| Chita's Christmas Tree |
Howard, Elizabeth |
1.3 |
E |
early 1900s |
Baltimore |
| Hooray for the Golly Sisters |
Byars, Betsy |
1.8 |
ER |
Pioneer -- West |
funny |
| Gold Fever |
Kay, Verla |
2.4 |
E |
California Gold Rush |
man from Tennessee seeks his fortune |
| Molly's Surprise |
Tripp, Valerie |
2.5 |
F |
WWII -- homefront |
American Girl Book |
| Three Names |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
2.6 |
E |
Pioneer -- Prairie |
dog story |
| Red Fox and His Canoe |
Benchley, Nathaniel |
2.6 |
ER |
Native America |
|
| Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers |
Winnick, Karen B. |
2.7 |
E |
Civil War |
Based true story why Lincoln grew beard |
| Sam the Minuteman |
Benchley, Nathaniel |
2.9 |
ER |
Revolutionary War |
The Battle of Lexington and Concord |
| George the Drummer Boy |
Benchley, Nathaniel |
2.9 |
ER |
Revolutionary War |
British drummer boy's view of the first battle |
| Nine for California |
Levitin, Sonia |
2.9 |
E |
California Gold Rush |
|
| Amber on the Mountain |
Johnston, Tony |
3.0 |
E |
Appalachia |
|
| The Drinking Gourd |
Monjo, F.N. |
3.0 |
ER |
Underground RR |
|
| Smoky Night # |
Bunting, Eve |
3.0 |
E |
Los Angelos |
LA riots after Rodney King |
| Taking Charge |
Levitin, Sonia |
3.0 |
E |
California Gold Rush |
Sequel to Nine for California |
| A Lion to Guard Us |
Bulla, Clyde Robert |
3.1 |
F |
Colonization |
Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia |
| Eddie's Green Thumb |
Haywood, Carolyn |
3.1 |
F |
1950s |
|
| "B" is for Betsy |
Haywood, Carolyn |
3.1 |
F |
1950s |
|
| The Babe and I |
Adler, David |
3.2 |
E |
Great Depression |
boy meets Babe Ruth |
| When Jessie Came Across the Sea |
Hest, Amy |
3.2 |
E |
Immigration |
Jessie immigrates to America from Russia |
| Leah's Pony |
Friedrich, Elizabeth |
3.3 |
E |
Great Depression |
The Dust Bowl years in Oklahoma |
| Love You, Soldier |
Hest, Amy |
3.4 |
F |
WWII -- Homefront |
|
| Adaline Falling Star |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
3.5 |
F |
Pioneers |
Kit Carson's daughter |
| The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree |
Houston, Gloria |
3.5 |
E |
|
|
| A New Coat for Anna |
Ziefert, Harriet |
3.5 |
E |
post WWII |
|
| Dandelions |
Bunting, Eve |
3.5 |
E |
Pioneers -- prairie |
living in a soddie |
| Kirsten's Surprise |
Shaw, Janet |
3.5 |
F |
Pioneers -- prairie |
American Girl Book |
| Mailing May |
Tunnell, Michael |
3.6 |
E |
Pioneer -- Idaho |
May is "mailed" over the mountains |
| Eddie and the Fire Engine |
Haywood, Carolyn |
3.6 |
F |
1950s |
|
| Eddie and Gardenia |
Haywood, Carolyn |
3.6 |
F |
1950s |
|
| Grandfather's Journey # |
Say, Allen |
3.6 |
E |
circa WWII |
Say's Grandfather's life in Japan and U.S. |
| Strawberry Girl * |
Lenski, Lois |
3.6 |
F |
early 1900s Florida |
|
| Skylark |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
3.6 |
F |
Pioneers -- prairie |
sequel to Sarah Plain and Tall |
| Mirette on the High Wire # |
McCully, Emily Ann |
3.6 |
E |
France |
Mirette learns to walk a tightrope |
| Dave at Night ** |
Levine, Gail Carson |
3.6 |
F |
Harlem Renaissance |
|
| Boom Town |
Levitin, Sonia |
3.7 |
E |
California Gold Rush |
Sequel to Nine for California |
| Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X |
Deedy, Carmen |
3.7 |
E |
WWII -- Denmark |
|
| Clown of God |
De Paola, Tomie |
3.7 |
E |
Renaissance |
Christmas story |
| Uncle Jed's Barbershop |
Mitchell, Margaree |
3.8 |
E |
Great Depression |
|
| Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
Hopkinson, Deborah |
