U.S. History Fiction/Novels
Mount Si High School Library
Titles marked with a # have an AR test.
# FIC ACK
Ackerman, Ned. Spirit horse. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic
Press, 1998. When a Siksika boy living on the Plains during
the 1770s becomes separated from a raiding party, he
discovers and tracks the legendary spirit horse.
Fic Ada
Adams, Jane. Seattle green. New York : Arbor House., c1987. A
novel of Seattle that begins with a fictional figure from
the the Mercer Girls, through three generations.
# Fic Alc
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. Grosset, 1947.
The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in
nineteenth-century New England.
# Fic Ald
Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954. A lantern in her hand. Large
print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, [1982] c1955. Tells the story of a young woman who gives up the promise of a comfortable city life to face the challenge of homesteading on the American frontier.
# FIC Arm
Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-. The dreams of Mairhe Mehan. 1st ed.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996.
Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in
the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the
Civil War on her family.
# FIC Arm
Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-. Steal away. New York : Orchard
Books : Scholastic, c1992. In 1855 two thirteen-year-old
girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern
farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living
to recount their story 41 years later to two young girls.
# FIC Avi
Avi, 1937-. Night journeys. New York : Beech Tree Books, 1994.
In the spring of 1768, two young indentured servants escape
into Pennsylvania and receive help in an unexpected source.
# FIC Avi
Avi, 1937-. The fighting ground. New York : Lippincott :
HarperCollins, c1984. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off
to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war
is being fought within himself.
FIC AYR
Ayres, Katherine. North by night : a story of the Underground
Railroad. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998. Presents the
journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a
stop on the Underground Railroad.
Fic Bea
Beatty, Patricia. Turn homeward, Hannalee. Mahwah, NJ : Troll,
1984. The Civil War takes 12-year-old Hannalee far away
from her family and friends, but she's determined to return
to her home.
# Fic Bon
Bonner, Cindy, 1953-. Lily : a novel. Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992. A young girl tells
what happened in 1883 when a vigilante group struck against
a gang of outlaws on Christmas Eve night, 1883, in the town
of McDade, Texas.
# FIC BOY
Boyd, James, 1888-1944. Drums. New York : Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, [1995]. Johnny Fraser, the son of Scottish
immigrants now living in North Carolina, goes off to fight
in the Revolutionary War and has adventures on both sides of
the Atlantic.
# Fic Bri
Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895-. Caddie Woodlawn. Collier ed. New
York : Macmillan, 1935. The adventures of an
eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier
in the mid-nineteenth century.
FIC Bro
Brown, Dee Alexander. The way to Bright Star. 1st ed. New York
: Forge, 1998. A coming-of-age novel which takes place in
the 1860s.
# FIC Bun
Bunting, Eve, 1928-. SOS Titanic. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,
1996. Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from
Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic,
finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and
begins to sink.
# Fic Bur
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy tree. New York : Ticknor & Fields,
1984. Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three
weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young
Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlyweds'
conspirator and confidant; meanwhile he does some growing up
on his own.
# FIC Bur
Burks, Brian. Runs With Horses. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,
1995. Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to
become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches.
# FIC Bur
Burks, Brian. Soldier boy. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1997. A
boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century
Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with
General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
# Fic Cam
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-. Your blues ain't like mine. New
York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1992. A boy, not used to segregation,spends the summer in Mississippi in the 1950s.
# Fic Car
Carter, Forrest. The education of Little Tree. Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press, 1986, c1979. An autobiographical account of novelist Carter’s life as a Cherokee Indian.
# FIC Car
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Stealing freedom. New York : Knopf, 1998.
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave
girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and
cruelty, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
# Fic Cat
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. O pioneers! New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Penguin Books, 1989. Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
# FIC CAT
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. One of ours. 1st Vintage classics ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1991. Claude Wheeler, a sensitive
Nebraska youth, lives in the midst of plenty on his family's
prosperous farm hungering for a purpose. When America enters
the Great War he goes to France to find meaning.
# Fic Cla
Clapp, Patricia. The tamarack tree : a novel of the siege of
Vicksburg. 1st ed. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard,
c1986. An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her
loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and
her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional
hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the
spring of 1863.
FIC Col
Coldsmith, Don, 1926-. Walks in the sun. New York : Bantam
Books, 1992. Walks in the Sun, a young Indian holy man of
the People, is torn by a split among his friends and family.
