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| Last Dance on Holladay Street |
Carbone, Elisa Lynn |
YA CARBONE |
| In 1878, thirteen-year-old Eva seeks her birth mother in Colorado, only to find the city and her mother are not what she imagined. |
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| My Antonia |
Cather, Willa |
YA CATHER |
| Antonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit. |
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| The Last of the Mohicans |
Cooper, James Fenimore |
YA COOPER |
Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War.
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| Calico Bush |
Field, Rachel |
J FIE |
| This heartwarming and enthralling classic is the story of a young girl who is left orphaned and alone shortly after her French family arrives in the New World. This memorable story offers a historically signiricant portrait of pioneer life in the eighteenth century. |
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| Cat O' Nine Tales |
Golding, Julia |
YA GOLDING |
| Cat is living in the lap of luxury--and is so bored she's going out of her mind. But when she and her friends are captured and forced to work on a boat bound for the New World, Cat may finally be in over her head. Sail with Cat to America, to explore the wilds of a new frontier and maybe even find a place where she is finally free to be herself. |
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| Hattie Big Sky |
Larson, Kirby |
YA LARSON |
| After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. |
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| Woods Runner |
Paulsen, Gary |
YA PAULSEN |
| From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes. |
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| A Stitch in Time |
Rinaldi, Ann |
YA RINALDI |
| Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory. |
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| Daniel's Walk |
Spooner, Michael |
YA SPOONER |
| With little more than a bedroll, a change of clothes, and a Bible, fourteen-year-old Daniel LeBlanc begins walking the Oregon Trail in search of his father who, according to a mysterious visitor, is in big trouble and needs his son's help. |
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| Riding by Starlight |
Thomas, Carroll |
YA THOMAS |
| In 1860, fifteen-year-old Pony Express rider Henry Trescott makes many new friends, including Bill Cody, while earning money to help his family through a Kansas Territory drought. |
| Black Storm Comin' |
Wilson, Diane L. |
YA WILSON |
| Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South. |
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