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  • The Gold Rush

    Sally Senzell Isaacs

    Library Binding
    None

  • Trouble on the Ohio River

    Norma Jean Lutz, Adam Wallenta

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Dec. 1, 1999)
    In early nineteenth-century Cincinnati, ten-year-old Lucy Lankford, eagerly awaits the arrival of her new piano and, along with her recently orphaned cousin, Ben Allerton, tries to find out why the school bully is so attached to a worn remnant of flowered fabric.During the city drought, ten-year-old Lucy, along with her cousin, Ben, befriend the school bully

  • Coming of Age

    Ira Peck, Steven Jantzen, Daniel Rosen

    Paperback (Scholastic, June 1, 1984)
    Book by Peck, Ira, Jantzen, Steven, Rosen, Daniel

  • The Boston Massacre

    Susan Martins Miller, Adam Wallenta

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2000)
    In Boston in 1770, ten-year-old Stephen Lankford and his twelve-year-old sister Lydia become involved in the events surrounding the street clash between angry colonists and a squad of British soldiers that came to be known as the Boston Massacre.
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  • The Oregon Trail

    Sally Senzell Isaacs

    Library Binding
    None

  • Empire Dreams

    Wendy Wax, Todd Doney

    Library Binding (Silver Moon Pr, May 1, 2000)
    In 1930 in New York City, as she worries about the Depression's effect on her family, eleven-year-old Julie takes a personal interest in the building of the Empire State Building and befriends a Mohawk boy who is working on the project.
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  • Kit Carson

    Frank Lee Beals

    Unknown Binding (Wheeler Pub, )
    None

  • Escape from Slavery

    Norma Jean Lutz, Adam Wallenta

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 2000)
    In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered.
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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.
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  • The rush for gold

    Frank Lee Beals

    Hardcover (Wheeler Pub. Co, March 15, 1958)
    None

  • 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.
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  • The Trail of Tears

    Sally Senzell Isaacs

    Library Binding (Heinemann, April 1, 2004)
    Isaacs, Sally Senzell
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