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Historic Books for Kids

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The Brightwood Code
Books by Horseback: A Librarian's Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children
The Horseback Librarians
Operation: Happy: A World War II Story of Courage, Resilience, and an Unbreakable Bond
The Night War
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
No Promises in the Wind
The Truth about Sparrows
The Miner's Daughter
Like the Willow Tree (Revised)
Hazel
Uprising (Reprint)
Searching for Silverheels
Here Lies the Librarian
The Lamplighter
Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War
Bull Run
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tippecanoe 1811: The Prophet's Battle
Archie Strikes Gold
Bigger
Stella Stands Alone
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story
Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad
The Story of the Amistad
A Christmas Carol
Little Women
The Birchbark House
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Finishing Becca: A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre
Toliver's Secret
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
Johnny Tremain: A Newbery Award Winner
Calico Bush
Fever 1793
Chains (Reprint)
The Indigo Girl
Kaya Rides to the Rescue (American Girl)
My Brother Sam Is Dead (Scholastic Gold)
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution (Reprint)
The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion
Poison in the Colony: James Town 1622
The Very First Thanksgiving Day (Reprint)
Three Young Pilgrims
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
The Plot to Kill a Queen
Gallows Hill
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Beheld
Act of Oblivion
The Locksmith's Daughter
Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America
Nine Days a Queen
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner
Sir Morien: The Legend of a Knight of the Round Table
A Single Shard: A Newbery Award Winner
Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun
The Green Children of Woolpit (Reprint)
The Shining Company (Sunburst)
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Secret of the Andes
The King's Shadow
Viking Ships at Sunrise
Weird But True Know-It-All: Middle Ages
The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times: A Handbook for Time Travelers
History Year by Year: The History of the World, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age
The Locksmith's Daughter
Changeling (Reprint)
Stormbringers
Winx Thinks - Dinosaurs!
A Stone Is a Story
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Revised)
Hour of the Olympics
The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey
Pythagoras and the Ratios: A Math Adventure
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?
A Triumph for Flavius
Game on in Ancient Greece
Hot on the Trail in Ancient Egypt
Stowing Away with the Vikings
Secrets of the Nile: A YA time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt
The Eagle
Beneath the Sand
Laurella Swift and the Keys of Time
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Frankenstein - Kid Classics: The Classic Edition Reimagined Just-For-Kids! (Kid Classic #2) 1
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Revised)
Number the Stars
The Prince of Thieves: Tales of Robin Hood by Alexandre Dumas: Book One
My Brother Sam Is Dead (Scholastic Gold)
Calico Bush
The Call of the Wild
Oliver Twist
Of Mice and Men
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jane Eyre
Anne of Green Gables
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Revised)
Orphan Train Girl (Young Readers')
Hattie's War
The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming (Reprint)
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
Once on This Island
Forge (Reprint)
One If by Land, Two If by Submarine
The Last of the Mohicans
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
Leah's Story
Caintuck Lies Within My Soul: The Jemima Boone Story
Sunflower Sisters
The Children's Blizzard
West
Hamlet Is Not Ok
Winx Thinks - Dinosaurs!
Tangled in Time: The Portal
Tangled in Time 2: The Burning Queen
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Sky Over Rebecca
Tangled in Time: The Burning Queen
Tangled in Time: The Portal
Stowing Away with the Vikings
World's Worst Time Machine: Treasure in the White City Volume 2
Rewind
Secrets of the Nile: A YA time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt
Duel Across Time
The Magic Carousel
The Egypt Game (Reprint)
The Lamplighter
Hamlet Is Not Ok
Brooms
Frankenstein - Kid Classics: The Classic Edition Reimagined Just-For-Kids! (Kid Classic #2) 1
Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862
The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey
The Green Children of Woolpit (Reprint)
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
The Thieves of Ostia
Gilgamesh the King (Revised)
The Clan of the Cave Bear: Earth's Children, Book One
The Mists of Avalon
Mortal Heart
Dark Triumph
Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book I
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