historical fiction

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Alaska

1989

May B.

2012
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

White lilacs

2007
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.

Johnny Tremain

2004
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle

2008
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

My brother Sam is dead

2008
Young Tim Meeker learns some bitter life lessons when his sixteen-year-old brother goes off to fight with the Patriots in the Revolutionary War, while he remains home with his reluctantly Loyalist family in the Tory town of Redding Ridge, Connecticut.

Lyddie

2009
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Slaughterhouse-five or the Children's crusade

a duty dance with death
2003
Billy Pilgrim is a loner cast adrift in time and space, a victim of fate, who is shuttled back and forth between the starkly contrasting worlds of a zoo on another planet, where he is a specimen, and nightmarish Nazi Germany during the fire-bombing of Dresden.

The fox woman

2000
Yoshifuji, exiled from the Japanese court, returns to his estate and becomes fascinated with foxes which his wife knows are harbingers of danger.

Samurai legend

2003
A graphic novel featuring historic samurai Yagyu Jubei, in which Jubei must protect Japan from falling into civil war by finding a stolen book he swore to protect years ago.

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