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Fifth
and Sixth Grade
| Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Fever 1793 |
| Auch, Mary Jane |
Road to Home |
| Arrington, Frances |
Prairie Whispers |
| Avi |
The Fighting Ground (American Revolution)
Don't You Know There's a War On? (WWII)
Prairie School
The Secret School (1925 One Room School)
Night Journeys (1767) |
| Ayres, Katherine |
Silver Dollar Girl
Macaroni Boy (Depression) |
| Baker, Betty Mining |
The Spirit Is Willing (1880s) |
| Bartoletti, Susan |
A Coal Miner's Bride (Polish-American 1896)
No Man's Land (Civil War) |
| Beatty, Patricia |
Who Comes With Cannons
Charley Skedaddle (Civil War) |
| Birney,
Betty |
Seven
Wonders of Sassafras Springs |
| Blackwood, Gary |
Shakespeare's Scribe (England 1558 Plague)
The Shakespeare Stealer |
| Blos, Joan |
A Gathering of Days |
| Brooke, Peggy |
Jake's Orphan (N.D. farm 1926) |
| Choldenko,
Gennifer |
Al
Capone Does My Shirts |
| Clapp, Patricia |
Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
The Tamarack Tree (Civil War) |
| Collier, James |
My Brother Sam is Dead (Revolution)
Jump Ship to Freedom (Civil War) |
| Conrad, Pam |
Prairie Songs (Nebraska Pioneers)
Our House: The Stories of Levittown |
| Cowley, Marjorie |
The Golden Bull |
| Crum, Shutta |
Spitting Image |
| Cullen, Lynn |
Nelly in the Wilderness |
| Curry, Jane L. |
What the Dickens (Pennsylvania 1840s)
A Stolen Life (Colonial--Indentured)
The Black Canary (Elizabethan England) |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Elijah of Buxton |
| Cushman, Karen |
Rodzina
Catherine, Called Birdy |
| Davis, Ossie |
Just Like Martin (Civil Rights) |
| Denenberg, Barry |
When Will this Cruel War Be Over? (Civil War)
Journal of Ben Uchida
(Japanese American Internment) |
| Donaldson, Joan |
A Pebble and a Pen (1800s) |
| Doucet, Sharon |
Fiddle Fever (1914 Cajun Farm Life) |
| Durbin, William |
Journal of Otto Peltonen (Finnish Immigrant) |
| Edmonds, Walter |
Matchlock Gun |
| Erdrich,
Louise |
The
Game of Silence |
| Fletcher, Susan |
Walk Across the Sea (California 1850s) |
| Fleischman, Paul |
Bull Run (Civil War) |
| Forbes, Esther |
Johnny Tremain (Revolutionary War) |
| Foreman, Michael |
The Boy Who Sailed With Columbus |
| Forrester, Sandra |
Wheel of the Moon (Indentured Servants in VA) |
| Fusco, Kimberly Newton |
The Wonder of Charlie Anne |
| Giff,
Patricia Reilly |
Willow
Run
Storyteller
Lily's Crossing (WWII)
Nory Ryan's Song (Ireland) |
| Glaze, Lynn |
Seasons of the Trail |
| Going,
K.L. |
Liberation
of Gabriel King |
| Greenwood, Barbara |
Factory Girl |
| Haas, Jessie |
Chase |
| Hahn, Mary D. |
Stepping on the Cracks (WWII) |
| Hale, Marian |
The Truth About Sparrows |
| Harris, Carol |
A Place for Joey (Boston 1900s) |
| Hesse, Karen |
A Time of Angels (1918 Flu Epidemic)
The Stowaway |
| Holm, Jennifer |
Our Only May Amelia
(Frontier pioneer Wash. State)
Boston Jane (1889 Wash. State)
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| Holman, Felice |
The Wild Children (Russian Revolution) |
| Hunt, Irene |
Across Five Aprils (Civil War) |
| Ibbotson, Eva |
Journey to the River Sea (1910 Brazil) |
| Isaacs, Anne |
Torn Thread (Holocaust) |
| Kadohata,
Cynthia |
Weedflower |
| Karr, Kathleen |
Spy in the Sky |
