Mary and the Trail of Tears : a Cherokee removal survival story [Girls Survive]by Rogers, Andrea L. 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 762088 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 610

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 - Fiction Cherokee Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Southern States - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Georgia - History|y19th century - Fiction Southern States - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home. She does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

Millie and the great drought : a Dust Bowl survival story [Girls Survive]by Deen, Natasha 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2023)

BTSB #: 268368 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 530 F&P: T

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 - Fiction Droughts - United States - Fiction Dust storms - United States - Fiction Family life - Fiction Internal migration - Fiction Cimarron County (Okla.) - History - Fiction Oklahoma - History|y20th century - Fiction California - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Millie's family is hesitant to leave the farm their family has owned for generations, but after Black Sunday they leave Oklahoma for California where they find a new kind of stuggle.

Molly and the Twin Towers : a 9/11 survival story [Girls Survive]by Fleck, Jessika 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 334389 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG Lexile: 600

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Gay fathers - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home.

Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children's Crusade Survival Story [Girls Survive]by Butler-Ngugi, Anitra 

Paperback(Stone Arch Books)

BTSB #: 179034 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


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Summary: It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it’s a price she is willing to pay so that all people can have a say in their government.

Noelle at sea : a Titanic survival story [Girls Survive]by Smith, Nikki Shannon 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2019)

BTSB #: 827144 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 590

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) - Fiction Shipwrecks - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: In 1912, thirteen-year-old Noelle and her parents are aboard the Titanic, when she is awoken to a sinking ship and must evacuate to a lifeboat with her mother, but first she has to find and help her new friend, Pauline, who is in steerage.

Rebecca rides for freedom : an American Revolution survival story [Girls Survive]by Berne, Emma Carlson 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 114877 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 650

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Courage - Fiction Pennsylvania - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction

Summary: When a Philadelphia girl intercepts a message about an impending British attack against her father's regiment, commanded by General Washington, in White Marsh, she travels alone by horseback to warn the Patriot army.

Sarah journeys west : an Oregon Trail survival story [Girls Survive]by Smith, Nikki Shannon 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 827206 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 610 F&P: S

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Overland journeys to the Pacific - Fiction Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Family life - West (U.S.) - Fiction Oregon National Historic Trail - Fiction California - Gold discoveries - Fiction West (U.S.) - History|y1848-1860 - Fiction

Summary: In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness, and the racism of others in the group there may be a better life waiting for them at the end of the trail.

Tara and the towering wave : an Indian Ocean tsunami survival story [Girls Survive]by Oxtra, Cristina 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 694977 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 630

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 - Fiction Tsunamis - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Thai Americans - Fiction Thailand - Fiction

Summary: While vacationing in Thailand for the holidays, Tara and her mother are thrown into survival mode when a massive tsunami sweeps through Phuket.