El Estanque del Mirlo (the Witch of Blackbird Pond)
by Elizabeth George Speare
The Story of the Samson
by Kathleen Benner Duble and Alexander Farquharson
Meet Josefina, an American Girl (American Girls Collection: Josefina 1824)
by Valerie Tripp
Eight-year-old Sarah's high spirits help make her family's long journey from Missouri to Oregon more bearable, though they do cause both her and her best friend Almira Ann some problems.
After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.
Of all the places in the world, Uri really loves to be at his grandparents' house. There he can stay up way past his bedtime and eat as many sweets from the chocolate box as he likes. There's only one forbidden place in that house: the third drawer in Grandpa's desk. This drawer is locked. No one ever opens it until one day when Uri finds the key to the third drawer. From that moment, nothing is ever the same. Grandpa's Third Drawer takes up the difficult challenge of discussing the Holocaust w...
"Shortly after Cass's big brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes pen pals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war"--
Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border.
Emma's Escape (Soundprints' Read-And-Discover: Level 3)
by Sharon Shavers Gayle
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Insitution, Emma finds herself going back in time where, as a runaway slave, she uses the Underground Railroad to make her way to Canada.
Smithsonian Historical Fiction (Smithsonian Historical Fiction)
by Veeda Bybee, Rebecca Rissman, Nikki Shannon Smith, and Brandon Terrell
Bob Tregonnis, the son of a Cornish fisherman, joins a sailing ship to America, but on the way the ship is taken by pirates and most of the crew slain. Bob is forced to join the pirate crew, but then notices their love of gambling. Being a good wood carver, Bob decides to trick the pirates, and makes some loaded dice, winning a fortune from them.