WHEN JESSIE CAME ACROSS THE SEA
by Amy HestIn 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 WilderThe 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 CushmanThe 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 authorsThis 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 SpeareBigotry 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











