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Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006.
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Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.| Year: | c2005. |
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| Subject: | Brigands and robbers -- Fiction. Cousins -- Fiction. Sheriffs -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | historical fiction, old west, 0046fpl, 1880s, cowboys, fict, good vs. evil, hist, western fiction |
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Hemphill, Helen, 1955-
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Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.| Year: | c2008. |
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| Subject: | Cowboys -- Fiction. Cattle drives -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | historical, 0046fpl, adventure, african american, boys, cowboys, historical fiction, horses, middle school, midwest, rural, southern, teen, western, ya, young adult fiction |
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Hart, Alison. 1950-
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Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know a few things about survival when the 1888 Children's Blizzard traps her and her classmates in their Nebraska schoolhouse.| Year: | c2005. |
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| Subject: | Survival -- Fiction. Blizzards -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | historical fiction, children's, historical, 0046fpl, blizzard, blizzards, children's literature, family, family and friends, frontier, intermediate, nebraska, old west, pioneer life, pioneers, prairie, survival, weather, young adult |
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Couloumbis, Audrey.
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Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle, but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name.| Year: | c2007. |
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| Subject: | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction. Thieves -- Fiction. Sisters -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | outlaws, western, historical fiction, sisters, children's, wild west, young adult, 0046fpl, 1900s, adventure, adventure fiction, american history, bad luck, family, female protagonist, girls, historical, horses, humor, juvenile fiction, kids, middle, mistaken identity, orphans, siblings |
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Cushman, Karen.
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A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.| Year: | c2003. |
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| Subject: | Polish Americans -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Orphan trains -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | historical fiction, orphans, orphan train, ya, juvenile, children's, historical, 19th century, orphan trains, pioneers, chicago, immigrants, polish, wyoming, young adult, young adult fiction, adoption, american history, children's fiction, girls, immigration, juvenile fiction, trains, west, 0046fpl, 1881, america, american, belonging, canada, child, children's literature, children's novel, family, female, feminism, fiction, forced migration, frontier, girl, history, holocaust, hope, jf, julia, lake, middle, newbery, orphanage, poland, polish americans, prairie, princess, teen, teen fiction, the west, touching, u.s., website, women doctors, wwii, youth |
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