# FIC Col
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. The clock. New York : Delacorte
Press ; Yearling, c1992. In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in
a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her
father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of
the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
# FIC Col
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. With every drop of blood. New
York : Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1997. While trying to
transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War,
14-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.
# Fic Con
Conrad, Pam. Prairie songs. New York : Harper Trophy, 1985.
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska
prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his
frail wife.
# Fic Coo
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The deerslayer. New York :
Dodd Mead, 1979. Relates the adventures of woodsman Natty
Bumppo in upper New York State at the time of the Iroquois
wars.
Fic Coo
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The Last of the Mohicans.
Reader's digest ed. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest
Association, c1984. Story of a white frontiersman and his Indian friend in colonial America.
# FIC Coo
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The leatherstocking saga.
Mattituck, N.Y. : Aeonian Press, 1978, c1954. v. 1. The
deerslayer, The last of the Mohicans -- v. 2. The
pathfinder, The pioneers, and The prairie. Narrates the
conflicts of nations (Indian, English, French, and American)
amid the dense woods, desolate prairies, and transcendent
landscapes of the New World.
# FIC Cor
Cormier, Robert. Heroes : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press,
1998. After joining the army at fifteen and having his face
blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis
returns home to the United States hoping to find--and kill--the
former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
# FIC Cov
Coville, Bruce. Fortune's journey. [Mahwah, N.J.] : BridgeWater
Paperback, 1997, c1995. Sixteen-year-old Fortune faces many
challenges on an overland journey to California in 1853 with
the acting company that she inherited from her father.
# Fic Cra
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. The red badge of courage.
Unabridged. New York, : Golden Press, [1968]. During his
service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to
manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with
his conflicting emotions about war.
FIC CRA
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. The red badge of courage and four
stories. New York : Signet Classic, [1997]. The red badge
of courage -- The upturned face -- The open boat -- The blue
hotel -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky. Contains the
complete text of Crane's Civil War novel "The Red Badge of
Courage," and includes four additional stories by the
American author.
# Fic Cre
Crew, Linda. Children of the river. New York :
Dell/Laurel-leaf, 1989. Having fled Cambodia four years
earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old
Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people
and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a regular
American.
FIC Cus
Cushman, Karen. The ballad of Lucy Whipple. New York : Clarion
Books, c1996. In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning
Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her
mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough
California mining town.
Fic Deg
De Grazia, Sebastian. A country with no name : tales from the
Constitution. New York : Pantheon Books, 1997. A young
Englishwoman tutors a young American in American history.
FIC DEL
DeLillo, Don. Underworld. New York, NY : Scribner, c1997. A
fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the
eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a
waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax.
Fic Dil
Dillard, Annie. The Living. New York, NY : HarperCollins
Publishers, c1992. A story about the settlement of Whatcom Settlement near Bellingham.
Fic Doc
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-. Ragtime. 1st ed. New York : Random
House, [1975]. Three remarkable families lives' become
entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan,
Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the
turn of the century.
Fic Doc
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-. World's fair. 1st ed. New York :
Random House, c1985. Recalls a certain New York City
boyhood in the 1930s, through the eyes of the child himself
and then him as an adult trying to reconstruct the past.
Fic Doi
Doig, Ivan. The sea runners. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,
1982. In 1853 four indentured servants escape from Russian
Alaska and make their way by canoe down the Pacific
Northwest coast toward Oregon.
FIC Dor
Dorris, Michael. Cloud chamber : a novel. New York : Scribner
Paperback Fiction, c1997. A novel about the effects of time
and memory on succeeding generations of a family in Montana fueled by fierce anger, repressed passions and determined will.
FIC Dos
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. U.S.A. New York : Library of
America ; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin
Books, c1996. The 42nd parallel -- 1919 -- The big money.
A collective portrait of America in the first half of this
century, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant
social observation.
# FIC DUR
Durrant, Lynda, 1956-. The beaded moccasins. New York : Clarion
Books, c1998. After being captured by a group of Delaware
Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his
dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced
to travel west with them to Ohio.
# FIC EDM
Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-. Drums along the Mohawk. 1st
Syracuse University Press ed. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse
University Press, 1997. A young couple struggle to survive along the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War.
FIC ELL
Ellison, Suzanne Pierson, 1951-. The last warrior. Flagstaff,
AZ : Rising Moon, c1997. Unable to complete his warrior
training, hounded by an Apache outlaw, and uneasy with the
attempts of the "white-eyes" to educate him, Solito, a
teenage Apache brave, find his own place in a changing world.
