McKissack, Patricia

AWAY WEST Scraps of Time, 1879v. 2 In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

2006

117 p.

Roop, Peter

GOOD-BYE FOR TODAY The Diary of a Young Girl at Sea 1871. 9-year-old Laura writes in her journal about the boredom, excitement and danger that she and her family face while sailing from Japan to the Arctic seas aboard the whaling ship captained by her father.

2000

40 p.

Avi

THE SEER OF SHADOWS In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.

2008

202 p.

Alexander, Lloyd

THE PHILADELPHIA ADVENTURE Starring Vesper Holly In 1876, on the eve of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 20-year-old Vesper Holly and her friends clash yet again with the archfiend Dr. Helvitius, whose evil schemes plunge them into danger in the wild Pennsylvania countryside.

2002

150 p.

Giff, Patricia Reilly

A HOUSE OF TAILORS When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.

2004

148 p.

Haas, Jessie

CHASE In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvanis, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.

2007

244 p.

Kirwan, Anna

OF FLOWERS AND SHADOWS Portraits, Book 2 The year is 1879. Beautiful and headstrong orphan Aurelia Sandborn has no family to call her own. Fleeing from her sinister guardian, Aurelia finds herself in a Massachusetts village, where the townsfolk seem all too curious about her mysterious background. When Aurelia meets a charming boy named Wayland, she would like nto open her heart to him, but feels she cannot. Surprisingly she finds herself confiding the artist Winslow Homer, who is painting her portrait. And Homer himself may hold the key to the very truth about Aurelia's past...and future.

2005

182 p.

Lasky, Kathryn

THE BONE WARS In the mid-1870's, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man. Judith River Badlands region of Montana 1874-1878.

1988

376 p.

Myers, Anna

GRAVEYARD GIRL During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, 12-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.

1995

125 p.

Myers, Walter Dean

THE JOURNAL OF JOSHUA LOPER, A BLACK COWBOY MY NAME IS AMERICA series In 1871, Joshua Loper, a 16-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.

1999

128 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

HIGH TRAIL TO DANGER In 1879, 17-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.

1991

168 p.

O'Dell, Scott and Elizabeth Hall

THUNDER ROLLING IN THE MOUNTAINS In 1877, a young New Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Armyand forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.

1992

126 p.

Rawlings, Marjorie

THE YEARLING A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of an orphaned deer (its mother was killed to save Jody's father from death by snakebite). Raised as the brother Jody never had, they grow up together. Jody learns about death, loyalty, poverty and responsibility, and that choices are often painful but survivable. 1870-1871.

1938

400 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

THE STAIRCASE In 1878, after her mother's death on the way west, 13-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.

2000

222 p.

Robinet, Harriette

CHILDREN OF THE FIRE A young black girl named Hallelujah lives through the great Chicago fire of 1871 with courage and resourcefulness.

1991

132 p.

Ryan, Pam

RIDING FREEDOM A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from her New Hampshire orphanage, posed as a boy who worked in a stable, moved to California With her stage coach company, and through disguise was the first woman to vote. 1812-1879.

1998

134 p.

Turner, Ann

GRASSHOPPER SUMMER In 1874, 11-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.

1989

166 p.

Whelan, Gloria

FAREWELL TO THE ISLAND THE WANIGAN A LIFE ON THE RIVER In 1878, 11-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure that includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.

2002

133 p.