A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet."
Shakespeare’s Scribe
by Gary Blackwood
F Bla
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
The Examination
by Malcolm Bosse
F Bos
Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through fifteenth century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar and Hong becomes involved with a secret society known as the White Lotus.
Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
F Cus & Pb Cus
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Atticus of Rome 30 B.C.
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
In ancient Rome, Atticus, a young slave purchased by a wealthy and powerful lawyer finds that he is completely invisible to the people from whom he must gather information in order to help foil a plot against the Emperor.
Pandora of Athens
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.
Letters from Rifka
by Karen Hesse
F Hes
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
The Green Frontier
by Wolfgang Keorner
F Keo
Before the building of the Berlin Wall, an East-German schoolboy reluctantly accompanies his family in their flight to the West.
Escape from Egypt
by Sonia Levitin
F Lev
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
The Return
by Sonia Levitin
F Lev
Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.
Adem’s Cross
by Alice Mead
F Mea
Fourteen-year-old Adem, an Albanian boy, must decide how to survive the never-ending nightmare in Serb-occupied Kosovo with or without his family.
Girl of Kosovo
by Alice Mead
F Mea
Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of the 1999 conflict in her native Kosovo, she remembers her father's admonition to not let her heart become filled with hate.
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
by Katherine Paterson
F Pat
A teen-ager comes to know himself through contacts with social ills and political unrest while searching for his father in Japan's capital, centuries ago.
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
F Par
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Under the Persimmon Tree
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
F Sta
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher, who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The Ramsay Scallop
by Frances Temple
F Tem & Pb Tem
At the turn of the fourteenth century in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain. Middle Ages.
In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverence and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
The Clock
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
Give Dad My Best
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col
During the depression a young boy tries to hold his family together until his father, an unemployed musician, finds work.
Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitacker
by Cynthia DeFelice
F Def
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
Earthquake at Dawn
by Kristiana Gregory
Pb Gre
A novelization of Edith Irvine's experiences after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Silver Days
by Sonia Levitin
F Lev
Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous Jewish family lives in a New York City tenement until Papa decides to move the family to California.
Lyddie
by Katherine Paterson
F Pat & Pb Pat
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
The Rifle
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, carried throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
The Good the Bad and the Rest of Us
by Evelyn Slaattan
F Sla
The Depression brings difficulties to Katie Donovan and her family when her father loses his job.
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy, her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
I Am Regina
by Sally Keehn
Pb Kee
In 1755, 10-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians & struggles to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up & starts to become an Indian.
Beyond the Burning Time
by Katherine Lasky
F Las
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
The Serpent Never Sleeps
by Scott O’Dell
F Ode
In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.
Tituba of Salem Village
by Ann Petry
Pb Pet
It is 1692 in Salem Village and the talk is of witches. Someone in the village has been doing the devil's work and all eyes are on Tituba.
A Break With Charity
by Ann Rinaldi
Pb Rin
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English recalls the malice and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
Pb Spe
In 1687, Kit Tyler moves from the Caribbean to Connecticut Colony. Her friendship for a strange, old woman leads to her trial for witchcraft.
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
The Year of the Hangman
by Gary L. Blackwood
F Bla
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, 15 yr old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col & Pb Col
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
War Comes to Willy Freeman
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
The Winter Hero
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col & Pb Col
Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.
The Liberty Pole
by Maynard Hatcher
Pb Hat
Luke and Rachel are building a boat together to make a life of fishing off the colonial Maine coast, but when the Revolutionary War begins Luke goes off to fight the British.
Time Enough for Drums
by Ann Rinaldi
F Rin
Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king.
The Fifth of March
by Ann Rinaldi
Pb Rin
An indentured servant in the household of John Adams, is caught up in unrest.
Freelon Starbird
by Richard Snow
F Sno
A reluctant young patriot describes his experiences in the Revolutionary Army after waking following a night of drinking to the disturbing recollection of having signed up the night before to fight the British.
Because he had been unable to fight off the gator which injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army to prove his manhood.
Tamarack Tree
by Patricia Clapp
F Cla
An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
Bull Run
by Paul Fleischman
F Fle
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Becca’s Story
by James Foeman
F Fle
A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand.
Three Against the Tide
by Ann Love
F Lov
After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, 12-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.
The Slopes of War
by Norah Perez
F Per
Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Across the Lines
by Carolyn Reeder
F Ree
Edward, son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon watch the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
Shades of Gray
by Carolyn Reeder
F Ree
The Civil War was over, but it had taken its toll on 12 year-old Will Page. An orphan he was forced to live with his Uncle, a coward who had refused to fight in the war.
Numbering All the Bones
by Ann Rinaldi
F Rin
"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure,' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for 13-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life . . . "
The Last Silk Dress
by Ann Rinaldi
F Rin
During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.
The Sacred Moon Tree
Laura Jan Shore
F Sho
Determined to see the war for herself, twelve-year-old Phoebe disguised as a boy, travels with her friend Jotham behind enemy lines to Richmond in hopes rescuing Jotham's brother from a Rebel prison.