FIC ERD
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks : a novel. 1st Perennial Library ed.
New York : Perennial Library, 1989, c1988. Told in the
alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a
young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles
the drama of daily lives overshadowed by the clash of
cultures and mythologies.
# FIC Fas
Fast, Howard, 1914-. April morning, : a novel. New York, :
Crown Publishers, [1961]. Adam Cooper signs up on the
muster roll of the Lexington Militia on April 19th, 1775,
and then lives through the first day of conflict with the
British, during which his father is killed.
# Fic Fle
Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia. New York :
HarperCollins/HarperKeypoint, 1990. In 1681 in Boston,
William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid, leads a
productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice.
# FIC Fle
Fleischman, Paul. The borning room. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :
HarperCollins, c1991. Lying at the end of her life in the
room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it
was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.
# Fic For
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1971. The Revolutionary War
with its famous Boston Tea Party is described in this
historical novel of the revolt in Boston.
# Fic Fox
Fox, Paula. The Slave dancer; : a novel. Scarsdale, N.Y., :
Bradbury Press, [1973]. Kidnapped by the crew of an
Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his
horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music
for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
FIC Fri
Friedman, Carl. Nightfather. 1st ed. New York : Persea Books,
c1994. A father tells his children about his life in a Nazi
concentration camp.
FIC Gab
Gabaldon, Diana. Drums of autumn. New York : Delacorte Press,
1997. Continues the saga of Claire and Jamie Fraser that
began in Outlander. In this sequel, they set off for new
beginning among the exile Scottish Highlanders in the Cape
Fear area of the Virginia Colony.
# FIC Gai
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. The autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman. New York : Bantam : Dial Press, 1971. A
110-year-old black woman reminisces about her life, which
has stretched from the days of slavery to the black
militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
# FIC Gar
Garland, Sherry. Indio. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,
c1995. Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal
time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the
native people along the Texas border.
FIC GIB
Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. On the occasion of my last afternoon. New
York : Putnam, c1998. Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, a young
woman born to privilege on a James River plantation, finds
herself at odds with her father's practice of slavery, and
in defiance of her domineering parent, marries a Boston
surgeon with whom she works through the Civil War.
FIC Gil
Gilman, Dorothy, 1923-. Girl in buckskin. Philadelphia : Macrae
Smith : Fawcett Juniper, c1956. Sixteen-year-old Becky
Pumroy, a servant, hears that a wealthy older man wants to
marry her. She runs away with her brother Eseck. Becky
expects the Indians to be her enemy, but she finds something
very different.
Fic Gla
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945. Vein of iron. San
Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1983], c1935. Ada
Fincastle's love and courage are tested by the hardships she
faces during the Depression in Virginia's Great Valley.
FIC Gla
Glancy, Diane. Pushing the bear : a novel of the Trail of Tears.
1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1996. The story of one
of the families who walked The Trail of Tears.
FIC Goo
Goodman, Allegra. The family Markowitz. New York : Pocket
Books, 1996. A story about three generations of Markowitzes
making their way in America.
# FIC GOO
Goodman, Joan E. Hope's crossing. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
c1998. When kidnapped by English Loyalists during the
Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every
ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.
FIC Gra
Graham, Heather. Runaway. New York : Dell, 1994. A runaway
woman puts aside her fears of the Seminole Indians and
accompanies a widower to Florida in the 1800s.
# FIC Gre
Gregory, Kristiana. Earthquake at dawn. 1st ed. San Diego :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992. A novelization of
22-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the
aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Fic Gut
Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-. The big sky. Thorndike
large print. Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1985, c1947. Tells the story of pioneers in the wild Montana frontier.
Fic Gut
Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-. The Way west. New York,
: W. Sloane Associates, [1949]. Describes the journey by wagon train across the wild American frontier.
Fic Ham
Hambly, Barbara. A free man of color. Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between an old friend and her husband’s mistress, and ends up being one of the last people to see the mistress alive. Book one in the series.
Fic Ham
Hambly, Barbara. Fever season. Benjamin January must solve a murder mystery while he is trying to save the people of New Orleans from the deadly cholera epidemic. Book two in the series.
Fic Ham
Hambly, Barbara. Graveyard dust. When benjamin’s sister is arrested formurder, Benjamin feels someone is trying to frame her, but as he begins to investigate the crime, he discovers someone is willing to go to any length to prevent him from learning the truth. Book three in the series.
