Bonanza Girl
By: Patricia Beatty
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Katherine Scott, a widow, leaves Portland, Oregon, with her two children for the Idaho gold fields …
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1. Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
By: Lois Lenski
3.85
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenski reconstructs the real life story of Mary Jemison, w… read more
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"It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage."-Lois Lenski, Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
2. The Cross and the Switchblade
By: David Wilkerson , John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill
4.26
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills comes to New York City and influences troubled teenage… read more
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"Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan."-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
"The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power."-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
"We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals."-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
"I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe."-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
3. Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
By: Ralph Moody
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Thr… read more
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"There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dish…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
"You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mar…"-Ralph Moody, Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
4. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston
3.70
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent … read more
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- historical
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"Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival."-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged b…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were dr…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
5. Bound for Oregon
By: R.W. Alley , James Watling , Jean Van Leeuwen
3.86
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a… read more
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- historical
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage
By: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
4.14
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora … read more
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7. They Loved to Laugh
By: Marguerite de Angeli , Kathryn Worth
4.18
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Tears and laughter alternate in this novel of a young girl's growth to womanhood in the 1830s. … read more
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"There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts."-Marguerite de Angeli, They Loved to Laugh
8. Bonanza Girl
By: Patricia Beatty
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Katherine Scott, a widow, leaves Portland, Oregon, with her two children for the Idaho gold fields … read more
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9. Elijah of Buxton
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel f… read more
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10. Rules of the Road (Rules of the Road, #1)
By: Joan Bauer
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11" at 16 y… read more
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12. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
By: Richard Peck
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more
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13. The Slopes of War
By: None
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg … read more
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14. The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming
By: J. Anderson Coats
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
High-spirited young Jane is excited to be part of Mr. Mercer's plan to bring Civil War widows and o… read more
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15. Twenty and Ten
By: William Pène du Bois , Claire Huchet Bishop
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
During the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French kids in a boarding school agree to hid… read more
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16. Moonshiner's Son
By: Carolyn Reeder
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbid… read more
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17. The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
3.91
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more
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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
18. The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
By: Albert Marrin
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Describes how American military forces helped the Allies turn the tide of World War I and how the U… read more
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19. Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #3)
By: Laurence Yep
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden … read more
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20. What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)
By: Janet B. Pascal
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire … read more
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