WHEN JESSIE CAME ACROSS THE SEA

by Amy Hest
In this ode to the immigrant experience, a girl leaves her grandmother behind in an Eastern European shtetl to sail for America. Candlewick; ages four to eight.
WHEN JESSIE CAME ACROSS THE SEA

THE LITTLE HOUSE SERIES

by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The stories grow in complexity as the protagonist grows in age in this celebrated series written by a daughter of early pioneers in the American West. HarperTrophy;
ages six to 12.
LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS (The Little House Series, Book One)

THE BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE

by Karen Cushman
The gold rush holds no charm for a book-loving girl who is forced to find her own way in a rough and dirty mining town. HarperCollins; ages nine to 12.
THE BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE

MY NAME IS AMERICA SERIES

by various authors
This series of fictional diaries includes firsthand accounts by an Irish mill girl, a black cowboy, a Titanic survivor and more. Scholastic; ages nine to 12.
THE JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE : A CIVIL WAR UNION SOLDIER (My Name Is America Series)

THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

by Elizabeth George Speare
Bigotry and witch hysteria in seventeenth-century New England come to the fore in this tale of a teenage girl who befriends a reclusive Quaker woman. Laurel Leaf;
ages nine to 12.
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND