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Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1726, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
322) Trembling earth
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
323) The Star of Kazan
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
326) Black storm comin'
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
327) The river between us
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
330) Enemy in the fort
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
331) Kipling's choice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
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