Fic Ham
Hambly, Barbara. Sold down the river. When someone he cannot refuse asks the favor, Benjamin reluctantly agrees to reenter the realm of his childhood on the sugar plantation owned by the savage Simon Fourchet.
Fic Han
Hansen, Ron, 1947-. Desperadoes : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf, 1979. A fictional account of the lives and deeds of
the Daltons, an outlaw gang who terrorized the old West.
# FIC HAR
Hardman, Ric Lynden. Sunshine rider : the first vegetarian
western. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998. In the late
1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from
Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer
necessary to run from the father he never knew.
# Fic Haw
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The scarlet letter. New York,
: F. Watts, [1969]. In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultry and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
# Fic Hel
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22, : a novel. New York, : Simon and
Schuster, 1961. Amazing adventures of an American bombing squadron during World War II.
FIC HER
Hertenstein, Jane, 1958-. Beyond paradise. New York : Morrow
Junior Books, c1999. Within months of arriving in the
exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with
her missionary parents on the island of Panay,
fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in
an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country
in 1941.
# FIC Hes
Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. New York : Scholastic Press,
1997. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo
relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm
in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
# Fic Hig
Highwater, Jamake. Legend days. 1st ed. New York : Harper &
Row, c1984. Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox
devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from
Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess,
gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive
disintegration of her people.
FIC HOH
Hoh, Diane. Titanic : the long night. New York : Scholastic,
c1998. When Elizabeth and Katie, two girls from very
different backgrounds, board the Titanic, they think they
are on their way to new lives in America, but what they do
not know is that they will have to fight to stay alive on
the sinking ship.
# FIC HOL
Holland, Isabelle. Behind the lines. New York : Scholastic,
c1994. During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young
Irish Catholic girl helps an African-American make a daring
escape from an angry mob.
Fic Hot
Hotze, Sollace. A circle unbroken. New York : Clarion, 1988.
Captured by a roving band of Sioux Indians and brought up as
the chief's daughter, Rachel is recaptured by her white
family and finds it difficult to adjust.
FIC Hou
Houston, James A., 1921-. Ghost fox. 1st ed. New York :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1977. Kidnapped by raiding
Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian War,
seventeen-year-old Sarah must make a choice between life in
slavery or death by torture.
# Fic Hun
Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. Chicago, : Follett Pub. Co.,
[1964]. Jethro, who is nine years old, must run the farm in Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers at home prove as exciting as those in battle.
# FIC Hun
Hunt, Irene. No promises in the wind. Chicago : New York :
Follett Pub. Co., Berkley Books, 1986,c1970. A
fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms
with conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression.
FIC ING
Ingold, Jeanette. Pictures, 1918. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt
Brace, c1998. Coming of age in a rural Texas community in
1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort,
contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her
horizons through her pursuit of photography.
# FIC Jac
Jacobs, Paul Samuel. James Printer : a novel of rebellion. New
York : Scholastic Press, 1997. Although he has lived and
worked as a printer's apprentice Cambridge Massachusetts, for many years, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.
FIC Jac
Jacobs, Kathleen L., 1969-. Never forsaken. Wheaton, Ill. :
Crossway Books, c1999. Louisa Shumaker and her family are
leaving Germany to start a new life in St. Louis, Missouri.
Life in an American city is very different than what Louisa
is used to and the whole family must learn to adapt to a new
lifestyle.
Fic Joh
Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-. Middle passage. New York :
Atheneum, 1990. Reveals the black American experience in the 1800s.
# FIC KAR
Karr, Kathleen. The great turkey walk. 1st ed. New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. In 1860, a somewhat
simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one
thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes
of selling them at a profit.
#Fic Kas
Kassem, Lou. Listen for Rachel. New York : Avon/Flare, 1986.
Moving up into the mountains of Tennessee introduces Rachel
to a possible calling as she learns about folk medicine from
a local healer.
FIC Kin
King, Stephen, 1947-. Hearts in Atlantis. New York : Scribner,
c1999. Five narratives, set in the U.S. from 1960 to 1999, deeply rooted in the sixties and haunted by the Vietnam War.
