historical fiction

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historical fiction

The greatest goal

2001
Young Paul can hardly contain his excitement as he waits for his own hockey season to start and watches the exciting hockey series between Canada and the Soviet Union in 1972.

Graveyard girl

2001
During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.

Gold rush winter

2002
Klondy's life changes dramatically when she and her mother move from South Dakota to Alaska in the late 1800s to live with Klondy's father, a gold miner who left when she was just a baby.

Gold Rush days

2001
A doll named Hitty goes on an adventure with her owner, Annie, to California, where Annie tries to help her father find gold.

Fire!

the beginnings of the labor movement
1997
In 1911 Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions in factories when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, where her older sister Freyda is employed.

Faraway summer

2000
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.

Ellen's story

2000
The story of Ellen who lives on an Illinois farm in 1830 and who gets a new stepmother and brother.

Danger in disguise

2000
Jamie and his father have been on the run for as long as Jamie can remember, and in a dramatic series of events, he learns the real reason why.

Cora Frear

a true story
2002
While making house calls with her frontier-doctor father, Cora Frear finds herself in a dangerous situation when she and her father are surrounded by a prairie fire raging out of control.

Comanche peace pipe

2001
Eleven-year-olds Fish Rawlings, heading across Texas on a wagon train, and Hunting Bear, a Comanche riding his first war trail, meet and become friends in spite of having been taught to hate each other, and soon discover they are the only ones who can stop the hostilities between their people.

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