Coleman, Evelyn

MYSTERY OF THE DARK TOWER American Girl History Mysteries In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, 12-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

2000

139 p.

Dudley, David

THE BICYCLE MAN rural Georgia, 1927.Carissa's mother does laundry for white ladies so the two of them can move up north when into their lives rides an elderly white man on a shiny blue bicycle who shows them how to find balance in their lives.

2005

249 p.

Erickson, John

DISCOVERY AT FLINT SPRINGS When Dr. Montrose visits their Texas ranch in the summer of 1927, fourteen-year-old Riley and his twelve-year-old brother Coy are drawn into an archaeological adventure.

2004

150 p.

Erickson, John

MOONSHINER'S GOLD In Canadian, Texas, in 1927, not long after his father's death, Riley and his fiddle-playing grandfather must find a way to save the family ranch from a group of moonshiners and the men behind their operation.

2001

199 p.

Franklin, Kristine

GRAPE THIEF It's 1925 in multi-ethnic Roslyn, Washington, where a twelve-year-old boy has earned the nickname "Cuss" because he can swear in fourteen languages. This coming-of-age story finds Cuss shouldering family responsibility much too soon.

2003

290 p.

Fuqua, Jonathon Scott

DARBY In 1926, 9-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.

2002

238 p.

Glaser, Linda

BRIDGE TO AMERICAN 8-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its derperate beginning in a shetetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.

2005

183 p.

Hesse, Karen

WITNESS A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

2001

161 p.

Hoobler, Dorothy

LUCK 1920 In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where Afrcian Americans have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress and her little brother Marcus finds that his artistic talents are useful.

2000

143 p.

Houston, Gloria

LITTLEJIM'S DREAMS In 1920 in the mountains of western North Carolina, fourteen-year-old Jim Houston sees his hopes of continuing his education fade when his mother becomes seriously ill and his logger father must deal with the underhanded dealings of outside businessmen.

1997

231 p.

Karr, Kathleen

MAN OF THE FAMILY During the 1920's, life for Istran, the eldest child of a Hungarian-American amily, holds both joy and sadness. 1924 New Jersey.

2000

143 p.

Levine, Gail Carson

DAVE AT NIGHT When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music and culture filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. 1926.

2000

143 p.

Lisle, Janet Taylor

BLACK DUCK Years afterwards, Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.

2006

252 p.

Lutz, Norma

CARRIE'S COURAGE 1923. With a nation convulsed by the civil war, ten-year-old Elise Brannon wants to use her love of acting to make people laugh and forget the depressing news from the battlefields.

2005

141 p.

Myers, Walter Dean

HARLEM SUMMER 1925. Mark has a job in a publishing office, but all he wants to do is play his sax. When he makes a delivery for jazz musician Fats Waller, and it goes bad, he gets into trouble with a ganster.

2007

165 p.

Russell, Cynthia

MIM AND THE CRIMINAL A Hoosier Farm Girl Solves A Mystery Charlie, the boy who had served time for the fire at the fairgrounds, is completing high school at a nearby boarding school. Mim and her friends believe he's reformed, but a new fire at a nearby farm convinces almost everyone in her church and neighborhood that Charlie's up to his old ways.

2002

119 p.

Russell, Cynthia

MIM AND THE KLAN A Hoosier Quaker Farm Family's Story On her family's Hoosier farm in the 1960s, young Mim learns about the chores and pleasures of country life, and some things about the country that aren't so pleasant...Later in the day, Grams set cousin Karen and me to scraping corn off the cobs into pans.While we worked I told Karen what Gramps and Gram had told me. "The Klan was here in Indiana, not just the South. And it was here in our county- even among church members." "I thought we were past all that bigotry--prejudice." "Karen, I am ashamed to say this is a state that still harbors prejudice. Do you realize we have no black students at Southwood at all? Not one?" "Its true, cousin. I'm not sure there is a black family in this county." Thus begins a mystery that takes these two cousins and their friends and relatives into a shadowy past when Indiana fought a ruthless enemy- the Ku Klux Klan.

1999

122 p.

Tamar, Erika

THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN HOME When their mother can no longer care for them, 11-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out west, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. 1927.

2000

202 p.

Yep, Laurence

DREAM SOUL In 1927, as Christmas approaches, 15-year-old Joan Lee hopes to get her parents' permission to celebrate the holiday, one of the problems belonging to the only chinese American family in her small West Virginia comunity.

2000

244 p.

Yep, Laurence

STAR FISHER 15-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920's.

1991

150 p.