historical fiction

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The yellow star

the legend of King Christian X of Denmark
2000
Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.

Hooray for the Golly sisters!

1992
In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences.

Babe Ruth and the ice cream mess

2004
Presents a fictionalized, true story of baseball legend Babe Ruth, in simple text with illustrations, wherein Seven-year-old George "Babe" Ruth, steals a dollar from father's saloon to buy ice cream for his friends.

Esperanza rising

2001
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Night of the full moon

2005
When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.

Abe's fish

a boyhood tale of Abraham Lincoln
2009
Young Abe Lincoln learns the meaning of selflessness and freedom when he encounters a soldier on a country road and gives up his prized possession: a fish he caught for the family's evening meal. Includes author's note on the early life of the sixteenth president.

I survived the San Francisco earthquake, 1906

2012
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco --but early one spring morning in 1906 Leo's world is shaken, when he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground.

War horse

2007
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

Marika

2002
Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II.

The attacks of September 11, 2001

2012
Lucas has to tell his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star, that his parents do not want him playing football anymore, and he takes the train into New York City to talk to Benny, but everything changes when the Twin Towers are attacked.

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