Book for black-eyed Susan [Tales of young Americans series]by Young, Judy 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2011)

BTSB #: 974411 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-10   
AR: 3.5 LG RC: 3.7 K-2 Lexile: 580

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Books and reading - Fiction Sisters - Fiction

Summary: Cora and her newborn sister suffer their mother's death on the Oregon Trail and are separated, but she stitches a book of their journey and family.

Fist for Joe Louis and me [Tales of young Americans series]by Noble, Trinka Hakes 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 677956 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 610

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Boxing - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Germans - Michigan - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In Depression-era Detroit, Gordy and Ira, one African-American and one German-Jewish, bond over a shared interest in boxing as America awaits the rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

Marty's mission : an Apollo 11 story [Tales of young Americans series]by Young, Judy 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 974457 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 790

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) - Fiction Project Apollo (U.S.) - Fiction Space flight to the moon - Fiction

Summary: As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move. Based on actual events.

Rettie and the Ragamuffin Parade : a Thanksgiving story [Tales of young Americans series]by Noble, Trinka Hakes 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 678188 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.3 LG Lexile: 800

Genres: Holidays Historical Fiction

Subjects: Poverty - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Thanksgiving Day - Fiction Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.