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Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
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[2008]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
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Series
Island trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1995.
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186 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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Pub. Date
2006.
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34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.
11) After the train
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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152 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
12) Burying the sun
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
13) The turning
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Pub. Date
2006.
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213 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
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