Historical - United States - 20th Century
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Who Gives a Hoot?: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet
$9.99 Add to cartFrom Newbery Honor author Jacqueline Kelly comes a third title in her illustrated chapter book series for younger readers featuring the beloved characters from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.
Out in- Series: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet #3
- Author: Kelly, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 125014339X
- Language: English
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Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story
$17.95 Read moreIn 1932, Akron, Ohio was no better off than other parts of the country. Since Black Tuesday in ’29, companies are closed, men all over the state are out of work, and families are running out of hope. … [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Mackall, Dandi Daley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1585362867
- Language: English
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Dust for Dinner
$5.99 Add to cartJake and Maggy lived on a farm where they loved to sing and dance to the music from Mama’s radio. Then terrible dust storms came and ruined the land. The family had no choice but to auction off the fa
- Series: I Can Read Level 3 #1
- Author: Turner, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 006444225X
- Language: English
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Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves
$19.99 Add to cartIn this moving and timeless story, award-winning author L. M. Elliott captures life on the U.S. homefront during World War II, weaving a rich portrait of a family reeling from loss and the chilling ye
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063056569
- Language: English
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Samantha: Lost and Found
$7.99 Add to cartThings have changed for Samantha. She leaves quiet Mount Bedford for the bustle of New York City and the company of Aunt Cornelia’s ten-year-old twin sisters, Agnes and Agatha. This pair is good at ge… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1683372018
- Language: English
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Dark Water Rising
$9.99 Add to cartI looked and saw water rushing in from Galveston Bay on one side and from the gulf on the other. The two seas met in the middle of Broadway, swirling over the wooden paving blocks, and I couldn’t help
- Author: Hale, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0312629087
- Language: English
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Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
$29.97 Add to cartAll three books in the Coretta Scott King Award-winning series by New York Times-bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia are now available in one beautiful, giftable box set
Each humorous, unforgetta
- Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0062889656
- Language: English
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The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartIn this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him.
Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn’t happy. He is sure
- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0618724834
- Language: English
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My Own Lightning
$8.99 Read more- Author: Wolk, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0525555617
- Language: English
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Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children’s Crusade Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIt’s May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Butler-Ngugi, Anitra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669059413
- Language: English
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Nobody Did It
$15.95 Add to cart“Well, who did it?” Mom asked.
“NOBODY did it!” Jake said sternly.
Since the creation of kids and the invention of classrooms, there has always been a class clown. Follow fifth grader Jake as he shares
- Author: Accomando, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1637109164
- Language: English
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Landed
$19.99 Read moreSun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the
place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns
him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act,- Author: Lee, Milly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0374343144
- Language: English
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Julie: My Journal
$7.99 Read moreWhen fifth-grader Julie discovers that girls aren’t allowed on the basketball team at her new school, she’s determined to change the rules . . . but making new friends is harder, now that her parents … [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: McDonald, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1683372263
- Language: English
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Secrets
$13.95 Add to cartSecret is about a thirteen-year-old who is afraid to tell her family a secret she has been harboring in fear of her family being hurt and separating.
- Author: Spruill, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887318271
- Language: English
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Operation: Happy: A World War II Story of Courage, Resilience, and an Unbreakable Bond
$18.99 Add to cartAs World War II enters her backyard, a young girl tries to cope with the war and keep her family together by completing a bucket list with her best friend: her dog Happy. Featuring a dog’s POV and ins
- Author: Walsh, Jenni L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0310159261
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Bridge
$19.99 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1903 in Brooklyn and all fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom wants is to experience the thrill, the grandeur, and the electricity of the new amusement park at Coney Island. But that do
- Author: Hesse, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312674287
- Language: English
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When War Knocks
$9.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1943, adventurous twelve-year-old George is growing up in a bustling, northern Michigan copper mining town. As the ninth of ten children born to Finnish immigrant parents, George is n
- Author: Kivisto, Kristine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1735726206
- Language: English
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A Sky Full of Stars
$7.99 Add to cartThis powerful coming-of-age story from the author of Midnight Without a Moon will enlighten and enchant readers and is perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Sharon M. Draper.
In 1955 Mississippi,
- Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667208
- Language: English
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Bernice and the Shadow Witch
$15.99 Add to cartIt’s the holidays in New Orleans! It’s eerily cold and dark and snowflakes are falling. Mrs. Hart is getting ready for their big New Year’s Eve party and pushes Bernice to be more sociable. In the pro
- Series: The Bernice Books #2
- Author: Ricca, Brandt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988123514
- Language: English
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Goin’ Someplace Special
$8.99 Add to cartThrough moving prose and beautiful watercolors, a Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator duo collaborate to tell the poignant tale of a spirited young girl who comes f… [more below]
- Author: McKissack, Patricia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1416927352
- Language: English
