Historical - United States - 20th Century
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Courtney Friendship Superhero
$7.99 Read moreCourtney’s suited up for an epic adventure — just like Crystal Starshooter, the video game hero she invented. Crystal is brave and bold and doesn’t back down. Courtney tries to be the same in real li… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hertz, Kellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1683371704
- Language: English
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How High the Moon
$8.99 Add to cartTo Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl’s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of t… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Karyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 316484016
- Language: English
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Maryellen: Taking Off
$7.99 Read moreMaryellen is in charge of planning her tenth birthday, designing a flying machine, and – most important of all – taking care of the family dog, Scooter, on a camping trip. One night, while she’s holdi… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371372
- Language: English
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Being Clem
$8.99 Read moreThe final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Coretta Scott King Author Honoree and Scott O’Dell Award medalist Lesa Cline-Ransome.
Clem can make anybody, even his grumpy older si- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0823452417
- Language: English
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Julie: The Big Break
$7.99 Read moreJulie Albright is dealing with big changes since her parents’ divorce. When she finds out that her new school has a basketball team, life starts looking up – until the coach tells her girls aren’t all… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: McDonald, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371321
- Language: English
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Courtney Changes the Game
$7.99 Read moreCourtney Moore is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can’t understand why there aren’t more girl characters. When Courtney imagines her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle an… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hertz, Kellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1683371690
- Language: English
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Melody: No Ordinary Sound
$7.99 Read moreMelody Ellison can’t wait to sing her first solo at church, and she wants to pick a song that’s special. She gets advice from her big brother, who has his sights set on becoming a Motown star, and ins… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371402
- Language: English
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Summer of the Tree Army: A Civilian Conservation Corps Story
$17.99 Read moreWhen young Charlie Brightelot first spies the mysterious barracks in the woods near his home, he’s not sure what to think. His father explains that the barracks will soon house young men serving in th… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Whelan, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1585363855
- Language: English
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Rebecca: The Sound of Applause
$7.99 Read moreRebecca Rubin was born for the stage. If only her very traditional family understood this When her cousin Ana’s family needs money to leave Russia, Rebecca puts on a sidewalk show, but all she earns … [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Greene, Jacqueline Dembar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371445
- Language: English
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The Coal Thief
$15.00 Add to cartBrrr! Georgie wakes up to a freezing morning in 1920s Pennsylvania and gets the bad news that there is no coal to heat the farmhouse–and he knows there is no money to buy more, either. Just after he … [more below]
- Author: Adams, Alane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1940716276
- Language: English
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Nanea: The Spirit of Aloha
$7.99 Read moreNanea Mitchell may be the youngest in her family, but she knows she’s old enough to do grown-up things. Before she can prove she’s ready for responsibility, the unthinkable happens. Japan attacks Pear… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Larson, Kirby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371380
- Language: English
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Kit: Read All about It
$7.99 Add to cartKit Kittredge has a nose for news — but she never dreamed that the news stories about the hard times of the Depression would become her own story. First Mother’s bothersome friends move in with the K… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1683371585
- Language: English
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Midnight Without a Moon
$9.99 Read more“A powerful story.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cot… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328753638
- Language: English
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As Fast as Words Could Fly
$12.95 Read moreThe story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a “whi
- Author: Tuck, Pamela M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1620148595
- Language: English
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The List of Unspeakable Fears
$17.99 Read moreThe War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this “deliciously creepy” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade historical novel following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears–and… [more below]
- Author: Kramer, J. Kasper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1534480749
- Language: English
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Bread and Roses, Too
$9.99 Read more2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Rosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lul- Author: Paterson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0547076517
- Language: English
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Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
$21.95 Read moreAsian/Pacific American Award for Literature – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls’ Lea
- Author: Krishnaswami, Uma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1600602614
- Language: English
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Moon’s First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship
$8.99 Read moreA New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller! Delight in this heartwarming picture book about a moon who just wants a friend…
Commemorate the extraordinary 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mi
- Author: Hill, Susanna Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1728223083
- Language: English
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The Wind Called My Name
$20.95 Read moreIn this heartwarming historical middle-grade set in the 1930s — perfect for fans of Esperanza Rising and Hattie Big Sky— Margarita Sandoval and her family try to navigate the shifting winds of belon
- Author: Sanchez, Mary Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1620147807
- Language: English
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More All-Of-A-Kind Family
$13.95 Add to cartSydney Taylor’s beloved All-of-a-Kind Family series chronicles a Jewish immigrant family at the beginning of the twentieth century. The richly drawn characters, based on Taylor’s own life, include fiv
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 10, 2014
- ISBN10: 1939601150
- Language: English
