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Historical Fiction
A Long Way from Chicago
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Joey and his sister, Mary Alice, travel from their home in Chicago to their grandmother’s small town. They certainly don’t expect the crazy adventures they encounter in Chicago. Each summer trip to grandma's gets funnier and more surprising than the year before.
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Color Me Dark
Color Me Dark by Patricia McKissack
Eleven year old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919. Her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Dave at Night
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
When orphaned, Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for boys where he is treated cruelly; he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music and cultured filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.
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