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  • Making Tracks

    Adrienne Wolfert, Justin Bell

    Library Binding (Silver Moon Pr, July 1, 2000)
    In 1934, in the midst of the Depression, fourteen-year-old Harry James Harmony runs away to find his father who has traveled to Chicago in search of work.
    T

  • Liberty on 23rd Street

    Jacqueline B. Glasthal

    Hardcover (Silver Moon Press, June 15, 2006)
    It is March of 1885, and New York City is preparing to accept a gift from the people of France to the people of America: the Statue of Liberty. There is a slight problem, though. The statue needs a base to stand on, and raising funds is proving difficult. Twelve-year-old Emma Kagan has a problem, too safely delivering a package from her Lower East Side neighborhood to a department store miles north. Little does Emma know that her errand will involve a newfound friend, the police, and the Statue of Liberty herself.
    P

  • Luke: 1849--On the Golden Trail

    Bonnie Pryor, Bert Dodson

    Paperback (HarperCollins, March 1, 2000)
    During the Gold Rush, dreamers of every kind flocked to California to make their fortunes. When Luke jumps at the chance to leave his prairie home and join his adventurous uncle, his own journey, filled with excitement, discovery, and danger, becomes a search for gold halfway across America.During the Gold Rush, dreamers of every kind flocked to California to make their fortunes. When Luke jumps at the chance to leave his prairie home and join his adventurous uncle, his own journey, filled with excitement, discovery, and danger, becomes a search for gold halfway across America.
    R

  • Journey to Monticello: Traveling in Colonial Times

    James E. Knight

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, May 1, 1982)
    A young lawyer sent as a messenger by John Hancock makes the long and difficult journey from Massachusetts to Jefferson's home in Virginia
    U

  • Joseph: 1861-A Rumble of War

    Bonnie Pryor, Bert Dodson

    Paperback (Camelot, March 1, 2000)
    As the Civil War arrives in his Kentucky town, Joseph watches the town split down the middle and feels himself pulled apart by the growing tensions. Original.
    V

  • First Heroes for Freedom

    Marcia Bjerregaard, Marty Jones

    Library Binding (Silver Moon Pr, March 1, 2000)
    In 1778 fifteen-year-old Cuff, a slave on an island off the coast of Rhode Island, joins the Continental Army and experiences the horrors of the Battle of Rhode Island as he fights for his own personal freedom.
    T

  • Frontier Village: A Town Is Born

    Catherine E. Chambers, Dick Smolinski

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1984)
    The Nesbitt family loves life on their frontier farm, only wishing it was closer to a town, until the arrival of new settlers leads to the birth of Nesbitt's Crossing
    N

  • Salem Days - Pbk

    James E. Knight, David Wenzel

    Paperback (Troll Communications, Sept. 1, 1998)
    A young farm boy running away to sea in 1774 explores the Salem harbor while waiting for his ship to sail
    T

  • Indiana Days: Life in a Frontier Town

    Catherine E. Chambers, John Lawn

    Hardcover (Troll Communications Llc, July 1, 1984)
    Traveling by train, Kristi journeys from the Iowa Territory to the Indiana farm country to stay for a year with her aunt and uncle and go to school with her cousins
    P

  • Log-Cabin Home: Pioneers in the Wilderness

    Catherine E. Chambers, Allan Eitzen

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, Sept. 1, 1984)
    After spending their first summer in Kentucky on their farm camp, the time has come for the Craleys and their neighbors to join in a cabin raising
    U

  • Thomas in Danger 1779

    Bonnie Pryor, Bert Dodson

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois. Reprint.
    R

  • Frontier Dream: Life on the Great Plains

    Catherine E. Chambers, Dick Smolinski

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, Sept. 1, 1984)
    A homesteader in the Dakota Territory, Chris Isaacsen dreams of owning his own farm, which will come true--according to the Homestead Act--if he lives on the land for five years
    J