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In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn.
It's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York—a move that is both scary and exciting. As mistress of the large Victorian estate on...
It's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York—a move that is both scary and exciting. As mistress of the large Victorian estate on...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free Black, safe from rebel soldiers.
10) The staircase
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Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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In 1878, after her mother's death on the way west, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Santa Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider to be a miracle.
11) A stitch in time
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.
12) The blue door
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Biographical novel of the 18th-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England as a slave; after publishing her first poem as a teenager, she gained renown throughout the colonies as an important Black American poet.
17) Amelia's war
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
19) Broken days
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
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