Clever and slightly mischievous 11 yo African American boy is born free in Canada to former slave parents. He risks everything by chasing a thief into America.
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Elijah of Buxton
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
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Understood Betsy
City based orphan goes to live with her country relatives, depicts farm life at beginning of 20th century
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Catherine, Called Birdy
14 yo daughter of a lord rebels against her father’s plans for her marriage in Medieval England.
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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
12 yo Mongolian girl makes a sudden and spontaneous decision to disguise herself as a boy to ride with Kublai Kahn’s soldiers when they conscript her favorite horse
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Adam of the Road
An English boy searches for his stolen dog through the English countryside in medieval times.
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Little Britches
Autobiographical account of 8 yo boy moving with family to a Colorado cattle ranch. This is the first of eight books Moody wrote about his early life.
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Sing Down the Moon
15 yo Native American Navajo girl and her family evicted from land by American soldiers and forced to march Long Walk
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A 6 yo girl comes of age in small town America and witnesses racism first hand when her lawyer father tries to defend a wrongfully accused African American man.
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