Avi
CRISPIN
An orphaned boy in fourteenth century England falsely accused of theft and murder, flees his village and meets a juggler with a dangerous secret.

Avi
THE FIGHTING GROUND
Josh, a thirteen-year-old boy, goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real  war is being fought within himself.

Brenaman, Miriam
EVVY’S CIVIL WAR
Evvy, a fourteen-year-old, living in Virginia in 1860 on the verge of the Civil War is upset by restrictions society has placed on women and slaves.

Bruchac, , Joseph
THE ARROW OVER THE DOOR
Based on a real historical event, a group of Quakers and a party of Native Americans have a memorable meeting during the Revolutionary War.

Bunting, Eve
SOS TITANIC
A fifteen-year-old boy Barry O’Neill traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage  of the Titanic finds his life endangered when the ships hits an iceberg.

Choldenko, Gennifer
AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS
Moose, a twelve-year-old boy, moves to Alcatrez Island in 1935 when his father is hired as a guard has to contend with his new environment and life with his autistic sister.

Curtis, Christopher Paul
BUD, NOT BUDDY
Bud, a ten year old boy, from Flint, Michigan loses his mother during the Depression and goes in search of the man he believes to be his father—the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Curtis, Christopher Paul
THE WATSON’S GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963
The ordinary interactions and daily routes of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit grandma in Alabama in 1963.

Cushman, Karen
THE BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE
A twelve-year-old girl is upset when her mother decides to move the family from Massachusetts to a rough mining town in 1849.

Cushman, Karen
THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE
A nameless, homeless girl in Medieval England is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and in spite of the obstacles and hardships gains three things she wants most: a full stomach, a content heart, and a place in the world.

Cushman, Karen
RODZINA
A twelve-year old orphaned Polish American girl is plucked from the streets of Chicago and placed on a train to the West with the fear of a life of slavery.

Ellis, Deborah
A COMPANY OF FOOLS
Henri, a Medieval boy, living in the Abbey of St. Luc near Paris in 1348 as a choir boy during the Black Death plague finds joy when Micah arrives.

Erdrich, Louise
THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE
A seven-year old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

Giff, Patricia Reilly
A HOUSE OF TAILORS
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home, but as months pass she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.

Park, Linda Sue
A SINGLE SHARD
A thirteen-year-old, Korean orphan, named Tree-ear living under a bridge in a potters’ village longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics in Medieval Korea.

Peck, Richard
THE TEACHER’S FUNERAL: A COMEDY IN THREE PARTS
In rural Indiana in 1804, Russell’s dreams of quitting school to join a wheat thrashing crew are disrupted when his sister takes over teaching at the one-room school house.

Taylor, Mildred D.
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
A black family living in South are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don’t understand in 1930.

Van Leeuwen, Jean
BOUND FOR OREGON
Nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family leave Arkansas to go west on the Oregon Trail in 1852.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer
BAT 6: A NOVEL
In a small town in Oregon in post World War, twenty-one sixth grade girls recount the story of when one girl’s bigotry comes to the surface.

Yep, Laurence
DRAGONWINGS
In the early twentieth century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and realizes his dream of building a flying machine.

Yolen, Jane
THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC
Hannah resents the traditions of Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Dear America Collection

Denenberg, Barry
THE JOURNAL OF BEN UCHIDA, CITIZEN #13559, MIRROR LAKE INTERNMENT CAMP California, 1942

Denenberg, Barry
THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT Boston, Massachusetts, 1774

Denenberg, Barry
WHEN WILL THIS CRUEL WAR BE OVER? THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF EMMA SIMPSON
Gordonsville, Virginia 1864

Durbin, William
THE JOURNAL OF SEAN SULLIVAN, A TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WORKER
Nebraska and Points West, 1867

Garland, Sherry
A LINE IN THE SAND, THE ALAMO DIARY OF LUCINDA LAWRENCE
Gonzales, Texas, 1836

Gregory, Kristiana
ACROSS THE LONESOME PRAIRIE, THE OREGON TRAIL DIARY OF HATTIE CAMPBELL 1847

Gregory, Kristiana
THE WINTER OF RED SNOW: THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIARY OF ABIGAIL JANE STEWART
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777

Hansen, Joyce
I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY, THE DIARY OF PATSY, A FREED GIRL
Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865

 Hesse, Karen
A LIGHT IN THE STORM, THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF AMELIA MARTIN
Fenwick Island, Delaware 1861

Levine, Ellen
THE JOURNAL OF JEDEDIAH BARSTOW, AN EMMIGRANT ON THE OREGON TRAIL
Overland, 1845

Murphy, Jim
THE JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE, A CIVIL WAR UNION SOLDIER
Virginia, 1863

Myers, Walter Dean
THE JOURNAL OF JOSHUA LOPER: A BLACK COWBOY
The Chisholm Trail, 1871

 Royal Diaries

Gregory, Kristiana
CLEOPATRA, DAUGHTER OF THE NILE
EGYPT, 57 B.C.

Holman, Sheri
SONDOK, PRINCESS OF THE MOON AND STARS
KOREA, A.D. 595

Lasky, Kathryn
ELIZABETH I, RED ROSE OF THE HOUSE OF TUDOR
ENGLAND, 1544

Lasky, Kathryn
JAHANARA, PRINCESS OF PRINCESSES
INDIA, 1627

Lasky, Kathryn
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, QUEEN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
FRANCE, 1553

White, Ellen Emerson
KAIULANI: THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS
HAWAII, 1889