3.8 |
E |
Underground RR |
|
| Prairie School |
Lenski, Lois |
3.9 |
F |
mid 1900s |
South Dakota -- children stranded at school |
| Night of the Full Moon |
Whelan, Gloria |
3.9 |
F |
Pioneers |
Great North Woods |
| Sarah Plain and Tall * |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
3.9 |
F |
Pioneers -- prairie |
Sarah is a mail-order bride |
| The Rag Coat |
Mills, Lauren |
3.9 |
E |
Great Depression |
Appalachia coal mines |
| The Whipping Boy * |
Fleischman, Sid |
3.9 |
F |
Middle Ages |
A prince and pauper story |
| The Gardener ## |
Stewart, Sarah |
3.9 |
E |
Great Depression |
letter format |
| Weaver's Daughter |
Bradley, Kimberly |
4.0 |
F |
Pioneers |
Early settlement in Tennessee wilderness |
| The Sign of the Beaver ** |
Speare, Elizabeth |
4.0 |
F |
Colonial America |
Maine wilderness -- survival story |
| Stone Fox |
Gardiner, John |
4.0 |
F |
Pioneers |
boy enters sled race to save farm |
| Who Owns the Sun? |
Chbosky, Stacy |
4.1 |
E |
Slavery |
|
| Samantha's Surprise |
Schur, Maxine |
4.1 |
F |
Victorian America |
American Girl Book |
| True Heart |
Moss, Marissa |
4.1 |
E |
WWII -- homefront |
Trains |
| The Little House |
Burton, Virginia |
4.2 |
E |
Passage of time |
community changes around the little house |
| The Bear that Heard Crying |
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie |
4.2 |
E |
Colonial America |
based on true story of survival |
| The Bobbin Girl |
McCully, Emily Arnold |
4.2 |
F |
Industrial Revolution |
Girl works in the New England Mills |
| Maria's Comet |
Hopkinson, Deborah |
4.2 |
E |
Late 1800s |
Fictionalized account of life of Maria Mitchell |
| Mary on Horseback |
Wells, Rosemary |
4.2 |
F |
post WWI |
Applachian Mountains of Kentucky |
| Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride |
Ryan, Pam |
4.2 |
E |
Great Depression |
Amelia Earhard and Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Angels in the Dust |
Raven, Margot |
4.2 |
E |
Great Depression |
Dust Bowl |
| Henry and the Paper Route |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.3 |
F |
1950s |
sequel to Henry Huggins |
| Honus and Me |
Gutman, Dan |
4.3 |
F |
early 1900s |
Baseball fantasy, meet Honus Wagner |
| Graveyard Girl |
Myers, Anna |
4.3 |
F |
1878 Memphis |
Yellow Fever Epidemic |
| Nory Ryan's Song ** |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
4.3 |
F |
Irish Potato Famine |
Immigration to America |
| Jackie and Me |
Gutman, Dan |
4.3 |
F |
1950s |
Baseball fantasy, meet Jackie Robinson |
| Babe and Me |
Gutman, Dan |
4.3 |
F |
Great Depression |
Baseball fantasy, meet Babe Ruth |
| Henry Huggins |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.3 |
F |
1950s |
|
| In My Father's House |
Rinaldi, Ann |
4.4 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| The Keeping Quilt |
Polacco, Patricia |
4.4 |
E |
Passage of Time |
Memoir of quilt passed down through family |
| Belle Prater's Boy ** |
White, Ruth |
4.4 |
F |
|
|
| Fever, 1793 |
Anderson, Laurie |
4.4 |
F |
Early United States |
1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia |
| Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain |
Burch, Robert |
4.4 |
F |
Great Depression |
Appalachia |
| A Band of Angels |
Hopkinson, Deborah |
4.4 |
E |
|
Jubilee Singers of Fisk University |
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
Holt, Kimberly Willis |
4.5 |
F |
Vietnam War |
Homefront |
| Baby in a Basket |
Rand, Gloria |
4.5 |
E |
Pioneers -- Alaska |
|
| A Year Down Yonder * |
Peck, Richard |
4.5 |
F |
Great Depression |
