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804732
Betty before X by Shabazz, Ilyasah 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018)

BTSB #: 804732 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Shabazz, Betty - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Stepfamilies - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.


961494
Beyond the bright sea by Wolk, Lauren 

BTSB Prebound(Dutton Children's Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 961494 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 770

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Families - Fiction Massachusetts - History|y20th century


Summary: Twelve-year-old orphan Crow embarks on a journey to discover who her parents were and why they abandoned her as an infant.


P03546
Bicycle spy by McDonough, Yona Zeldis 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03546 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - France - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Family life - France - Fiction Jews - France - Fiction Bicycles - Fiction Adventure fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.


52.24 *

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872154
Big city shakedown [Amazing Journeys In Historical Fiction]by Tapeta, Murray "Oak" 

Paperback(Seahorse Publishing, 2024)

BTSB #: 872154 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.3 MG+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: World Series (Baseball)|d(1989) - Fiction Earthquakes - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction


Summary: Pietro is a huge San Francisco Giants fan. So when his dad scores tickets to Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, Pietro is ecstatic. Unfortunately, the world has other plans. A massive earthquake rocks the city, destroying buildings and derailing their plans.


7.79 *

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872186
Big city shakedown [Amazing Journeys In Historical Fiction]by Tapeta, Murray "Oak" 

BTSB Prebound(Seahorse Publishing, 2024)

BTSB #: 872186 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.3 MG+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: World Series (Baseball)|d(1989) - Fiction Earthquakes - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction


Summary: Pietro is a huge San Francisco Giants fan. So when his dad scores tickets to Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, Pietro is ecstatic. Unfortunately, the world has other plans. A massive earthquake rocks the city, destroying buildings and derailing their plans.


17.04 *

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644466
Big River's Daughter by Miller, Bobbi 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2013)

BTSB #: 644466 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 640

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Laffite, Jean - Fiction Fink, Mike,|d1770-1823? - Fiction River boats - Fiction Pirates - Fiction Adventure fiction Christmas, Annie (Legendary character) - Fiction Buried treasure - Fiction New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812 - Fiction Mississippi River - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: When River Fillian's powerful father, a pirate on a Mississippi keeler, disappears after a horrific earthquake in 1811, she must challenge the infamous rivals who hope to claim his territory and find her own place in the new order.


365839
Birthday cake for George Washington by Ganeshram, Ramin 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 365839 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-9   
Lexile: 760

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Washington, George,|d1732-1799 - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Cooks - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Cake - Fiction African Americans - Fiction United States - History|y1783-1815 - Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) - History|y1783-1815 - Fiction


Summary: It is President Washington's birthday, and Hercules, Washington's slave and head chef, is planning to bake a special cake, provided he and his daughter can find a substitute for sugar.


6.50 *

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863492
Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

Paperback(Speak, 2017)

BTSB #: 863492 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction


Summary: Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.


9.83 *

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863495
Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2016)

BTSB #: 863495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction


Summary: Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.


22.58 *

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855446
Black beach : a community, an oil spill, and the origin of Earth Day by Stith, Shaunna 

BTSB Prebound(Little Bee Books, 2023)

BTSB #: 855446 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Earth Day - Fiction Oil spills - Fiction Environmental protection - Fiction Communities - Fiction


Summary: Based on actual events, this picture book tells the story of the first Earth Day through the eyes of a young girl named Sam.


23.28 *

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P00827
Black circle by Carman, Patrick 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00827 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Mystery Fiction Historical Fiction


Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Mystery fiction


Summary: Book 5 takes Dan and Amy Cahill on their most dangerous quest yet, one that brings them face to face with the only force capable of scaring the vicious Lucians: the Madrigals.


929509
Black dove, white raven by Wein, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2015)

BTSB #: 929509 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG Lexile: 900

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - Fiction Americans - Ethiopia - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Air pilots - Fiction Adventure fiction Race relations - Fiction Adoption - Fiction Ethiopia - History|y1889-1974 - Fiction


Summary: Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.


6.50 *

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P02062
Black ice by Lane, Andy 

Audio Book([Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02062 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Mystery Fiction Historical Fiction


Subjects: Mystery fiction Homicide - Fiction Great Britain - History|yVictoria, 1837-1901 - Fiction Moscow (Russia) - History|y19th century - Fiction Russia - History|yAlexander II, 1855-1881 - Fiction


Summary: In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiousities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder.


61.74 *

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124448
Blackbird girls by Blankman, Anne 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 124448 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 560

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Large print books Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 Nuclear power plants - Accidents - Fiction Disasters - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Leningradskaia oblast' (Russia)


Summary: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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124492
Blackbird girls by Blankman, Anne 

Paperback(Puffin, 2021)

BTSB #: 124492 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 560 F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 Nuclear power plants - Accidents - Fiction Disasters - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Leningradskaia oblast' (Russia)


Summary: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person.


7.37 *

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124580
Blackbird girls by Blankman, Anne 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2020)

BTSB #: 124580 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 560 F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 Nuclear power plants - Accidents - Fiction Disasters - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Leningradskaia oblast' (Russia)


Summary: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person.


22.58 *

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P09637
Blessing's Bead by Edwardson, Debby Dahl 

Audio Book()

BTSB #: P09637 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Summary: In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.


56.99 *

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185928
Blood on the river : James Town 1607 by Carbone, Elisa Lynn 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2007)

BTSB #: 185928 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.8 6-8 Lexile: 820 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Powhatan Indians - Fiction Native Americans - Fiction Jamestown (Va.) - Fiction Virginia - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.


7.37 *

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622330
Blood water paint by McCullough, Joy 

Paperback(Dutton Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 622330 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.5 UG RC: 5.5 9-12 Lexile: 740 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia,|d1593-1652 or 1653 - Fiction Novels in verse Artists - Fiction Sex role - Fiction Rape - Fiction Trials (Rape) - Fiction Renaissance - Italy - Fiction Italy - History|y1559-1789 - Fiction


Summary: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.


069879
Blood years by Arnold, Elana K. 

BTSB Prebound(Balzer + Bray, 2023)

BTSB #: 069879 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-16   
AR: 5.3 UG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Romania - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Jews - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Family life - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Romania - Fiction Chernivtsi (Ukraine) - Fiction


Summary: As war breaks out in Europe, the lives of two Jewish sisters in Romania change. They struggle to keep their grandfather's business, to keep their home, to keep their lives. Younger sister Frederieke Teitler must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.


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