HISTORICAL

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Call #           Author                Title                                                                                        Period

E                   Atwell                 Barn (1996)                                                                            18th c. to present

E                   Bedard                Emily (1992)                                                                           (Dickenson)

E                   Blegrad               Once Upon a Time and Grandma (1993)                              1920's

E                   Borden                The Little Ships:  Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk (1997)           WWII

E                   Boulton               Only Opal:  The Diary of a Young Girl (1994)                     1900's

E                   Bunting                The Blue and the Gray (1996)                                               Civil War

E                   Bunting                Dandelions (1995)                                                                  Frontier

E                   Bunting                Train to Somewhere (1996)                                                   late 1800’s

E                   Collier                 Backyard (1993)                                                                    prehist to present

E                   Compestine         The Story of Paper (2003)

E                   Corey                  Milly and the Macy’s Parade (2002)

E                   Cross                  Great Grandma Tells of Threshing Day (1992)                   1900's

E                   Fleming               A Big Cheese for the White House (1999)                           1801

E                   Hall                     Farm Summer (1994)                                                             1942

E                   Hall                     Lucy’s Summer (1995)                                                           1910 NH

E                   High                    City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888 (2004)                 1888

E                   Hiser                   Adventure of Charlie and his Wheat Straw Hat (1986)       Civil War

E                   Howard               Log Cabin Quilt (1996)                                                          Pioneer MI

E                   Hutchins              Tess (1995)                                                                             Pioneer

E                   Johnson               Rosamund (1994)                                                                   12th c. to present

E                   Johnston              Amber on the Mountain (1994)                                             Appalachian

E                   Jorgensen            In Flanders Field (2002)                                                        WWI

E                   Kay                     Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails (2000)                               frontier

E                   Kay                     Homespun Sarah (1993)                                                        1770

E                   Kinsey                 Bear that Heard Crying (1993)                                             1783

E                   Kinsey                 Wilderness  Cat (1992)                                                          1700's

E                   Kirkpatrick          Plowie:  A Story from the Prairie (1994)                               1850's

E                   Kroeger              Paperboy (1996)                                                                     1927 (J Dempsey)

E                   Levitin                 Nine for California (1996)                                                     1880’s frontier

E                   Lindbergh            Nobody Owns the Sky (1996)                                                1920 (B Coleman)

E                   Lyon                   Who Came Down that Road (1992)                                      Early American

E                   McCully              The Bobbin Girl (1996)                                                          1830’s

E                   McLerran            Year of the Ranch (1996)                                                      1919

E                   McPhail               Farm Boy’s Year (1992)                                                        1800’s

E                   Mitchell               Down Buttermilk Lane (1994)                                               Amish

E                   Mochizuki           Heroes (1995)                                                                        Vietnam War era

E                   Norworth            Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1993)                                  1949

E                   Priceman             How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (1994)

E                   Ransom               When the Whippoorwill Calls (1995)                                    Shenandoah area                                     

E                   Ray                     Shaker Boy (1994)                                                                 1850's

E                   Rogers                Our House (1993)                                                                  200 year span

E                   Rumford              Cloudmakers (1996)                                                              751 China

E                   Sanders               Floating House (1995)                                                           1815 Midwest

E                   Sanders               Here Comes the Mystery Man (1993)                                 1800's

E                   Sanders               Warm as Wool (1992)                                                            1803

E                   Schwartz             When Artie was Little (1996)                                                barnstorming

E                   Schertle               Maisie (1995)                                                                         1900 to present

E                   Shelby                 Homeplace (1995)                                                                  1810 to present

E                   Smucker              Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt (1996)                                   Mennonites

E                   Sorenson             New Hope (1995)                                                                   1885 to present

E                   Stanley                Joining the Boston Tea Party (2001)

E                   Stevenson            Don't You Know There's a War On? (1992)                        WWII

E                   Stutson                Prairie Primer A to Z (1996)                                                  frontier

E                   Tunnell                Mailing May (1997)                                                               1914

E                   Turner                 Red Flower Goes West (1999)                                              Overland Journey

E                   Uchida                Bracelet (1993)                                                                      Japanese intern.

E                   VanLeeuwen       Across the Wide Dark Sea (1995)                                        Mayflower

E                   VanLeeuwen       Nothing Here but Trees (1998)                                             OH wilderness

E                   Weller                 Matthew Wheelocks Wall (1992)                                         Colonial

E                   Wells                   Waiting for the Evening Star (1993)                                     1917 Vermont

E                   Wilder                 Going to Town (and others)                                                   Pioneeer

E                   Williams              Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon (1993)                            Pioneer

E                   Winnick               Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers (1996)

E                   Woodson            Comin on Home Soon                                                            WWII

E                   Yolen                  The Wolf Girls: an Unsolved Mystery from History (2001)           1920 India

                                                    

ER Antle, N                   Sam’s Wild West Show                               Showmen entertain and catch robbers

ER Benchley, N             George the Drummer Boy                           Start of the American Revolution

ER Benchley, N             Sam the Minute Man                                   Battle of Lexington

ER Brenner, B               Wagon Wheels                                             Family travels west for freeland

ER Brenner, B               Abe Lincoln’s Hat                                        Abe Lincoln’s adult life

ER Byars, B                   Hooray for the Golly Sisters (series)          Singing, dancing sisters travel out west

ER Coerr, E                   Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express             Adventures as a Pony Express rider

ER Hayward, L              The First Thanksgiving                                Describes the first Thanksgiving

ER Krensky, S               Christopher Columbus                                 Columbus’ first voyage to America

ER Kunhardt, E             Pompeii – Buried Alive                                The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

ER Levinson, N             Snowshoe Thomspon                                    Thompson skied a path for travellers

ER Levinson, N             Clara and the Bookwagon                            Farm life is enhanced by a book wagon

ER Monjo, F                 The Drinking Gourd                                     A boy and the underground railroad

ER Sandin, J                  Long Way to a New Land                            Famine sends a family to America

ER Sandin, J                  Long Way Westward                                    Immigrants arrive and move to Minn

 

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