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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors for Kids
Historical Fiction for Kids
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors for Kids
Historical Fiction for Kids
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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
7) Skylark
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
12) Dandelions
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Young Zoe searches for a way to make her mother happy after the family moves to its new home in the Nebraska Territory.
13) May B: a novel
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
15) Woods runner
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From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
16) The quilt walk
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Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.