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Historical Fiction

Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle L740; Crispin

Bruchac – Sacajawea L840

Collier – My Brother Sam is Dead    L770

Crowe – Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Utah author)

Cushman, Karen –  Catherine Called Birdy L1170,

Midwife’s Apprentice L1240 (class book)

Edmunds and Lanz – The Matchlock Gun  (80 pages)

Fox - The Slave Dancer L970

Greene  – Summer of My German Soldier  L800

Hesse – Out of the Dust

Lowry, Lois  – Number the Stars L670,  The Giver L760]

Paterson – Lyddie L860   

Schmidt - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy   1000L pages 217

Selden, Bernice – The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley

Spinelli, Honus and Me  L690

Uchida– Journey to Topaz  L970 (Reading Class Book)

Houston – Farewell to Manzanar  L1040

Walters – War of the Eagles, Caged Eagles L650,690     "