Historical - United States - 19th Century
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Blizzard: Colorado, 1886
$7.99 Add to cartNow with a bold new look!
Two cousins battle the elements during the 1886 blizzard in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in this gripping entry in the historical fiction middle grade Disaster series. Hadyn- Series: Survivors
- Author: Duey, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798347101108
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99 Read moreThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels
$5.99 Add to cartBased on a true story, Wagon Wheels tells a powerful and overlooked story of the country’s post-Civil War era.
Formerly enslaved Ed Muldie and his family travel to Kansas in 1878 to claim land under th
- Series: I Can Read History Book
- Author: Brenner, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 1984
- ISBN10: 0064440524
- Language: English
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Decide & Survive: The Oregon Trail
$9.99 Read moreStep into 1846, when steamboats thundered down mighty rivers, wagon wheels carved ruts across the wide prairie, and whispers of fortune called thousands west. America is on the brink of change, and yo
- Series: Decide & Survive
- Author: Jackson, Jael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1638192421
- Language: English
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The Staircase
$10.99 Add to cartHow could Lizzy Enders’s father abandon her at a girls school run by nuns? She’s surrounded by Catholics–but she’s Methodist! Shunned by the other boarders, Lizzy befriends a wandering carpenter name… [more below]
- Series: Great Episodes
- Author: Rinaldi, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0152167889
- Language: English
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Eureka
$18.99 Add to cartFor fans of Inside Out and Back Again, Other Words for Home, and A Place to Hang the Moon — Eureka is a gorgeous and emotionally resonant novel-in-verse by multiple-award-winning poet Victoria Chang
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0374393532
- Language: English
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The Road from Nowhere
$19.99 Add to cartInside one of America’s most troubled periods of economic crisis, The Road From Nowhere, from master storyteller and Newbery medalist Avi, is both a tightly plotted adventure and a big-hearted tale of
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 154617947X
- Language: English
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The Copper Lady
$8.99 Add to cartThe boat creaked and moaned as the storm’s waves smashed into the ship. Down in the hold, Andre’ sat between crates that held the great copper lady, the Statue of Liberty. They were on their way to Am
- Series: On My Own History
- Author: Ross, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0876149603
- Language: English
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The Summer the Canal Came to Town
$13.00 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991365666
- Language: English
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Dark Enough to See the Stars: A Story of Escape on the Underground Railroad
$12.99 Add to cartBloodhounds chase twelve-year-old slave Moses as he follows the North Star to Pennsylvania on the Underground Railroad. His mother taught him to find the star before she was sold to a plantation hundr
- Author: Noonan, Cynthia Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0998180807
- Language: English
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Great Escapes: Journey to Freedom, 1838
$4.99 Add to cartAre you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the second installment in a brand-new, edge-of-your-seat series based on
- Series: Great Escapes #2
- Author: Winston, Sherri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062860380
- Language: English
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Fair Weather
$8.99 Read moreThirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family’s farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It’s 1893, the year … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0142500348
- Language: English
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Young Pioneers
$9.99 Add to cartA middle grade novel by Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of beloved Little House author Laura Ingalls Wilder! This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially du
- Series: Little House
- Author: Lane, Rose Wilder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0064406989
- Language: English
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Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis & Clark
$10.99 Add to cartA 150-pound Newfoundland dog teams with Lewis & Clark for an edge-of-your-seat middle grade adventure.
It is 1804, the year that Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery set out for- Series: Peachtree Junior Publication
- Author: Karwoski, Gail Langer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1561451908
- Language: English
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Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her fat… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Rogers, Andrea L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496587146
- Language: English
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Will’s Race for Home
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush-if they can survi… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0316299332
- Language: English
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Jackrabbit Jewel and the Butterfield Overland Stagecoach
$24.95 Add to cartJackrabbit Jewel and Conejo Grande find themselves immersed in a new adventure along the Butterfield Overland Mail route. This mail route covered a distance of 2,800 miles, beginning in St. Louis, Mis… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Trey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658865
- Language: English
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Books by Horseback: A Librarian’s Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children
$17.99 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards–Historical Category
Books By Horseback is a breathtaking adventure of a heroic Pack Horse Librarian who braves the harsh terrain of rural Kentucky to br- Author: Berne, Emma Carlson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 149981173X
- Language: English
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One Came Home
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book
“An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and re
An ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book
Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel- Author: Timberlake, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0375873457
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99 Read moreThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- Language: English
