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393486
Refugee by Gratz, Alan 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 393486 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 800

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Immigration and emigration - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction


Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.


676475
Resistance by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 676475 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Warsaw (Poland) - History|yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction Poland - History|yOccupation, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.


22.58 *

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588296
Running out of night by Lovejoy, Sharon 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 588296 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.3 MG Lexile: 830 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom.


21.88 *

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960397
Runs with Courage by Wolf, Joan M. 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 960397 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
Lexile: 680

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Lakota Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Great Plains - Fiction Private schools - Fiction School stories Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Dakota Territory - Fiction


Summary: In the Dakota Territory in 1880, Four Winds, a ten-year-old Lakota girl, is taken from her family to a boarding school, where she is taught English and expected to assimilate into white culture.


862365
Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow by Sturm, James 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Jump at the Sun, 2019)

BTSB #: 862365 Available

Dewey: 796.357/NAges: 10-14   
F&P: X

Subjects: Paige, Satchel,|d1906-1982 Baseball players - Biography Negro leagues African Americans - Biography Biographical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: The story of a baseball hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American. In graphic novel format.


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411888
Saving Hanno by Halahmy, Miriam 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)

BTSB #: 411888 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Animals


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Dachshunds - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Kindertransports (Rescue operations) - Fiction Jews - Germany - History|y1933-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Fiction


Summary: Nine-year-old Rudi and his beloved dachshund, Hanno, face peril as they are being sent from Nazi Germany to England on the special trains called Kindertransports during World War II. Includes historical note.


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198934
Seeking freedom : the untold story of Fortress Monroe and the ending of slavery in America by Castrovilla, Selene 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2022)

BTSB #: 198934 Temp OS

Dewey: 973/BAges: 6-9   
Lexile: 800

Subjects: Scott, George Butler, Benjamin F.|q(Benjamin Franklin),|d1818-1893 Fugitive slaves - Biography Slavery Fortification Unites States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Fort Monroe (Va.)


Summary: In this dramatic Civil War story, a courageous enslaved fugitive teams with a cunning Union general to save a Union fort from the Confederates--and triggers the end of slavery in the United States.


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244706
Segregated skies : David Harris's trailblazing journey to rise above racial barriers by Cottman, Michael H. 

BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2021)

BTSB #: 244706 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 9-12   


Subjects: Harris, David E.,|d1934- Air pilots - United States - Biography African American air pilots - Biography Race relations


Summary: Follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.


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Shackles from the deep : tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy by Cottman, Michael H. 

BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2016)

BTSB #: 244730 Available

Dewey: 382.4409/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 7.5 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1160

Subjects: Henrietta Marie (Ship) Slave ships Slave trade - History Shipwrecks Excavations (Archeology) Underwater archeology


Summary: Follows the exploration of a slave ship discovered on the seafloor, the Henrietta Marie, shedding light on the history of slavery.


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Sittin' up by Moses, Shelia P. 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2014)

BTSB #: 661442 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Community life - North Carolina - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Sharecroppers - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead.


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640254
Skating with the Statue of Liberty by Meyer, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 640254 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 710 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction French - United States - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Race relations - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.


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484987
Sky full of stars by Jackson, Linda Williams 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

BTSB #: 484987 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction Family life - Mississippi - Fiction Mississippi - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.


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406888
Songs of Stones River : a Civil War novel by Gunderson, Jessica 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2015)

BTSB #: 406888 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG Lexile: 600 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Stones River (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), Battle of, 1862-1863 - Fiction Murfreesboro (Tenn.) - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction Tennessee - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction


Summary: In late 1862 young James of Murfreesboro is a proud Southerner who takes on the responsibility of providing for his newly widowed mother and younger sister by working for his neighbor alongside the field slave Eli--an experience that calls into question many of his cherished beliefs about slavery and the War.


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068209
Story of the civil rights march on Washington for jobs and freedom in photographs [Story of the civil rights movement in photographs]by Aretha, David 

BTSB Prebound(Enslow, 2014)

BTSB #: 068209 Available

Dewey: 975.3/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 890

Subjects: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|d(1963 : - Washington, D.C.) Civil rights demonstrations - Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century


Summary: Discusses the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, including the causes for the march, how the march was organized and its leaders, the important speeches, and the impact it had on the Civil Rights Movement.


26.74 *

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130496
Strong voices : fifteen American speeches worth knowing by Bolden, Tonya 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2020)

BTSB #: 130496 Available

Dewey: 808.85/NAges: 8-12   


Subjects: American speeches


Summary: Fifteen of the speeches that shaped and defined freedom in America explained by an expert.


729827
Struttin' with some barbecue : Lil Hardin Armstrong becomes the first lady of jazz by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2018)

BTSB #: 729827 Available

Dewey: 781.6509/BAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900

Subjects: Armstrong, Lil Hardin,|d1898-1971 Armstrong, Louis,|d1901-1971 Jazz musicians


Summary: Lil Hardin and her man, Louis Armstrong, were musical royalty-inventing a new kind of jazz sound.


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131663
Summoner [Zora And Me]by Bond, Victoria 

Paperback(Candlewick Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 131663 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 810 F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale - Childhood and youth - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Eatonville (Fla.) - Fiction


Summary: For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville-America's first incorporated Black township-has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father-the showboating preacher John Hurston-decided to run against the town's trusted mayor, but there are other unsettling things afoot.


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254114
Susan Marcus bends the rules by Cutler, Jane 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2014)

BTSB #: 254114 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 LG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 880

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Toleration - Fiction Family life - Missouri - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Moving - Fiction Missouri - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: As a New York-to-Missouri transplant in 1943, ten-year-old Susan Marcus discovers a world of prejudice right in her own backyard and makes a small but courageous stand toward equality.


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Talking leaves by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 163290 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Sequoyah,|d1770?-1843 - Fiction Cherokee Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction


Summary: The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son.


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871083
They called us enemy by Takei, George 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf Productions, 2019)

BTSB #: 871083 Available

Dewey: 940.53/AAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 MG+RC: 5.2 6-8 Lexile: 680 GN

Subjects: Takei, George,|d1937- Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Japanese American - California - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - United States Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc Camp Tulelake (Calif.) California - History|y1850-1950


Summary: A stunning memoir in graphic novel format recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon--and America itself--in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.


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