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2) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.
5) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to an end, Russian soldiers occupy Schwarz, Germany, bringing both friendships and hardship to the family of ten-year-old Fritz, whose grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer, and after they are forced to leave their farm, Fritz's mother and hired hand are arrested, leaving Fritz to fend for himself.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 1
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.
9) Tadpole
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
11) My Havana
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
14) Firehorse
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
15) Prairie whispers
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.
16) Rebecca and Ana
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
17) Here today
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
18) Hazel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
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