars.






Then came heaven


Spencer, LaVyrle .




FIC SPE

Set in 1950, the tale brings together a nun and a widower. St. Joseph's Church janitor Eddie Olczak and his saintly wife, Krystyna, are pillars of Browerville's Polish community; their two daughters are the favorite pupils of Sister Regina, one of the Benedictine nuns who teach at St. Joseph's school. But then Krystyna is killed when a train hits her car at a crossing. As Eddie, with the help of his large family, manages to put his life back together.






The thought of high windows


Kositsky, Lynne .




FIC KOS

Esther, a Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, is able to deal with the horrors of the war as well as the normal agonies of teenage life with thoughts of flying out of ever-higher windows.






The red necklace : a story of the French Revolution


Gardner, Sally .




FIC GAR

: At the start of the French Revolution, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a young Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy in the villainous Count Kalliovski.






You wouldn't want to be an aristocrat in the French Revolution! : a horrible time in Paris you'd rather avoid


Pipe, Jim ; Antram, David .




944.04 PIP

Read about the fear and bloodshed of the French Revolution as many of the nobility were killed.






Last silk dress, the


Rinaldi, Ann .



FIC RIN

During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.






Women Civil War spies of the Confederacy


Phillips, Larissa .




973.7 PHI

Details the lives of six women who fought to preserve the Confederacy and the Southern way of life by serving as spies during the Civil War.






In my father's house


Rinaldi, Ann .




FIC RIN

For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.






America in the Time of Abraham Lincoln

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Isaacs, Sally



973.7 ISA

America in the time of Abraham Lincoln, the story of our nation coast to coast






No shame, no fear


Turnbull, Ann



FIC TUR

In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.






The seventeenth century


Taylor, Laurence ; McBride, Angus ; Hook, Richard .




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Deadly


Chibbaro, Julie ; Superville Sovak, Jean-Marc .




FIC CHI

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.






Rats, lice and history


Zinsser, Hans .




616.9 ZIN

Reprint of a 1935 text, chronicling the impact of epidemics on society, tracking the origins and growth of typhus, and discussing the nature of infectious diseases, their effect on the ancient world, and their influence on political and military history.






Operation Red Jericho


Mowll, Joshua .


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