Rural Illinois |
| The Road to Memphis |
Taylor, Mildred |
4.5 |
F |
Great Depression |
Mississippi African-American family |
| Number the Stars * |
Lowry, Lois |
4.5 |
F |
WWII -- Denmark |
Danes save many Jewish citizens from Nazis |
| Ox-Cart Man # |
Hall, Donald |
4.5 |
E |
1800s New England |
|
| Otis Spofford |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.6 |
F |
1950s |
|
| My Louisiana Sky |
Holt, Kimberly Willis |
4.6 |
F |
late 1950s |
Louisiana |
| Fair Weather |
Peck, Richard |
4.7 |
F |
Great Depression |
Chicago |
| Our Only May Amelia ** |
Holm, Jennifer |
4.7 |
F |
Pioneers |
Washington State -- the only girl of 8 children |
| On the Banks of Plum Creek ** |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
4.7 |
F |
Pioneers |
Little House on the Prairie series #4 |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
Lord, Betty Bao |
4.7 |
F |
late 1950s |
Chinese Immigrants in New York |
| Little House on the Praire |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
4.8 |
F |
Pioneers -- prairie |
Little House on the Prairie series #3 |
| The Great Brain |
Fitzgerald, John |
4.8 |
F |
Early 1900s Utah |
|
| She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head |
Lasky, Kathryn |
4.9 |
E |
|
based on true story of the Audobon Society |
| Ellen Tebbits |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.9 |
F |
1950s |
|
| Warm as Wool |
Sanders, Scott Russell |
4.9 |
E |
Pioneer -- Ohio |
|
| The House of Sixty Fathers ** |
De Jong, Meindert |
4.9 |
F |
circa WWII |
Japanese Invasion of China |
| Dovey Coe |
Dowell, Frances |
4.9 |
F |
|
Appalachia -- mystery |
| Betsy-Tacy |
Lovelace, Maud |
4.9 |
F |
early 1900s |
|
| All-of-a-Kind Family |
Taylor, Sidney |
4.9 |
F |
early 1900s |
New York City -- adventures of 5 sisters |
| Timothy of the Cay |
Taylor, Theodore |
5.0 |
F |
Circa WWII |
Prequel/Sequel to The Cay |
| Miracles on Maple Hill * |
Sorensen, Virginia |
5.0 |
F |
post WW |
|
| Shades of Gray |
Reeder, Carolyn |
5.0 |
F |
Post Civil War |
|
| The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods |
Cameron, Ann |
5.0 |
F |
1950s |
|
| Weasel |
DeFelice, Cynthia |
5.0 |
F |
Pioneers |
Great Villian -- adventure |
| The Land |
Taylor, Mildred |
5.0 |
F |
Great Depression |
Mississippi |
| Sarah Bishop |
O'Dell, Scott |
5.0 |
F |
Revolutionary War |
survival story |
| A Jar of Dreams |
Uchida, Yoshiko |
5.1 |
F |
Great Depression |
California |
| A Gathering of Days * |
Blos, Joan |
5.1 |
F |
1830-1832 |
New England girl's journal |
| The Middle Moffat |
Estes, Eleanor |
5.2 |
F |
|
|
| The Shakespeare Stealer |
Blackwood, Gary |
5.2 |
F |
Elizabethan England |
|
| Summer Soldiers |
Lindquist, Susan |
5.2 |
F |
WWI -- Homefront |
|
| Charley Skedaddle |
Beatty, Patricia |
5.2 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| The Matchlock Gun * |
Edmonds, Walter D. |
5.2 |
F |
War of 1812 |
|
| Preacher's Boy |
Paterson, Katherine |
5.2 |
F |
1899 Vermont |
|
| Out of the Dust * |
Hesse, Karen |
5.3 |
F |
Great Depression |
Dust Bowl -- written in free verse |
| The Long Winter ** |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.3 |
F |
Pioneers |
Little House on the Prairie Series |
| Rachel's Journal |
Moss, Marissa |
5.3 |
F |
Colonial America |
Journal format |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle ** |
Avi |
5.3 |
F |
1832 |
Transatlantic Voyage -- Mutiny on board |
| Lily's Crossing ** |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
5.3 |
F |
WWII -- Homefront |
|