FIC Lee
Lee, Gus. China boy : a novel. New York : Dutton, c1991. Tells
the story of a Chinese American family's relationship while
relating how Kai Ting learned to survive in a black San
Francisco slum in the 1950s.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. Bendigo Shafter. New York : Bantam,
1993. Eighteen-year-old Bendigo Shafter arrives with a
group of pioneers in a small Western settlement in Wyoming
to begin a new life filled with struggle and adventure.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. The first fast draw. New York : Bantam
Books, 1991. Cullen Baker returns to Texas after the Civil
War, only to realize that he must fight a gang of thieves
determined to run him off his land.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. Flint. New York : Bantam, 1997, c1960.
After his wife tries to kill him, Jim Kettleman heads back
West to die alone at an old friend's hide-out.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. Hanging woman creek. New York : Bantam,
1999, c1964. A pair of drifters get a job on the Hanging
Woman Creek where trouble is brewing.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. Kiowa trail. New York : Bantam, [1994].
A nineteen-year-old cattle driver, who has his eye on a girl
with a very protective father, is murdered.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. The man from Skibbereen. New York :
Bantam, 1993. A broad shouldered and hearty Irishman is
headed for a job laying track at the the end of the line.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. The man from the broken hills. New York
: Bantam, 1975 (1990 printing). Milo Talon hunts a man who
has betrayed a trust with his kin, the Sacketts and Talons.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-. Passin' through. New York : Bantam, 1985
(1993 printing). A drifter, reckless and hard, has
vengeance on his mind.
# FIC LAM
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. Tucker. New York : Bantam, 1995. A
seventeen-year-old boy trails three men who have taken his
father's money.
FIC Lax
Laxalt, Robert, 1923-. Dust devils. Reno : University of Nevada
Press, 1997. Ira Hamilton wins a pure-blooded Arabian colt
which is stolen by a notorious local rustler. Ira and
Cricket vow to retrieve the horse.
# FIC Lev
Levoy, Myron. Alan and Naomi. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row,
c1977. In New York of the 1940's a boy tries to befriend a
girl traumatized by Nazi brutality in France.
# Fic Lyo
Lyons, Mary E. Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet
Jacobs. 1st ed. New York : Toronto : New York : Scribner ;
Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
c1992. A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet
Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have
written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she
prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
FIC Mar
Martin, William, 1950 Dec. 12-. Citizen Washington : a novel.
New York : Warner Books, c1999. A fictionalized account of
the life of George Washington.
Fic Mas
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In country : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Harper & Row, c1985. Sam lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father
was killed in Vietnam and she wants to understand the war.
Fic Maz
Mazer, Harry. The Last mission. New York : Delacorte Press,
c1979. In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he
will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United
States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the
Germans.
Fic McM
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome dove : a novel. New York : Simon and
Schuster, c1985. Tells of a cattle drive from Texas to
Montana and shows how one man's dream to create an empire
affects others.
Fic McM
McMurtry, Larry. Buffalo girls : a novel. New York : Simon and
Schuster, c1990. Tells of the life and times of Calamity
Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of
the West.
FIC Med
Medawar, Mardi Oakley. Witch of the Palo Duro : a Tay-bodal
mystery. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. The Rattle
Band returns to the Palo Duro Canyon, the tradtional Kiowa
winter camp, for the first time since Kit Carson's attack on
the canyon two years earlier. But, bad things start to happen.
FIC Med
Medawar, Mardi Oakley. Death at Rainy Mountain. New York :
Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. In the summer of 1866, the
separate bands of the Kiowa Nation gather at the sacred
Rainy Mountain to elect a new chief, but a murder threatens
to bring the Nations to war.
# FIC Mei
Meigs, Cornelia, 1884-1973. Swift rivers. New York : Walker,
1994. After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle,
Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his
grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs
down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
FIC Mer
Meriwether, Louise. Daddy was a number runner. 1st Feminist
Press ed. New York : Feminist Press at the City University
of New York, 1986, c1970. The story of a black girl
struggling towards womanhood and survival in Harlem in the
1930s.
# FIC Mor
Morrison, Toni. Beloved : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, 1987. Sethe, an escaped slave
who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the
unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She
struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining
possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of
her past.
# FIC Mye
Myers, Anna. Graveyard girl. New York : Walker, 1995. 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.
Fic Nel
Nelson, Theresa, 1948-. Devil storm. New York : Orchard Books,
c1987. A brother and sister living off the Texas Gulf Coast
befriend Tom the Tramp who becomes a hero during the Great
Storm of 1900.
# FIC Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery. A dangerous promise. New York : Delacorte
Press : Bantam Doubleday Dell, c1994. After being taaken in
by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old
Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army
as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in
Missouri.
# FIC Ode
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Thunder rolling in the mountains.
