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American Revolution

Avi
Clapp, Patricia
Collier, James and Christopher
Collier, James and Christopher
Duey, Kathleen
Fast, Howard
Felder, Deborah
Forbes, Esther
Fritiz, Jean

O'Dell, Scott
Reit, Seymour
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann

The Fighting Ground
I'm Deborah Sampson
The Arabus Family Saga 
My Brother Sam is Dead
Mary Alice Peale (American Diaries)
April Morning
Ride of Courage
Johnny Tremain
Early Thunder
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
Sarah Bishop
Guns for General Washington
The Fifth of March
Finishing Becca
The Secret of Sarah Revere
A Ride into Morning (Tempe Wick

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
New Jersey
Sharon, MA
Connecticut and New York
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Lexington and Concord
Virginia
Boston
Salem, MA
New York
New York
Boston and Ticonderoga
Boston and Braintree
Philadelphia
Boston
New Jersey
Boston

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Civil War

 

Before the War

 
G. Clifton Wisler
Gary Paulsen
Kathryn Lasky
Patricia Hermes
Lois Ruby
Patricia Beatty
Ann Rinaldi
Douglas Rees
Caleb's Choice
Nightjon
True North
On Winter's Wind
Steal Away Home
Jayhawker
Mine Eyes Have Seen
Lightning Time
Texas
Waller Plantation
Boston / Virginia
New Bedford, MA
Kansas
Kansas
Harper's Ferry, VA
Harper's Ferry, VA
 

On the Battlefield

 
Marty Crisp
Sara Harrell Banks
Gary Paulsen
Stephen Crane
Joyce Hanson
Cynthia Bass
Elaine Marie Alphin
Patricia Beatty
James and Christopher Collier
Nancy Johnson
Craig Crist-Evans
Ann Rinaldi
Private Captain
Abraham's Battle
Soldier's Heart
Red Badge of Courage
Which Way Freedom
Sherman's March
Ghost Cadet
Charlie Skedaddle
With Every Drop of Blood
My Brother's Keeper
Moon Over Tennessee
Girl in Blue
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Minnesota
Washington
Tennessee
Georgia
New Market, VA
New York and Blue Ridge 
Shenandoah, VA
New York
Virginia
Manassas/Washington
 

At Home

 
Ann Rinaldi
Irene Hunt
James Foreman
Carolyn Reeder
In My Father's House
Across Five Aprils
Becca's Story
Across the Lines
Manassas
Illinois
Illinois
Petersberg, VA
 

In Prison

 
John Donahue
G. Clifton Wisler
An Island Far From Home
Red Cap
George's Island, MA
Camp Sumter
 

After the War

 
Sandra Forrester My Home is Over Jordan North carolina

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Mystery!

Crossman, David
Eisenberg, Lisa
Graham, Harriet
Hahn, Mary Downing
Hall, Lynn
Hall, Lynn
Hall, Lynn
Hamilton, Virginia
Haynes, Betsy
Hoeye, Michael
Hoeye, Michael
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
Kidd, Ronald
Nixon, Joan Lowry

Nixon, Joan Lowry
Pullman, Philip
Pullman, Philip
Pullman, Philip
Raskin, Ellen
Roberts, Willo Davis
Roberts, Willo Davis
Roberts, Willo Davis
Taylor, Theodore
Van Draanan, Wendelin
Vande Velde, Vivian
Voigt, Cynthia
Yep, Laurence
Secret of the Missing Grave
Mystery at Snowshoe Mountain Lodge
The Chinese Puzzle
Dead Man in Indian Creek
A Killing Freeze
Murder at the Spaniel Show
Murder in a Pig's Eye
The House of Dies Drear
Deadly Deception
Time Stops for No Mouse
The Sands of Time
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Japan)
The Demon in the Tea House 
Second Fiddle: A Sizzle & Splat Mystery
The Name of the Game Was Murder
The Weekend Was Murder
The Ruby in the Smoke (Victorian London trilogy)
Shadow in the North
Tiger in the Well
The Westing Game
The View From the Cherry Tree
Twisted Summer
The Kidnappers
Sniper
Sammy Keyes (All Titles)
Never Trust a Dead Man (Middle Ages)
The Vandemark Mummy
The Case of the Firecrackers