| Little House in the Big Woods ** |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.3 |
F |
Pioneers |
Little House on the Prairie Series # 1 |
| Little Town on the Prairie |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.4 |
F |
Pioneers |
Little House on the Prairie Series |
| Jake's Orphan |
Brooke, Peggy |
5.4 |
F |
Orphan Trains |
|
| The Upstairs Room ** |
Reiss, Johanna |
5.4 |
F |
WWII |
Hiding from the Nazis |
| The King's Fifth ** |
O'Dell, Scott |
5.5 |
F |
1500s |
|
| Shadow of a Bull * |
Wojciechowska, Maia |
5.5 |
F |
|
Bull fighting |
| Secret of the Andes * |
Clark, Ann Nolan |
5.5 |
F |
Peru |
|
| Jason's Gold |
Hobbs, Will |
5.5 |
F |
Klondike Gold Rush |
Adventure -- survival |
| Snow Treasure |
McSwiggan, Marie |
5.5 |
F |
WWII -- Norway |
adventure |
| A Long Way from Chicago ** |
Peck, Richard |
5.6 |
F |
Great Depression |
Rural Illinois |
| Soldier's Heart |
Paulsen, Gary |
5.6 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| These Happy Golden Years ** |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.6 |
F |
Pioneeers |
Little House on the Prairie Series |
| Lyddie |
Paterson, Katherine |
5.6 |
F |
Industrial Revolution |
girl working in New England mills |
| Caddie Woodlawn * |
Brink, Carol Ryrie |
5.6 |
F |
Pioneers |
Wisconsin |
| Bigger |
Calvert, Patricia |
5.7 |
F |
post Civil War |
boy and dog search for missing father |
| Farmer Boy |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.7 |
F |
Pioneers |
Almanzo's story -- Little House on the Praire |
| Matilda Bone |
Cushman, Karen |
5.7 |
F |
Middle Ages |
pious Matilda learns about real life |
| Bud, Not Buddy * |
Curtis, Christopher |
5.9 |
F |
Great Depression |
Michigan |
| The Bronze Bow * |
Speare, Elizabeth George |
5.9 |
F |
Ancient Rome |
|
| Ghost Canoe |
Hobbs, Will |
5.9 |
F |
Frontier Oregon |
mystery -- adventure |
| The Good Master * |
Seredy, Kate |
5.9 |
F |
|
|
| Understood Betsy |
Fisher, Dorothy |
6.0 |
F |
|
|
| Behind Rebel Lines |
Reit, Seymour |
6.0 |
F |
Civil War |
Emma Edmonds spies for the Union |
| The Midwife's Apprentice * |
Cushman, Karen |
6.0 |
F |
Middle Ages |
|
| Amos Fortune, Freeman* |
Yates, Elizabeth |
6.0 |
F |
Slavery |
Slave buys his freedom |
| Emily's Runaway Imagination |
Cleary, Beverly |
6.1 |
F |
1920s |
Oregon Farm life |
| Shakespeare's Scribe |
Blackwood, Gary |
6.1 |
F |
Elizabethan England |
|
| My Brother Sam is Dead ** |
Collier, James |
6.2 |
F |
Revolutionary War |
|
| By the Shores of Silver Lake |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
6.2 |
F |
Pioneers |
Little House on the Prarie Series |
| One-eyed Cat ** |
Fox, Paula |
6.2 |
F |
1920's |
|
| Banner in the Sky * |
Ullman, James |
6.3 |
F |
|
Mountain climbing in the Alps |
| Sing Down the Moon |
O'Dell, Scott |
6.3 |
F |
Native America |
|
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond * |
Speare, Elizabeth George |
6.3 |
F |
Colonial America |
New England Witch Trials |
| Blue Willow * |
Gates, Doris |
6.3 |
F |
|
Migrant workers |
| The Moffats |
Estes, Eleanor |
6.4 |
F |
|
|
| Catherine, Called Birdie |
Cushman, Karen |
6.4 |
F |
Middle Ages |
Journal of Catherine, trying to avoid marriage |
| Homer Price |
McCloskey, Robert |
6.5 |
F |
|
|
| The Master Puppeteer |
Paterson, Katherine |
6.5 |
F |
Feudal Japan |
|
| Thimble Summer * |
Enright, Elizabeth |
6.5 |
F |
|
|
| Roller Skates * |
Sawyer, Ruth |
6.5 |
F |
|
|
| The Cay |
Taylor, Theodore |
6.6 |
F |
WWII |
Survival on a small Carribean Island |
| Ben and Me |
Lawson, Robert |
6.6 |
F |
Colonial America |