| Kerr, Judith |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
| Keith, Harold |
Rifles for Watie (Civil War) |
| Ketchum, Liza |
Orphan Journey Home (1828) |
| Klages, Ellen |
Green Glass Sea |
| Klass, Sheila |
Little Women Next Door |
| Kline, Lisa |
Eleanor Hill (1900s independent woman) |
| Kochenderfer, Lee |
Victory Garden (WWII) |
| Krensky, Stephen |
The Printer's Apprentice |
| LaFaye, A. |
Worth (Nebraska Frontier) |
| Lasky, Kathryn |
The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
(Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804) |
| LeZotte, Ann Clare |
T4:A Novel In Verse |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor |
Art of Keeping Cool (WWII) |
| Lovelace, Maud |
Betsy Series |
| Lowry, Lois |
Number the Stars (Holocaust) |
| Martin,
Ann |
Here
Today |
| Matas, Carol |
Lisa's War (1940s)
The War Within (Civil War) |
| McCaughrean,
G. |
Kite
Rider |
| McDowell, Marilyn |
Carolina Harmony |
| McSwigan, Marie |
Snow Treasure (Norway WWII) |
| Meyer, Carolyn |
Beware, Princess Elizabeth (England) |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins (WWII) |
| Naidoo, Beverly |
Journey to Jo'burg (So. Africa Apartheid) |
| Nelson, Theresa |
And One for All (Vietnam War) |
| Nixon, Joan L. |
Caught In the Act (1856 Missouri)
Caesar's Story, 1759 (Slavery)
Ann's Story, 1747 (Colonial) |
| O'Dell, Scott |
Sing Down the Moon |
| Orvel, Uri |
Run, Boy, Run (Holocaust) |
| Osbourne, Mary Pope |
My Secret War (WW II) |
| Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn |
Little Ship Under Full Sail (Seneca Indians 1779) |
| Park, Linda |
When My Name was Keoko
(Japanese occupied Korea) |
| Paterson, K. |
The Master Puppeteer (18th century Japan)
Lyddie (1840s Textile Mills) |
| Peck,
Richard |
Teacher's
Funeral |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
Bird in a Box |
| Prevost, Guillaume |
The Book of Time |
| Pryor, Bonnie |
Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution
Thomas In Danger (American Revolution)
Joseph's Choice 1861 |
| Ray, Delia |
Ghost Girl (1939 Virginia) |
| Robinet, Harriette |
Walking to the Bus--Rider Blues
(Alabama Bus Boycott) |
| Schmidt,
Gary D. |
Lizzie
Bright and the Buckminster Boy
The Wednesday Wars (1960s) |
| Schwartz, Virginia |
Send One Angel Down (Slavery) |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatly |
Cat Running (Depression) |
| Speare, Elizabeth |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
(Colonial New England) |
| Taylor, Mildred |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(Depression, Discrimination)
Mississippi Bridge (Mississippi 1930s)
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| Thor, Annika |
A Faraway Island |
| Van Leevwen, Jean |
Cabin on Trouble Creek |
| Vos, Ida |
The Key is Lost (Holocaust) |
| Wait, Lea |
Stopping to Home (1800s Maine)
Finest Kind (1836 Maine)
|
| Wallace, Barbara B. |
Sparrows in the Scullery (19th century England) |
| Warner, Sally |
Finding Hattie (1882) |
| Whelan, Gloria |
Once on This Island (Mackinac during War of 1812)
Miranda's Last Stand (Wild West)
Return to the Island (Michigan 1818)
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| Wild, Margaret |
Let the Celebrations Begin (Holocaust) |
| Winthrop,
Elizabeth |
Counting
on Grace |
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