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  Multicultural fiction

Abelove, Joan
Bosse, Malcolm
Berry, James
Carmi, Daniella
Choi, Sook Nyui
Cisneros, Sandra
Ellis, Deborah
Erdrich, Louise
Farmer, Nancy
Fleischman, Paul
Godden, Rumor
Gorden, Sheila
Kim, Helen
Kurtz, Jane
Naidoo,  Beverly
Namioka, Lensey
Nye, Naomi Shahib
Parks, Linda Sue
Parks, Linda Sue
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Temple, Frances
Watkins, Yoko
Whelan, Gloria
Whelan, Gloria
Wilson, Diane
Yep, Laurence
Go and Come Back (Peruvian Village)
The Examination (16th century China)
Ajeemah and His Son ( Africans captured for slaves))
Samir and Yonatan (Arab and Israeli friends)
The Year of the Impossible Goodbyes (Korea WWII)
The House on Mango Street (Urban Hispanic-Americans)
The Breadwinner (Taliban girl)
The Birchbark House (Ojibwa Indians)
A Girl Named Disaster (Zimbabwe)
Seedfolks (urban life of immigrants)
Premlata and the Festival of Lights
Waiting for the Rain (South Africa)
Long Season of Rain (Korean family life)
The Storyteller's Beads (Ethiopia)
Journey to Jo'burg (South Africa)
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break (China 1911 and later)
Habibi (Jerusalem)
A Single Shard (12th century Korea)
When My Name Was Keoko (Korea WWII)
Esperanza Rising ( Mexican immigrants in the Depression Era)
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind (Pakistan)
Haveli (sequel to Shabanu)
Under the Persimmon Tree
Tonight by Sea (Haitian refugees)
So Far From the Bamboo Grove (Korea WWII)
Homeless Bird (India)
Angel on the Square (Russia)
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade (13th century China)
Dragon's Gate

  Multicultural Nonfiction

Aldana, Patricia, ed.
Carlson, Lori, ed
Carlson, Lori, ed.
Evetts-Stecker, Josephine, ret
Hamanaker, Sheila
Heaney, Marie
Jiang, Ji-Li
Mazer, Anne, ed.
Martin, Rafe
Spivak, Dawnine
Zeitlin, Steve
Jade and Iron: Latin American Tales from Two Cultures
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up
American Eyes: New Asian American Short Stories for Young Adults
Mother and Daughter Tales
In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Treasures of Japan
The Names Upon the Harp (Irish myths and legends)
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
America Street:  A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
Mysterious Tales of Japan
Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho (Japanese poet)
The Four Corners of the Sky (Creation stories)

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                                                                                        Classics

Alexander, Lloyd
Alcott, Louisa May
Armstrong, William
Austin, Jane
Bagnold, Enid
Bronte, Cahrlotte
Burnettt, Francis
Carroll, Lewis
Cather, Will

Forester, C.S.
Gipson, Fred
Golding. Ian
Grahame, Kenneth
Henry, Marguerite
Irving, Washington
Kipling, Rudyard

Lee, Harper
Lewis, C.S.
London, Jack

Morey, Walt
Montgomery, Lucy
Orwell, George
Rawlings, Marjorie
Rawls, Wilson
Richter, Conrad
Smith, Betty
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tarkington, Booth
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

Verne, Jules

White, E.B.
Widler, Laura Ingalls
Wyss, Johann

The Chronicles of Prydain
Little Women (and other titles
Sounder
Pride and Prejudice
National Velvet
Jane Eyre
The Secret Garden
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
My Antonia
O, Pioneers
The Hornblower Saga (several titles)
Old Yeller
Lord of the Flies
Wind in the Willows
King of the Wind (and other Chincoteaque titles)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Captains Courageous
Just So Stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Chronicles of Narnia
White Fang
Call of the Wild
Gentle Ben
Anne of Green Galbles
1984
The Yearling
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Light in the Forest
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Treasure Island
Penrod
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Charlotte's Webb
The Little House books
Swiss Family Robinson

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Science Fiction

Classics

Frankenstein
The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Mary Shelley
H.G.Wells
H.G.Wells

Time and Space

The Green Futures of Tycho
The Time Bike
An Acceptable Time
A Wrinkle in Time (et al)
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
The Boxes
Marco' Millions
William Sleator
Jane Langton
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
William Sleator
William Sleator
William Sleator

Other Worlds

The Giver
Gathreing Blue
The Transall Saga
Space Demons
The Beasties
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Gary Paulsen
Gillian Rubenstein
William Sleator

After the Disaster

The Dying Sun
River Rats
Z for Zachariah
Children of the Dust
Gary Blackwood
Caroline Stevermer
Robert O'Brien
Louise Lawrence

Travel in Space

Alien Secrets
Dream-Weaver
Space traders Unlimited
Annette Curtis Klaus
Louise Lawrence
Julia Riding

Invasion!

The Night the Heads Came
When the Tripods Came
The Dark Side of  Nowhere
Galax-Arena
Interstellar Pig
Parasite Pig
William Sleator
John Christopher
New Shusterman
Gillian Rubinstein
William Sleator
William Sleator

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