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Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
(562 pages) Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. (N)
Allende, Isabel – Daughter of Fortune
(399 pages) The story of a young woman's quest for love and fortune during the California Gold Rush in San Francisco. (N)
Cadnum, Michael – Blood Gold
(210 pages) After an arduous journey, Will Dwinelle and his friend Ben finally reach California in 1849 intending to bring home the man who betrayed the honor of a girl back home in Philadelphia, but find themselves tempted by the riches of the Gold Rush.
Carbone, Elisa – Last Dance on Holladay Street
(196 pages) In 1878, thirteen-year-old Eva seeks her birth mother in Colorado, only to find the city and her mother are not what she imagined. (N)
Dokey, Cameron – Charlotte: Heart of Hope
(180 pages) Sent to live with her aunt in Baltimore in 1814 to escape the threat of attacks in the Indiana Territory, Charlotte finds herself surrounded by both enemies and patriots, and when she is kidnapped, she wonders whom to trust. (N)
Heath, Lorraine – Samantha and the Cowboy
(250 pages) Hoping to earn the money to rescue her family's Texas farm from ruin, Samantha hires on as a cowhand by calling herself "Sam," but her plan is put in jeopardy after Civil War veteran Matthew Hart discovers her deception. (N)
Heuston, Kimberly – The Shakeress
(207 pages) While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism. (N)
Hobbs, Will – Jason’s Gold
(221 pages) When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich. (N)
Jenkins, Beverly – Belle and the Beau
(296 pages) Sixteen-year-old escaped slave Belle Palmer finally finds freedom with the Best family in Michigan, and as she settles into her new life, she attracts the attention of the Best's promising son Daniel, who is engaged to another. (N)
Karr, Kathleen – The Boxer
(169 pages) Having learned how to box while in prison, fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter in late nineteenth-century New York City. (N)
Krisher, Trudy – Uncommon Faith
(263 pages) In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith. (N)
Lerangis, Peter – Smiler’s Bones
(147 pages) Provides the story of an Eskimo boy who, after being brought from his home in Greenland to New York City by explorer Robert Peary, was forced to deal with the death of his father, and the loss of everything familiar to him. (N)
Mazzio, Joann – Leaving Eldorado
(170 pages) In the late 1890s, after her gold-mad father abandons her in the small New Mexico Territory mining town of Eldorado, fourteen-year-old Maude struggles to survive and to hold onto her dream of becoming an artist. (N)
Richter, Conrad – The Light in the Forest
(179 pages) As part of a peace treaty between the Delaware Indians and British settlers in 1764, a young man who had been kidnapped at the age of four and raised by the Delaware is returned to the settlers, but has difficulty adjusting. (N)
Rinaldi, Ann – Second Bend in the River (279 pages) In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and develops a deep friendship with him. (N)
Rinaldi, Ann – Sarah’s Ground
(178 pages) In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes. (N)
Spooner, Michael – Last Child
(230 pages) Half white, half Native-American, Rosalie has always been torn between her two worlds. But when a newcomer brings the smallpox epidemic to her community, Rosalie suddenly must face an even harsher reality than anything she has ever faced. Set in 1837. (K)
Taschek, Karen – Horse of Seven Moons
(184 pages) Tale of a sixteen-year-old Mescalero Apache boy and a fourteen-year-old girl from Arkansas whose paths cross when they discover the same elusive wild horse. (K)
Taylor, Kim – Bowery Girl
(225 pages) Mollie Flynn, a sixteen-year-old thief, and her best friend, Annabelle, a teen prostitute, try to survive in the slums of New York in 1883. When a thieving attempt goes wrong and when Annabelle becomes pregnant, the lives of both young women change forever. (K)
Torrey, Michele – Voyage of Ice
(197 pages) In 1849, fifteen-year-old Nick and his older brother, longing to be whalers, sign on as hands on the whaling ship Sea Hawk, and find that the journey is full of hardship and unexpected dangers. (N)
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(404 pages) Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences. (N)
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(140 pages) The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th-century Mississippi River town as he plays hooky on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate's treasure, and becomes lost in a cave. (N)
Wolf, Allan – New Found Land
(500 pages) The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean. (N)
Yep, Laurence – The Traitor: Golden Mountains Chronicle, 1885
(310 pages) In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. (N)
Key
N= Synopsis from NoveList
K= Synopsis by librarian
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