Mr. Wilson's Post Civil War Books Fiction
November 12, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Bar
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. A coal miner's bride : the diary of Anetka Kaminska. A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Fic Cum HS
Cummings, Betty Sue. Now, Ameriky. A young Irish woman, whose family is driven from their land during the potato famine in the 1840's, is sent to America to earn enough money to enable the rest of her family to join her.
Fic Den
Denenberg, Barry. One eye laughing, the other weeping : the diary of Julie Weiss. During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
Fic Dur
Durbin, William. The journal of Otto Peltonen : a Finnish immigrant. In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Fic Gif
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's song. When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive.
Fic Hes
Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka. In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Fic Hun HS
Hunt, Irene. Claws of a young century : a novel. Seventeen-year-old Ellen's optimistic dream of a bright new century full of hope on New Year's Eve 1899 seems a far cry from the reality of the next 20 years as she and all those close to her fight private and social battles that leave none of their lives unchanged.
Fic Las
Lasky, Kathryn. Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl. Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Fic Nix HS
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Land of hope. Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
Fic Pat HS
Paterson, Katherine Bread and roses, too. Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. A stitch in time. Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwest Territory.
Fic Sin HS
Sinclair, Upton. The jungle. Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
Fic Woo
Woodruff, Elvira. The orphan of Ellis Island : a time-travel adventure. During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.
