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Avi!. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle!.
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious!.

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg!. The Ox-Bow Incident!.
Three men suspected of cattle-rustling become the victims of mob justice in frontier Nevada!.

Crane, Stephen!. The Red Badge of Courage!.
Henry Fleming's attitude towards war changes while he is a union soldier!.

Craven, Margaret!. I Heard the Owl Call My Name!.
A young priest enters a village of Native Americans in the Northwest and learns how to live!.

Cushman, Karen!. The Midwife's Apprentice!.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife!.

Dickens, Charles!. A Tale of Two Cities!.
The lives of Alexander Manette and his daughter Lucie and those of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton become entangled during the French Revolution!.

Greene, Bette!. Summer of My German Soldier!.
A twelve-year-old Jewish girl shelters an escaped German prisoner of war in WWII Arkansas!.

Hudson, Jan!. Sweetgrass!.
A fifteen-year-old Blackfoot girl of the 1830s must prove herself a capable woman before she can marry Eagle Sun!.

Lester, Julius!. Pharoah’s Daughter!.
Based on a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods!.

Myers, Walter Dean!. Fallen Angels!.
Just out of high school in 1967, Perry spends a devastating year in Vietnam!.

Myers, Walter Dean!. The righteous revenge of Artemis Bonner!.

Fifteen-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1882, to avenge the murder of his uncle!.

Rinaldi, Ann!. Wolf by the Ears!.
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be Thomas Jefferson's daughter, faces the choice of passing as white or remaining a slave in the sheltered but restricted life at Monticello!.

Sebestyen, Ouida!. Words by Heart!.
A young black girl struggles to fulfill her father's dream of a better future for their family in 1910!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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My two favorites that I read at least once a year are:

Constance - The diary of a young girl who came over on the Mayflower, it covers the first years of the colony!.

The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle - also a diary book, about a girl who ends up the only passenger on a ship traveling from England to the USA!. She ends up being caught up in the middle of a mutiny!.

Both of my copies of the books are falling apart, I've had each for at least 15 years!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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A great series is the Bloody Jack series by L!.A!. Meyer!. It starts in London!. Bloody Jack is really a girl!. Orphaned in London at the end of the 1700's, she lives with a street gang, then disguises herself as a boy and is hired onto a British Naval ship!.
Great adventure, great characters, humor, suspense, great FUN!.
Bloody Jack, L!.A!. Meyer
The Curse of the Blue Tattoo
Under the Jolly Roger
In the Belly of the Bloodhound
Mississippi Jack

also:
A Murder for Her Majesty, Hilgartner
Beyond the Western Sea, Avi
Sarah on her Own, CoombsWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Animal Farm, but you should be able to draw connections, or Night by Elie Weisel which is about the holocaust!. There's also To Kill a Mockingbird!.

EDIT: I remembered another one:- The Handmaid's Tale!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Sort of historical The Great and Terrible beauty!. I also really enjoyed Yellow Fever!. The Girl Spy is also good!.!.!.let me think Where the Red Fern grows isn's historical but it's a classic!. Enna Burning!. Escaping Dawn!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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i read this one a long time ago!.!.!.
Running out of time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

its really good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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"Profiles in Courage" by Pres!. John F!. KennedyWww@QuestionHome@Com

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