Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - United States

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Deborah Wiles

It's 1962, and it seems everyone is living in fear. Twelve-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, DC, during the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst the pervasive threat of nuclear war, Franny must ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.I'm not kidding, he says.You should be, she says, we're 16.What about Romeo and Juliet?Shallow, confused, then dead.I love you, Park says.Wherefore ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2013

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I'd seen only in Gideon's stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels aband...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Bo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

The Fences Between Us - Audio (Dear A...

Kirby Larson

With this sweeping tale of life on the homefront during World War II, Newbery honor author Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, America finds itself unable to ignore the wa...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

Christy Collection Books 7-9: The Pri...

Catherine Marshall

IThe Princess Club: When Ruby Mae, Bessie, and Clara discover gold in Dead Man's Creek, they form an exclusive group, "The Princess Club." Christy watches in dismay as Cutter Gap is torn apart by greed and envy. Can she find...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Jefferson's Sons

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave childrenBeverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even v...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2011

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

Kristin Levine

The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fi sh too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the difference...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

Christy Collection Books 1-3: The Bri...

Catherine Marshall

The Bridge to Cutter Gap: Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

Christy Collection Books 10-12: Stage...

Catherine Marshall

IStage Fright: As Christy's students are preparing for a school play, she reveals her dream to act on stage. Little does she know that Dr. MacNeill's aunt is the artistic director of the Knoxville Theater. Before long, just as Christy...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

Christy Collection Books 4-6: Midnigh...

Catherine Marshall

Midnight Rescue: Christy Huddleston, the new school teacher in Cutter Gap, thought her biggest problem was going to be choosing between the charming country doctor, Neil MacNeill, and the handsome minister, David Grantland. But Christ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

Rush Revere and the First Patriots: T...

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Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners. In Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, he created the character of a fearless middle sch...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

Navigating Early

Clare Vanderpool

At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the nu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2013
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