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The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Roland Smith Publisher Comments Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old river man, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesnt imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market 
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight... for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia Publisher Comments Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. It's an unforgettable story... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper
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Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Publisher Comments No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by .... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Staff Pick Much to her mother's dismay, 11-year-old Callie prefers science to needlework and cooking. But such preferences are not quite acceptable in America at the turn of the 20th century. Callie, however, is bound and determined to further her interests. A... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bridge of Time by Lewis Buzbee Publisher Comments Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Publisher Comments A moving and haunting novel for readers of The Book Thief Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina,... (read more) Your price: $8.99 New - Trade Paper
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Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac Publisher Comments After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury Publisher Comments Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then Pearl... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 (Dear America) by Kristiana Gregory Publisher Comments In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'dell Publisher Comments In this redesigned edition of Scott O'Dell's classic novel, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper
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Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher Comments In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Publisher Comments Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps (My Name Is America) by Ellen Emerson White Publisher Comments The brother of an anti-war demonstrator, a young marine is fighting a war no one understands while his sister is fighting on the home front to end the war in Vietnam and bring her brother home. An agonizing dilemma plagues these brother-sister diarists... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan Publisher Comments Tall tale. Thriller. Gripping historical fiction. This artful, sparely told graphic novel — a tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America — will resonate with young readers today. In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen Publisher Comments Based on a true account, Bound for Oregon brings to life a spirited heroine who, within six months, had enough adventures to last a lifetime. Filled with drama, warmth, an authentic detail, the story shows both the hardships of the Oregon Trail and a... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sing Down the Moon by Scott Odell Publisher Comments The Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning. The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf Publisher Comments Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope--twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force. Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum... (read more) Your price: $21.99 New - Hardcover
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The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter Publisher Comments The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. "Little Tree" as his grandparents call... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus Publisher Comments In 1841 a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japans borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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