Girls survive
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Ann fights for freedom: an Underground Railroad survival story
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Charlotte spies for justice: a Civil War survival story
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Emmi in the city: a Great Chicago Fire survival story
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Lucy fights the flames: a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story
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Noelle at sea: a Titanic survival story
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In 1918, fourteen-year-old Daisy's family has fallen on hard times. Her sister Elsie's fiance was recently deployed to fight in World War I, and her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the U.S. entrance into the war. When the Spanish Flu arrives in her small town in Minnesota, Daisy tries to shield her loved ones from the devastating illness. As the influenza pandemic sweeps through the nation, can Daisy protect those closest...
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she wants - one that doesn't involve her getting married or working in a factory. But then the molasses tank at the local plant explodes, sweeping through the city streets. The wave destroys everything in its path, and suddenly Leah must fight to survive if she wants to have any future at all. --from Amazon....
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood on fire. Separated from her parents, Lily must help her younger brother and neighbor escape San Francisco. As the city burns, Lily struggles to keep her group close as they face peril and racism. Will Lily be reunited with her parents and make it across the bay to the safety of Oakland? Readers can learn...
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Maribel daydreams at school, but when she defies evacuation orders to return home just as Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980, she must focus in order to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather, Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary,...
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are blacked out. She helps her dad build a bomb shelter. She learns how to wear a gas mask. War, led by Adolf Hitler, is stomping its feet at Great Britain's doorstep, and Hettie knows only one thing for certain: When the bombs come, it will take all the courage she has to be brave and survive. --from Amazon.
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes...
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
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Maddy and the monstrous storm: a Schoolhouse Blizzard survival story
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Millie and the great drought: a Dust Bowl survival story
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Claudia in the storm: a Hurricane Katrina survival story
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Essie and the march on Selma: a bloody Sunday survival story
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Flor fights back: a Stonewall Riots survival story
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Fumiko and a Tokyo tragedy: a Great Kanto earthquake survival story
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Nina under arrest: a Birmingham Children's Crusade survival story
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