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An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
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Murphy, Jim .
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614.5 MUR
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It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our nation's birth while drawing thought-provoking parallels to modern-day epidemics.
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Fever, 1793
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Anderson, Laurie Halse.
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FIC AND
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In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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Vietnam
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Nickelson, Harry.
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959.704 NIC
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An account of the Vietnamese Conflict and its aftermath, with information on its origins and on how the war affected American foreign policy and attitudes even today.
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Fallen Angels
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Myers, Walter Dean
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FIC MYE
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Richie Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, and Peewee are all in Vietnam. They came there for different reasons, but now they share a single dream - getting out alive.
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10,000 days of thunder : a history of the Vietnam War
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Caputo, Philip .
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959.704 CAP
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Presents a collection of illustrated photographs and maps depicting the war in Vietnam from its beginning under French control to the fall of Saigon in 1975, and contains accounts from soldiers and civilians, profiles of those involved, the role of women on the battlefield, and more.
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The road home
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White, Ellen Emerson
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FIC WHI
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Summary: Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States.
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Free radical
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Murphy, Claire Rudolf .
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FIC MUR
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Summary: In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little League baseball season, fifteen-year-old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.
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The Kent State shootings .
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Rosinsky, Natalie M. (Natalie Myra)
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378.771 ROS
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On a beautiful spring day in 1970, the Vietnam War came to Ohio. In less than 15 seconds, rifles fired by 28 Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and injured nine others. The shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, were sparked by protests against the Vietnam War. And like the war itself, the shootings remain a sources of bitter arguments and strong emotions.
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We rode the orphan trains
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Warren, Andrea
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362.73 WAR
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Warren interviews eight orphan train riders concerning their childhood experiences during "the largest children's migration in history" between 1854 and 1929 as part of a "placing out" program run by the Children's Aid Society of New York City. The stories reflect the diversity of the train itself, from Nettie, who discusses how she and her identical twin, Nellie, escaped their first sadistic adoptive mother to find a loving home with an older couple, to Art Smith, whose daydreams of an actress mother were shattered when he discovered he was a baby "left in a basket in Gimbel's Department Store." Black-and-white photographs effectively highlight the stories.
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A family apart
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Nixon, Joan Lowery
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FIC NIX
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Summary: When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860
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The Orphan Trains
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Flanagan, Alice K
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362.73 FLA
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Tells the story of how homeless children during the late 1800s and early 1900s were taken to new homes on trains which were known as orphan trains.
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Rodzina
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Cushman, Karen
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FIC CUS
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A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and to the hazards of a new life. In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn't have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn't believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She's sure they will become slaves to strangers. Anyway, who would ever adopt a large, tough, stubborn girl of Polish origin? As the train heads west, all Rodzina has is a small suitcase and her family memories from the past. Will Rodzina ever step off the train to find the family that deep in her heart she's searching for?
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Across America on an emigrant train
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Murphy, Jim,
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973.83 MUR
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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. Includes archival photographs.
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West to a land of plenty : the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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Murphy, Jim .
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FIC MUR
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While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
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Letters from Rifka
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Hesse, Karen
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FIC HES
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Refused passage in 1919 because she has ringworm, a young Jewish girl from Russia battles supercilious officials and yards of red tape before she is finally reunited with her family in America. Historical fiction with a memorable heroine, a vivid sense of place, and a happily-ever-after ending.
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Life on Ellis Island
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Rebman, Renee C
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325.73 REB
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Discusses life on Ellis Island, including detainment and deportation of immigrants, daily activities, the development of the immigration station, its role in the formation of the great melting pot of America, and the later years.
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Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell .
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941.5081 BAR
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Through the voices of the Irish people, Bartoletti tells the history of the Great Irish Famine of the late 1840s. Eyewitness accounts and memories combine with devastating facts: one million died from starvation and disease; two million emigrated; the famine could have been avoided; the legacy was a bitter resentment against the English, who owned most of Ireland.
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Beyond the western sea : book one : the escape from home
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Avi
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FIC AVI
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Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
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So Far from Home/ The Diary of Mary Driscoll and Irish Mill Girl-Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 Dear America
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Denenberg, Barry
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FIC DEN
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This riveting diary takes a sharp look at the deteriorating conditions at the Lowell mills as experienced by a 13-year-old Irish immigrant girl.
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Irish Americans
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De Capua, Sarah .
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305.8 CAP
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Provides information on the background, heritage, and traditions of Irish Americans.
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Matilda Bone
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Cushman, Karen .
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| FIC CUS | Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. | -
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Days of knights and castles
| Miquel, Pierre |  | 940.1 MIQ | A pictorial history of the daily life and notable events of the Middle Ages, from 1066 through 1485. | -
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Growing up in the Middle Ages
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| by Davies, Penelope | 
| 940.1 DAV | Tells of life growing up in the middle ages. | -
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The midwife's apprentice
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Cushman, Karen
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| FIC CUS | In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. | -
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Life during the Middle Ages
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Rice, Earle.
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Catherine, called Birdy
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Cushman, Karen
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The California Gold Rush in American History
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Altman, Linda Jacobs .
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The ballad of Lucy Whipple
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Cushman, Karen .
|  | FIC CUS | In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home." | -
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Finishing Becca : a story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
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Rinaldi, Ann .
|  | FIC RIN | Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War. | -
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The real Benedict Arnold
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Murphy, Jim .
|  | BIO ARNOLD | "Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reverberate through American history." | -
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Rockbuster .
| Skurzynski, Gloria |  | FIC SKU | In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old Utah coal miner Tommy Quinlan begins to accept his past and make decisions about his future. | -
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Sweat and blood : a history of U.S. labor unions
| Skurzynski, Gloria . |  | Interlibrary loan | The history of labor unions is one filled with larger-than-life characters fighting to correct the wrongs of the few upon the many and with gripping humanistic dramas of class conflict brought on by the imbalance of capital. This entry in the reliable People’s History series begins with the roots of unionization in colonial America, cruises through the frenzy of industrialization in the twentieth century, and ends in the present day, where unions play less of a role but still provide “the single best ticket into the middle class.” | -
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By the great horn spoon!
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| by Fleischman, Sid ; Von Schmidt, Eric |  | FIC FLE | A gentleman's gentleman from Boston flees to the wilds of California during the Gold Rush and becomes a hero. | -
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