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Hall Summer 2001 Reading Lists
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Adventure |
Fantasy |
HISTORICAL FICTION
| Mysteries |
Realistic Fiction
| Nonfiction/Biography
RECOMMENDED HISTORICAL
FICTION
Experience the life of another time. Great characters caught up in
incredible historic events and times.
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
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COMMENTS
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Armstrong, William
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Sounder
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1930’s America
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Blackwood, Gary
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Shakespeare Stealer
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1500’s
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Clapp, Patricia
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The Witches’ Children
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Salem witch trials
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Collier, James Lincoln
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With Every Drop of Blood
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1860’s America — Civil War
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Curtis, Christopher
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Paul Bud, Not Buddy
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
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1930’s America
1963 America
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Cushman, Karen
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Catherine, Called Birdy
The Midwife’s Apprentice
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
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Middle Ages
Middle Ages
California Gold Rush
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Fleischman, Paul
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Bull Run
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Civil War
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Forbes, Esther
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Johnny Tremain
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Revolutionary War
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Fox, Paula
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Slave Dancer
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1840’s slave trade
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Fritz, Jean
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Early Thunder
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Revolutionary War
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
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Lily’s Crossing
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1940’s World War II
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Greene, Bette
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Summer of My German Soldier
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1940’s World War II
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Gregory, Kristiana
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Earthquake at Dawn
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Hesse, Karen
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Out of the Dust
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
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1930’s America
1860’s Civil War
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Hunt, Irene
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Across Five Aprils
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1860’s Civil War
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Karr, Kathleen
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Skullduggery
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1800’s Europe
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Kehret, Peg
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The Secret Journey
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1800’s – slave trade
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Konigsburg, E. L.
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Lasky, Kathryn
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Beyond the Burning Time
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Salem witch trials
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Levine, Gail Carson
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Dave at Night
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1930’s
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Levitin, Sonia
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Silver Days
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World War II
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Lowry, Lois
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Number the Stars
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1940’s World War II
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Magorian, Michelle
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Goodnight Mr. Tom
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1940’s World War II
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Mazer, Harry
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The Last Mission
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1940’s World War II
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Meyer, Carolyn
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Mary, Bloody Mary
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1500’s England: Mary I, Queen of England
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Mitchell, Margaret
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Gone With the Wind
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1860’s Civil War
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Myers, Walter Dean
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Fallen Angels
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1960’s Vietnam War
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Namioka, Lensey
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
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China
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Orgel, Doris
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Devil in Vienna
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1940’s World War II
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Orlev, Uri
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The Island on Bird Street
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1940’s World War II
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Osborne, Mary Pope
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Adeline Falling Star
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American Old West
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Paulsen, Gary
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Soldier’s Heart
Mr. Tucket
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Civil War
Old West
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Peck, Richard
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A Long Way From Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
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1930’s America
1930’s America
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Rinaldi, Ann
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Wolf By the Ears
Finishing Becca
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Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings
Revolutionary War: Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a
maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events
that lead to General Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the American
forces during the Revolutionary War.
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Salisbury, Graham
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Under the Blood Red Sun
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1940’s World War II
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
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Gib Rides Home
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1908 Orphanges
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Speare, Elizabeth
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Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sign of the Beaver
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Salem witch trials
1700’s
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Sutcliff, Rosemary
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The Witch’s Brat
Frontier Wolf
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12th Century England
Roman England
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Taylor, Mildred
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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1930’s America
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Temple, Frances
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The Ramsey Scallop
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1299 Crusades
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Uchida, Yoshiko
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Journey to Topaz
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1940’s World War II
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Urban, Betsy
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Waiting for Deliverance
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1790’s
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Yep, Laurence
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Dragonwings
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1906 San Francisco
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Yolen, Jane
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The Devil’s Arithmetic
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1940’s World War II
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Various authors
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Dear America diaries
My America diaries
Royal diaries
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updated
16-Jan-2005
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