Red Cap
by Clifton Wisler
F Wis
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
Pb S
A superb re-creating of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.
In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.
A Shooting Star
by Sheila Solomon Klass
F Kla
As one who prefers hunting over sewing, Annie Oakley breaks free from conventional behavior for girls and goes on to develop her talent as a sharpshooter and entertainer.
Beyond the Divide
by Katheryn Lasky
F Las
In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
My Travels with Cpts. Lewis and Clark by George Shannon
by Kate McMullan
F McM
A fictional journal recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Sarah Bishop
by Scott O’Dell
F Ode & Pb Ode
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
by Scott O’Dell
F Ode
A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
Tucket’s Gold
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Tells the story of one boy's search for the survivor inside himself during the Armenian Holocaust.
After the Dancing Days
by Margaret Rostkowski
F Ros
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Goodbye, Billy Radish
by Gloria Skurzynski
F Sku
In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, ten-year-old Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him.
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
For Freedom: …
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
F Bra
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
Code Talker
by Joseph Bruchac
F Bru
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Under a War Torn Sky
by Laura Elliott
F Ell & Pb Ell
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Lily’s Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
F Gif
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Willow Run
by Patricia Reilly Giff
F McM
During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber building factory, eleven-year-old Maggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all the people around her.
Soldier Boys: a Novel
by Dean Hughes
Pb Hug
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Slap Your Sides
by M.E. Kerr
F Ker
Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
Aleutian Sparrow
by Karen Hesse
F Ben
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American interment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
B For Buster
by Iain Lawrence
F Law
In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany.
After the War
by Carol Matas
F Mat
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
A Boy at War
by Harry Mazer
F Maz
While fishing off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer serving on the U.S.S. Arizona.
Good Night, Maman
by Norma Fox Mazer
F Maz
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karen Levi and her older brother find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
McKenzie’s Boots
by Michael Noonan
F Noo
To escape an unhappy situation at home, fourteen-year-old Rod McKenzie, six feet tall and more than 154 pounds, enlists in the army during World War II claiming to be nineteen.
Run, Boy, Run
by Uri Orlev
F Orl
Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi occupied Polish countryside.
The Cookcamp
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau & Pb Pau
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
The Journey Back
by Johanna Reiss
Pb Rei
After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family.
The Boys from St. Petri
by Bjarne Reuter
F Reu
In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
The Shadow Army
by Lou Rydberg
F Ryd
During World War II a youth in Crete joins the underground and becomes involved in dangerous missions against the Nazi occupation troops.
Under the Blood-Red Sun
by Graham Salisbury
F Sal
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Eyes of the Emperor
by Graham Salisbury
F Sal
Following orders from the United States Army, young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Japanese during World War II
Grace in the Wilderness
by Aranka Siegal
F Sie
Liberated from a German concentration camp at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden. Sequel to "Upon the Head of the Goat."
Blitzcat
by Robert Westall
F Wes
Follow Lord Gort, a black cat, through World War II battles from England to France.
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.
In Country
by Bobbie Ann Mason
F Mas
Sam Hughes, a bright, spunky, seventeen-year-old is trying to uncover the mysteries surrounding her father who died in the Vietnam war before she was born. She is searching for answers by looking through her father’s letters home from Vietnam.
Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
F Mye
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Come in From the Cold
by Marsha Qualey
F Qua
The Vietnam War protest movement brings together two Minnesota teenagers.
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
The Journal of Finn Reardon
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
F Bar
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899; includes historical notes.
Land of the Buffalo Bones:...
by Marion Dane Bauer
F Bau
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there.
The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy
by Joseph Bruchac
F Bru
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears.
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II
Early Sunday Morning : The Pearl Harbor Diary ...
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall:...
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
So Far from Home:...
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary...
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War Patriot
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
William writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots.
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping:...
by Barry Denenberg
F Den
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
The Journal of C.J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant
by William Durbin
F Dur
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant
by William Durbin
F Dur
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
The Journal of Sean Sullivan, a Transcontinental…
by William Durbin
F Dur
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Valley of the Moon:...
by Sherry Garland
F Gar
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died.
The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence…
by Sherry Garland
F Gar
In the diary she receives for her thirteenth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
The Diary of Libby West : the Great Railroad Race
by Kristiana Gregory
F Gre
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, 14-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary...
by Kristiana Gregory
F Gre
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York.
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary...
by Kristiana Gregory
F Gre
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
The Oregon Trail of Hattie Campbell
by Kristiana Gregory
F Gre
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Booneville, Missoura to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly:...
by Joyce Hansen
F Han
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
by Karen Hesse
F Hes
In 1860 & 1861, Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
The Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredricksberg
by Sid Hite
F Hit
In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there.
Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards…
by Katelan Janke
F Jan
A twelve-year -old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl" of the Great Depression.
