All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.
Armstrong, Jennifer (J)
Theodore Roosevelt: Letters From A Young Coal Miner
Thirteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901.
Avi (J)
The Secret School
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as a teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
Brooke, Margaret (Peggy) (J)
Jake's Orphan
When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother.
Coleman, Evelyn (J American Girl)
Mystery Of The Dark Tower
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears. Series: American Girl History Mysteries
Erickson, John R. (J)
Moonshiner's Gold
In Canadian, Texas, in 1927, not long after his father's death, Riley and his fiddle-playing grandfather must find a way to save the family ranch from a group of moonshiners and the men behind their operation.
Durbin, William (J My Name Is)
The Journal Of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant
In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott (J)
Darby
In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
Harlow, Joan Hiatt (J)
Joshua's Song
Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.
Harris, Carol Flynn (J)
A Place For Joey
In this novel set in early 20-century Boston, a family of Italian immigrants works hard to attain their dream - a farm in the country - but their son Joey can't bear to leave the city.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie (J)
Lumber Camp Library
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Lindquist, Susan Hart (J)
Summer Soldiers
After his father goes off to war during the summer of 1918, eleven-year-old Joe, along with his friends, contends with the town bullies and tries to figure out the meaning of courage.
McKissack, Patricia C. (J Dear America)
Color Me Dark: The Diary Of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley (J & also sound recording)
Gib And The Gray Ghost
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. Sequel to: Gib Rides Home
Auch, Mary Jane (YA)
Ashes Of Roses
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Ingold, Jeanette (YA)
Pictures, 1918
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.