Did you ever wonder what was it like to live a long time ago? Here's your chance to find out! These books are fiction, meaning that most of the people are made up by the authors, but the authors did a lot of research first to make sure what they wrote was based on things that really did happen! So dive in and find out what it would have been like if you lived in the United States 30, 100, even 300 years ago!
Child fiction book. In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy. Part of the American Girl series. Grade: 5+
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. Grade: 6+
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran. Grade: 5+
Child fiction book. Twelve-year-old Lee, an orphan, reluctantly leaves his grandparents in China for the long sea voyage to San Francisco, where he and other immigrants undergo examinations at Angel Island Immigration Station. Part of the Tales of Young Americans series. Grade: 3+
Child fiction book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? On their first visit in August 1929. they see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy! More thrills with larger-than-life Grandma to come! The sequel is "A Year Down Yonder". Grade: 5+
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD and Playaway, and e-audiobook. A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. Grade: 3+
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Grade: 4+
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a rundown farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard in the city, but times are hard in the country too, and the school and library are closed. When Pop gets work near Canada, he has to leave the children on the farm alone for two months, but Rachel's the oldest, and she'll make sure they're all right. Somehow. Grade: 4+