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Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune.
A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Brent, Madeleine. Golden Urchin
Meg, an Irish heiress kidnapped from her parents at a young age and raised by a tribe of aborigines in the Australian outback, enters the world of Victorian England and discovers a legacy of danger.
Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander.
In 1945, a former combat nurse, back from the war and on her honeymoon, touches a boulder in an ancient Scottish ruin and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in 1743.
Heneghan, James.The Grave.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Houston, James. Running West
A Scottish clerk banished from his homeland meets a young Indian woman of the Dene Nation when they are sent to collect fur and valuable metals in the early 1700s in the Canadian North.
Ghost Fox
Kidnapped by the Abenaki Indians in colonial times, sixteen-year-old Sarah Wells gradually adopts the Abenaki way of life and must eventually choose between it and returning to the life from which she was taken.
Konigsburg, E.L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
Michael, Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams.
Murphy, Jim. The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier.
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher.
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Price, Eugenia. Savannah.
A young man of privilege arrives in Savannah, never dreaming of how the port would become involved in his expanding fortune or of how he would become involved in the intrigue of war and his love for two women.
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia's war
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
Keep Smiling Through.
A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.
The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim boy
A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Sword at Sunset.
A re-creation of the story of King Arthur, stripped of its medieval chivalric embellishments and based upon myth, legend, and modern archeological findings.
Thom, James Alexander. Follow the River.
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people.

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