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Juvenile fiction
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Pink and SaySay Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather. |
Fic Pol |
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Ashes of RosesSixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died. |
Fic Auc |
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Yellow StarFrom 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. |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of |
Fic Cur |
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Cleopatra Vii, Daughter of the NileWhile her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day. |
Fic Gre |
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FlotsamThe story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam. |
Fic Wie |
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The Book ThiefTrying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man the |
Fic Zus |
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Chanda's SecretsA girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. |
Fic Str |
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The Summer of the SwansA teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. |
Fic Bya |
