Long way from Chicago : a novel in stories [Puffin Modern Classics]by Peck, Richard 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2004)

BTSB #: 707422 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Illinois - Fiction

Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes [Puffin Modern Classics]by Coerr, Eleanor 

Paperback(Puffin, 2004)

BTSB #: 225647 Available

Dewey: 362.1/BAges: 8-12   


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Subjects: Sasaki, Sadako,|d1943-1955 Atomic bomb - Physiological effect Hiroshima-shi (Japan)|yBombardment, 1945

Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, a child in Hiroshima races against time to verify a legend will help her become healthy.

To Be A Slave [Puffin Modern Classics]by Lester, Julius 

Paperback(Puffin)

BTSB #: 566101 Available

Dewey: 306.3/NAges: 12-16   


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Summary: A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Twenty-one balloons [Puffin Modern Classics]by Pene du Bois, William 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2005)

BTSB #: 291906 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


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Subjects: Ballooning - Fiction Hot air balloons - Fiction Historical fiction

Summary: Three weeks after leaving San Francisco in a balloon to fly across the Pacific, Professor Sherman is picked up in the Atlantic clinging to wreckage.