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1992. In the late 19th
century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were
driven off their land by the U.S. Army.
# FIC Oke
Oke, Janette, 1935-. Drums of change. Minneapolis : Bethany
House Publishers, 1996. Now that the white men have come her
tribe must leave their winter camp and Running Fawn must attend the Mission Boarding School far away from her family.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. A bride for Donnigan. Minneapolis, Minn. :
Bethany House Publishers, c1993. Kathleen leaves her
homeland in search of a new life, as a mail-order bride. Her
nervousness is matched by her prospective groom, Donnigan
Harrison, who is a farmer on the western frontier.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. The calling of Emily Evans. Minneapolis,
Minn. : Bethany House Publishers, c1990. While attending
Bible School, Emily Evans feels God's call into full-time
Christian service in a pioneer community.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. Julia's last hope. Minneapolis, Minn. :
Bethany House Publishers, c1990. When the local lumber mill
closes, Calder Springs is turning into a ghost town. Julia
seems an unlikely candidate for rescuing the town, but with
faith and for the sake of her children, she decides to try.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. The measure of a heart. Minneapolis, Minn.
: Bethany House Publishers, c1992. Anna Trent, a shy,
sensitive, self-conscious young woman who loves to learn,
captures the attention of a young seminarian in a frontier town. Their relationship grows through the years, as they exchange books and correspondence.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. Roses for Mama. Minneapolis, Minn. :
Bethany House, c1991. In the pioneer West, Angela's dying mother entrusts her with the care of her three young siblings, a responsibility Angela handles well. But her limits are tested when something happens to her father.
# FIC OKE
Oke, Janette, 1935-. A woman named Damaris. Minneapolis, Minn.
: Bethany House, c1991. Damaris runs away from an abusive
father, with only the strength from her mother's love and
two heirlooms, and her name. She must come to terms with her
past, and learn to live in her new frontier town.
# Fic Oke
Oke, Janette, 1935-. A gown of Spanish lace. Minneapolis :
Bethany House, [1997], c1995. Ariana is kidnapped from her
comfortable home by a gang of outlaws and finds heartbreak
and love from an unexpected source.
FIC Osb
Osborn, Karen. Between earth and sky. 1st ed. New York : W.
Morrow, c1996. Abigail Conklin leaves her home in
post-Civil War Virginia to travel to New Mexico. Her letters that continue for more than sixty years, leave a chronicle of her love of the Southwest that entices her future relatives.
# FIC Pat
Paterson, Katherine. Jip : his story. New York : Lodestar
Books, 1996. While living on a Vermont poor farm during
1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his
mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
# FIC Pat
Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin
Books, 1992, c1991. Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie
Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a
factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Fic Pau
Paul, Charlotte. Gold Mountain. New York, : Random House,
[1953]. Historical fiction about the Snoqualmie Valley.
# FIC Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Call me Francis Tucket. New York, N.Y. :
Delacorte Press : Bantam, Doubleday Dell, c1995. Having
been separated from the one-armed trapper, 15-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving
dangerous men and a friendly mule.
# FIC Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. New York : Delacorte Press, c1993.
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even
more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach
her how to read.
# FIC Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Sarny, a life remembered. New York : Delacorte
Press, 1997. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave
girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the
Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and
lived a full life until age ninety-four.
# FIC Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The rifle. 1st ed. San Diego : New York :
Harcourt Brace ; Laurel-Leaf, c1995. A priceless,
handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution,
is forgotten in a farmhouse attic until the fateful
Christmas Eve of 1994.
# FIC Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : being the story of the
enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the
first Minnesota volunteers. New York : Delacorte Press,
1998. Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a
change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors
and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
# FIC PEC
Peck, Richard, 1934-. A long way from Chicago : a novel in
stories. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers,
c1998. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural
Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression.
FIC Pes
Pesci, David. Amistad. New York : Marlowe and Co., 1997. The
powerfully re-imagined history of one of the country's first
battles for civil rights.
# FIC Pol
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. New York : Philomel Books,
1994. During the Civil War, a white and a black soldier describe their capture by Southern troops.
# FIC Por
Porter, Tracey. Treasures in the dust. New York :
HarperCollins, 1997. 11-year-old Annie and her friend tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.
FIC Pot
Potok, Chaim. In the beginning. New York : Fawcett Crest,
1976,1975. Describes the intellectual and emotional
awakening of young David Lurie, who grows up in the Bronx, from