Dreams in the Golden Country
by Kathryn Lasky
F Las
12 year old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant, keeps a diary account of the first 18 months of her family's life in New York city, 1903-1904.
The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
by Kathryn Lasky
F Las
A fictional journal kept of 12 year old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary...
by Kathryn Lasky
F Las
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
A Journey to the New World:...
by Kathryn Lasky
F Las
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
A Time for Courage: the Suffragette Diary...
by Kathryn Lasky
F Las
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family.
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War II Diary...
by Beth Seidel Levine
F Lev
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
The Journal of Jedediah Barstow, an Emigrant on the Oregon Trail:...
by Ellen Levine
F Lev
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers.
All the Stars in the Sky:...
by Megan McDonald
F Mcd
A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.
Color Me Dark :...
by Patricia C. McKissack
F Mck
Eleven year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
A Picture of Freedom
by Patricia C. McKissack
F Mck
Having secretly taught herself how to read and write, Clotee, a twelve-year-old Virginia slave, witnesses the horrors of slavery and becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
My Face to the Wind:...
by Jim Murphy
F Mur
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
West to a Land of Plenty:...
by Jim Murphy
F Mur
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American sister and family and other immigrant pioneers to Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
The Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier
by Jim Murphy
F Mur
A sixteen-year-old Union soldier is ordered by his commanding officer to keep a written record of "G" company during the most brutal year of the Civil War.
The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues
by Walter Dean Myers
F Mye
A teenager's 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons covers the games, the players, racism the team faces, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional, with a historical note about the Negro Leagues.
The Journal of Joshua Loper, a Black Cowboy
by Walter Dean Myers
F Mye
In 1871, Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier
by Walter Dean Myers
F Mye
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
My Secret War: The World War II Diary...
by Mary Pope Osborne
F Osb
Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary...
by Mary Pope Osborne
F Osb
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party Expedition
by Rodman Philbrick
F Phi
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47
My Heart is on the Ground:...
by Ann Rinaldi
F Rin
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim Boy
by Ann Rinaldi
F Rin
A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary...
by Ann Warren Turner
F Tur
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl …
by Ann Warren Turner
F Tur
Brings readers the deeply affecting story of a Navajo girl on the Long Walk.
Diary of Margaret Ann Brady…
by Ellen Emerson White
F Whi
In her diary, 13-year-old Margaret Ann desc. how she leaves her life in London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on Titanic, & exper. its sinking.
The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty…
by Ellen Emerson White
F Whi
An eighteen -year-old marine records his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968.
Where Have All the flowers Gone?…
by Ellen Emerson White
F Whi
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veteran's Administration hospital, and tries to make sense of the Vietnam War and tumultuous events in the United States.
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung : a Chinese Miner
by Lawrence Yep
F Yep
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
Who is Carrie?
by James Lincoln Collier
F Col
A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.
Mississippi Trial 1955
by Chris Crowe
F Cro
In Mississippi, 1955, a white 16 year old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a 14 year old African American from Chicago.
The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
F Fox
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Breaking Free
by Louann Bigge Gaeddert
F Gae
In 1800, shortly before his twelfth birthday, Richard is sent to live with his uncle on a farm in upper New York State, where he teaches a young slave to read and encourages her to dream of freedom.
Witness
by Karen Hesse
F Hes
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920's when the Ku Klux Klan was trying to infiltrate the town.
Behind the Lines
by Isabelle Holland
F Hol
During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African American make a daring escape from an angry mob.
Freedom Songs
by Yvette Moore
F Moo and Pb Moo
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.
Glory Field
by Walter Dean Myers
F Mye & Pb Mye
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
Jip: His Story
by Katherine Paterson
F Pat
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
Nightjohn
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Sarny: A Life Remembered
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau
Continues the adventures of the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks.
Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir
by Mary Stolz
F Sto
In his old age Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his escape to a new life in the North.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
F Coo & Pb Coo
In this exciting tale set during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachogook, and Chingachgook's son, Uncas, agree to guide two sisters across hostile Indian territory in search of their father, a British commander.
Legend Days
by Jamake Highwater
F Hig
Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devestates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana Aquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive disintegration of her people.
Eyes of Darkness
by Jamake Highwater
F Hig
A Santee Sioux Indian named Yesa, after being taken at age seventeen to live among white men, becomes a doctor and then returns to the reservation to live as an Indian.
The Ceremony of Innocence
by Jamake Highwater
F Hig
Alone and destitute after the death of her husband, Amana finds lasting friendship, love and disillusionment, and eventually moves to a trading post town where she strives to give her daughter and grandchildren a sense of pride in their Indian heritage.
Thunder rolling in the mountains
by Scott O'Dell
F Ode & Pb Ode
In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Percâe girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
To Spoil the Sun
by Joyce Rockwood
F Roc
Forewarned by omens, a sixteenth-century Cherokee Indian village in the southern Appalachians is struck by an "invisible fire," a smallpox epidemic brought by European explorers.
The sign of the beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
F Spe
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
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