A Promising Life: Coming of Age with America
by Emily Arnold McCully
Another coming-of-age novel from the author of beloved favorite Little Women Polly Milton never questions the way she is—until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly’s age, and wouldn’t be caught dead playing in the snow. Will Polly ever learn to be like the other girls? And does she even want to? Sometimes being old-fashioned is right in style. A timeless story by the author of Little Women.
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
Bachelor Girl (Little House: the Rose years) (Little House Chapter Books: The Rose Years, #8)
by Roger Lea MacBride
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.
Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud's world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake. Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stable boy. But when a series of tragedies strike, Sarah is left alone and very afraid. Her only hope is...
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
Elsie Dinsmore (Life of Faith: Elsie Dinsmore, #54) (Elsie Books (Holly Hall), #12)
by Martha Finley
Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
Mystery at Chilkoot Pass (Mysteries Through Time) (Mysteries Through History, #17)
by Steiner Barbara and Barbara Steiner
During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
Going to Town (My first little house books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Renee Graef
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Shadows on Society Hill (American Girl Mysteries) (American Girl: Addy Mysteries)
by Evelyn Coleman
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.
Paul Bunyan Y El Buey Azul (Paul Bunyan and the Big Blue Ox) (Leyendas E Historias Estadounidenses (American Legends and Folktales))
by Virginia Schomp
Two newsboys in 1830s New York sell copies of the New York Sun reporting that a powerful telescope has found exotic animals and structures on the moon. Based on a true story.
Railroad! a Story of the Transcontinental Railroad (Soundprints' Read-And-Discover: Level 3)
by Darice Bailer