Jones Watcher in the Piney Woods (Am Girl History Mystery) Lasky True North: Novel of the Underground Railroad Lester This Strange, New Feeling (stories about slavery and freedom); To Be a Slave (former slaves tell of their lives) Lyons Dear Ellen Bee: Scrapbook of Two Union Spies; Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs Meader Phantom of the Blockade (ship brings supplies to Lee's army) Reeder Across the Lines (two different views of slavery) Smucker Runaway to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad Underground to Canada (two girls escape to Canada) The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (based on true story); Run the Blockade (boy Wisler works on British ship; NC setting) Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates Stories of Westward Expansion Annixter Wagon Scout (going west on a wagon train) Avi The Barn (settling the Oregon Territory) The Spirit is Willing (girl grows up in Arizona mining town) Baker Brink Caddie Woodlawn; Magical Melons (girl growing up in Wisconsin) Cushman The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (girl in California mining town) Durbin The Journal of Sam Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker Fleischman Bandit's Moon (an orphan is protected by a bandit) Gregory Across the Wide and Lonesome Prarie: Oregon Trail Diary; The Great Railroad Race: Utah Territory 1868; Jenny of the Tetons (Idaho Territory, 1875) Holm Boston Jane (1854; long sea voyage to Washington Territory)
Jones Watcher in the Piney Woods (Am Girl History Mystery) Lasky True North: Novel of the Underground Railroad Lester This Strange, New Feeling (stories about slavery and freedom); To Be a Slave (former slaves tell of their lives) Lyons Dear Ellen Bee: Scrapbook of Two Union Spies; Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs Meader Phantom of the Blockade (ship brings supplies to Lee's army) Reeder Across the Lines (two different views of slavery) Smucker Runaway to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad Underground to Canada (two girls escape to Canada) Wisler The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (based on true story); Run the Blockade (boy works on British ship; NC setting) Yates Amos Fortune, Free Man Stories of Westward Expansion Annixter Wagon Scout (going west on a wagon train) Avi The Barn (settling the Oregon Territory) Baker The Spirit is Willing (girl grows up in Arizona mining town) Brink Caddie Woodlawn; Magical Melons (girl growing up in Wisconsin) Cushman The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (girl in California mining town) Durbin The Journal of Sam Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker Fleischman Bandit's Moon (an orphan is protected by a bandit) Gregory Across the Wide and Lonesome Prarie: Oregon Trail Diary; The Great Railroad Race: Utah Territory 1868; Jenny of the Tetons (Idaho Territory, 1875) Holm Boston Jane (1854; long sea voyage to Washington Territory)
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