Auch, Mary Jane – Ashes of Roses   
(250 pages) Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.  (N)

Bagdasarian, Adam - Forgotten Fire   
(273 pages) -Drawing on his own great-uncle's experiences, Bagdasarian covers the years 1915-1918 when a boy from a wealthy, well-respected family from Bitlis, Turkey, is stripped of everything simply because he is Armenian.  

Crew, Linda – Brides of Eden   
(217 pages) In this story, based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and her female friends become obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to Corvallis, Oregon in 1904, claiming to be a Christian prophet.  (N)

Donnelly, Jennifer – A Northern Light   
(389 pages) In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.  (N)

Hesse, Karen -   A Time of Angels   
(250 pages) Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family. (N)

Hoh, Diane – Titanic: The Long Night  
(373pages) First class passengers Elizabeth Farr and Max Whittaker, steerage traveler Kathleen Mahoney, and the others aboard the Titanic face a night of unexpected dangers when the ship hits an iceberg.  (N)

Ibbotson, Eva – Journey to the River Sea   
(298 pages) Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.  (N)

Ingold, Jeannette – The Big Burn   
(295 pages) Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.  (N)

Lavender, William – Aftershocks   
(344 pages) Jessie Wainwright, the daughter of a prominent San Francisco physician, intends to become a doctor herself, despite her father's disapproval. Her dream is nearly lost when a chance encounter reveals a shocking secret--and Jessie sets off in search of answers, temporarily abandoning her goals. Determined to confirm her dark suspicions, Jessie combs the streets of Chinatown. She ultimately witnesses the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and the plight of Chinese immigrants relegated to the nightmare of refugee camps in its wake.   (A)

Lisle, Janet Taylor – Black Duck   
(252 pages)  Life becomes complicated for Reuben and Jeddy when they find a body washed up on the shore, a body they suspect is tied to illegal rum-running. Before they know it, the boys are deeply immersed in a bootlegging operation, and in the Prohibition Era, messing with gangsters isn’t the wisest thing they could have done.  (K)

McKernan, Victoria – Shackleton’s Stowaway 
(317 pages) A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.  (N)

Namioka, Lensey – An Ocean Apart, A World Away  
(197 pages) Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.  (N)

Namioka, Lensey – Ties That Bind, Ties That Break   
(154 pages) Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.  (N) Set in 1911.

Peck, Richard – Amanda, Miranda  
(169 pages) In 1911 in England, eighteen-year-old Mary Cooke is hired as personal maid to the willful and arrogant Amanda Whitwell and is astonished to find that her new employer is her near-double, a coincidence that has lasting consequences for Mary, especially when she accompanies Amanda on the Titanic's fateful voyage.  (N)

Rinaldi, Ann – Brooklyn Rose   
(222 pages) On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.  (N)

Tal, Eve – Double Crossing  
(260 pages) In 1905, as life becomes increasingly difficult for Jews in Ukraine, eleven-year-old Raizel and her father flee to America in hopes of earning money to bring the rest of the family there, but her father's health and Orthodox faith become barriers.  (N)

Thesman, Jean – A Sea So Far   
(195 pages) After surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, two teenage girls, a wealthy semi-invalid and her hired companion, travel together to Ireland and discover they share much in common, from a love of romance novels to grief over the loss of their mothers.  (N)

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