a mouse tells of life with Ben Franklin |
| Dragonwings |
Yep, Laurence |
6.6 |
F |
1909 California |
Chinese immigrants build flying machine |
| A Single Shard * |
Park, Linda Sue |
6.6 |
F |
15th Century Korea |
|
| Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze * |
Lewis, Elizabeth |
6.7 |
F |
1920s China |
|
| And Now Miquel * |
Krumgold, Joseph |
6.8 |
F |
|
|
| The Light in the Forest |
Richter, Conrad |
6.8 |
F |
Colonial America |
4 year old boy adopted by Indians |
| Let the Circle be Unbroken |
Taylor, Mildred |
6.8 |
F |
Great Depression |
African American family in Mississippi |
| Gone-Away Lake * |
Enright, Elizabeth |
7.0 |
F |
|
|
| The Hundred Dresses ** |
Estes, Eleanor |
7.0 |
F |
Great Depression |
|
| The Door in the Wall * |
de Angeli, Marguerite |
7.0 |
F |
Middle Ages |
|
| The Slave Dancer * |
Fox, Paula |
7.0 |
F |
Slave Trade |
|
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry * |
Taylor, Mildred |
7.1 |
F |
Great Depression |
Mississippi |
| Rifles for Watie * |
Keith, Harold |
7.3 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| The White Stag * |
Seredy, Kate |
7.4 |
F |
Hun Migration |
from Asia into Europe |
| Where the Lilies Bloom |
Cleaver, Vera |
7.4 |
F |
|
Appalachia |
| Anne of Green Gables |
Montgomery, L. M. |
7.4 |
F |
early 1900s |
St. Edward's Island, Canada |
| Adam of the Road * |
Gray, Elizabeth |
7.4 |
F |
Middle Ages |
|
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
7.4 |
F |
|
|
| The Secret Garden |
Burnett, Frances |
7.5 |
F |
Victorian England |
|
| Incident at Hawk's Hill ** |
Eckert, Allan |
7.5 |
F |
|
|
| The Red Badge of Courage |
Crane, Stephen |
7.6 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| A Little Princess |
Burnett, Frances |
7.6 |
F |
Victorian England |
|
| Hitty: Her First Hundred Years * |
Field, Rachel |
7.8 |
F |
passage of time |
memoir of a doll |
| I, Juan de Pareja * |
de Trevino, Elizabeth |
7.9 |
F |
Spain |
Slave to the Spanish painter Velasquez |
| Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates |
Dodge, Mary Mapes |
8.0 |
F |
Holland |
|
| My Antonia |
Cather, Willa |
8.0 |
F |
Pioneers -- prairie |
|
| All Quiet on the Western Front |
Remarque, Erich |
8.0 |
F |
WWI |
|
| Johnny Tremain * |
Forbes, Esther |
8.1 |
F |
Revolutionary War |
|
| The Trumpeter of Krakow * |
Kelly, Eric |
8.1 |
F |
15th Century Poland |
|
| Heidi |
Spyri, Johanna |
8.1 |
F |
Swiss Alps |
|
| The Good Earth |
Buck, Pearl |
8.2 |
F |
China |
|
| Little Women |
Alcott, Louisa |
8.6 |
F |
circa Civil War |
|
| Across Five Aprils ** |
Hunt, Irene |
8.9 |
F |
Civil War |
|
| The Virginian |
Wister, Owen |
9.0 |
F |
|
|
| The Great Gatsby |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
9.1 |
F |
Roaring 20s |
|
| A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens, Charles |
9.2 |
F |
French Revolution |
|
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Nordhoff, Charles |
9.5 |
F |
|
|
| Great Expectations |
Dickens, Charles |
9.5 |
F |
Industrial Revolution |
England |
| David Copperfield |
Dickens, Charles |
9.8 |
F |
Industrial Revolution |
England |
| Wuthering Heights |
Bronte, Emily |
9.9 |
F |
Victorian England |
|
| Silas Marner |
Eliot, George |
10.3 |
F |
|
|
| Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
10.4 |
F |
Victorian England |
|
| The Last of the Mohicans |
Cooper, James |
11.0 |
F |
|
|
| Pride and Prejudice |
Austen, Jane |
11.3 |
F |
Victorian England |
|
| The Scarlet Letter |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
11.5 |
F |
Colonial America |
|