Short non-fiction stories of well-known and obscure people and events from American history
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The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History
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Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
A fact-filled fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a 12 yo African American slave girl During the American Civil War. A Dear Mr. President Book.
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True North
14 yo white girl helps African American runaway slave girl, told in alternating points of view.
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
12 yo orphan boy from Maine journeys to Gettysburg to rescue his brother who was sold to Union army for Civil War effort
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Sugar
10 yo African American girl, former slave, still works on plantation, alongside newly arrived Chinese Americans. Illustrates difficult life for African Americans after Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation.
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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
12 yo African American orphan boy, a former slave, and his older brother, a runaway and a Union veteran of the Civil War, set out from their South Carolina plantation to claim their own Forty Acres. Along the way to Georgia they are joined by an 8 yo slave girl and others. They eventually create a successful farm, but are threatened with loss when the rules are changed.
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