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An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793


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In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.






The Salem witch trials .


Magoon, Kekla


133.4 MAG

Turning point -- Social context -- Historical persecution of witches -- Afflictions emerge -- Naming witches -- Hangings -- Apologies, amends, reparations -- What really happened at Salem? -- What does Salem mean to us today?






The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Landau, Elaine.





Discusses the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.






Uprising

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.





In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.






Rachel


Schurfranz, Vivian .




FIC SCH

Set in New York, 1910, Rachel Rothkowski is a young Jewish girl who has voyaged with her family from Poland to America to start a new life.






The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire .


Gunderson, Jessica ; Miller, Phil ; Barnett, Charles III


974.7 GUN

Graphic novel that discusses the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.






Life during the black death

Dunn, John M.,


614.5 DUN

Discusses the conditions and events that led to the terrible plague that devastated fourteenth-century Europe, as well as its impact on those who survived.






At the sign of the Sugared Plum

Hooper, Mary,


FIC HOO

Excited with coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until a number of people succumb to the disease and she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no escape.






Life of an American soldier (During the Korean War)

Yancey, Diane.


951.904 KOR

Discusses the lives of American soldiers during the Korean Conflict, the kind of war they fought, and the distress caused by returning home to find that their efforts went virtually unnoticed.






M. A. S. H

Hooker, Richard

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