 | Women and Girls in American History |
| Stories and novels of history from a girl's point of view.
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Picture Books (JE)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Boulton | Only Opal: The Diary of a Young Girl An adaptation of the writings of Opal Whiteley in which she describes her love for nature and her life in an Oregon lumber camp in the early 1900s. (32 pp.) | JE Boulton |
| Fleming | Boxes for Katje After a young Dutch girl thanks her American friend for the care package sent after World War II, she receives increasingly larger packages. (36 pp.) | JE Fleming |
| Houston | My Great-Aunt Arizona An Appalachian girl grows up to be a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren. (32 pp.) | JE Houston |
| Karr | Mama Went to Jail for the Vote Susan Elizabeth's mother ends up in jail after picketing the White House for the right for women to vote. (30 pp.) | JE Karr |
| Thomas | I Have Heard of a Land Describes the joys and hardships experienced by an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma territory. (32 pp.) | JE Thomas |
| Van Leeuwen | Going West Follows a family's migration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas. (48 pp.) | JE Van Leeuwen |
| Yolen | Letting Swift River Go Sally Jane experiences the drowning of the river and her town to establish a reservoir in rural Massachusetts. (32 pp.) | JE Yolen |
Easy Readers (JE ER)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Coerr | The Big Balloon Race Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it. (62 pp.) | JE ER Coerr |
| Levinson | Clara and the Bookwagon Clara's dreams are fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits the family farm with the country's first traveling library. (64 pp.) | JE ER Levinson |
| Roop | Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lightkeeper from returning to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter must keep the lights burning by herself. (40 pp.) | JE ER Roop |
| Walker | The 18 Penny Goose Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding British soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. (61 pp.) | JE ER Walker |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Brady | Toliver's Secret During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. (166 pp.) | J Brady |
| Cutler | My Wartime Summers Over four memorable summers, Ellen and her friends follow the war taking place far away but still touching their lives. (152 pp.) | J Cutler |
| Dorris | Morning Girl Morning Girl and her brother take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America as they witness the arrival of the first Europeans. (74 pp.) | J Dorris |
| Fritz | The Cabin Faced West Ann longs for her old life but learns to be proud of her new home in the wilderness. (124 pp.) | J Fritz |
| Goldin | Fire!: The Beginnings of the Labor Movement In 1911, Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, where her older sister works. (54 pp.) | J Goldin |
| Lai | Inside Out & Back Again Through a series of poems, ten-year-old Ha chronicles her life-changing year of 1975, when her family leaves Vietnam and settles in Alabama. (262 pp.) | J Lai |
| Uchida | A Jar of Dreams A young girl grows up in a closely knit Japanese-American family in California during the 1930s, a time of great prejudice. (131 pp.) | J Uchida |
| Woodson | Show Way The making of show ways, or quilts which were secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, was a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family. (42 pp.) | J Woodson |
Last Updated: 4/12
