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A Million Shades of Gray

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A Million Shades of Gray
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You are about to enter the world of South Vietnam just as the American War is ending. Y'Tin's father has helped the Americans on several missions and now...
 
 
A Time of Miracles

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A Time of Miracles
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Koumail, accompanied by a woman named Gloria, is fleeing across the Caucasus heading to France. She has told Koumail she rescued him from a train wreck. She came...
 
 
Alligator Bayou

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Alligator Bayou
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Tallulah, Louisiana in 1899 was a time of racial strife. Black and white where segregated and the Sicilians belonged to neither group. Brought to Louisiana to work in the...
 
 
Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

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Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Fiction/Non-Fiction
It's 1849 and Lucas Whitaker is an orphan. His whole family has died of consumption as have many, many people in his community. He becomes apprenticed...
 
 
April Morning

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April Morning
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' "Lay down your arms, you lousy bastards! Disperse, do you hear me! ...Get off the King's Green!" 'It's Lexington, Massachusetts, April, 1775. Anxious, almost sixteen-year-old...
 
 
Ashes

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Ashes
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"Where they burn books, they will end by burning human beings." 19th century German writer, Heinrich HeineThe above quote at the beginning of the book gives the reader an...
 
 
Black Radishes

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Black Radishes
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It's 1940 in Paris and Gustave, age 11, is competing to win the prize in the scavenger hunt against the other teams in his Scout troop. It's boyish vying...
 
 
Breaking Stalin's Nose

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Breaking Stalin's Nose
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Tomorrow! Finally, Sasha will become a Young Pioneer and help Comrade Stalin bring the prosperity of communism to the USSR. His father, an officer in the Soviet State Police,...
 
 
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

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Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
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When fifteen year old Bill Cody sees the sign that the Pony Express is hiring, he tries to talk his way into the job. He can ride. ...
 
 
Day of Tears

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Day of Tears
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In 1859 in Savannah, Georgia, the largest slave auction in American history took place. This is the story of fictionalized characters who could have been at the auction...
 
 
Death on the River

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Death on the River
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Before reading this YA book, the only historical novel I could recall that was about the Confederacy's notorious prisoner of war camp, Andersonville, was MacKinlay Kantor's 1955 Pulitzer Prize...
 
 
Don't Forget Winona

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Don't Forget Winona
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In the 1930's Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl and struggling families had to pick up all their worldly possessions and strike out to begin their lives again. Told...
 
 
Dust For Dinner

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Dust for Dinner
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When the dust storms roar through Jake and Maggy's farm again and again, the crops stop growing and the family has to sell all their possessions and head west...
 
 
Eyewitness Reader, Level 4: Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles

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Eyewitness Reader, Level 4: Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles
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The wonderful Eyewitness readers series continues. These are great books for independent readers who prefer to learn information from their books and aren't really interested in a storyline. ...
 
 
Fallen Angels

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Fallen Angels
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This is a powerful story of black soldiers serving in Vietnam. What circumstances led them to choose to fight in this war? What have they left behind, and what...
 
 
Forge

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Forge
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Taking his future into his own hands, Curzon has escaped from the thieving wagon driver who employed him and has made off with silver spoons, shoe buckles and Isabel's...
 
 
Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown

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Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown
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Slave Henry married slave Nancy and they had several children. One day while Henry was at work his master sold Nancy and the children. Henry was powerless to save...
 
 
From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story

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From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story
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Opening with a watercolor map of the slave states and the free states, this story begins with Johnny on the plantation where he works as a slave carrying water...
 
 
George, The Drummer Boy

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George, The Drummer Boy
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George is a drummer boy for the king's soldiers in Boston just as the American Revolution is beginning. He wants to be friends with the people in Boston, but...
 
 
Hittite

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The Hittite
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As a soldier, Lukka has seen how much civilians suffer when their rulers lust for power and land. But he thought his family was safe in the mighty Hittite...
 
 
 
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