Historical fiction

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A Single Shard (Unabridged)

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Foraging in fields and on rubbish heaps, and sharing food with his friend Crane-man, used to be enough to fill Tree-ear's days. But now all Tree-ear wants to do is watch master potter Min at work.

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920L
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03:13
A Single Shard (Unabridged)

Sing Down the Moon (Unabridged)

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The Spanish slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navajo way of life.This historical novel is about a young Navajo girl who is kidnapped and enslaved by Spaniards and then rescued by her husband-to-be.

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820L
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03:17
Sing Down the Moon (Unabridged)

The King's Fifth (Unabridged)

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While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a 17-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.

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840L
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07:55
The King's Fifth (Unabridged)

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

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No woman in all of our history has captured the imagination like the young Shoshone girl Sacagawea, who served as in interpreter and often as a guide for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition into our uncharted West.

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740L
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04:50
Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

My Name Is Not Angelica (Unabridged)

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The planter who buys you will put you to work in his household or in the sugar-cane fields. In the fields, under the hot sun, slaves don't last long, perhaps a year. So show your white teeth, Raisha, smile a lot, and don't say anything unless you're asked. Snatched from her home in Africa, sixteen-year-old Raisha begins her new life on the island of St.

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750L
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03:13
My Name Is Not Angelica (Unabridged)

The Cruise of the Arctic Star: A Voyage from San Diego to the Columbia River (Unabridged)

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In The Cruise of the Arctic Star, Scott O'Dell takes a voyage up the length of the California coast in his cedar-hulled offshore cruiser named Arctic Star.

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05:00
The Cruise of the Arctic Star: A Voyage from San Diego to the Columbia River (Unabridged)

The Amethyst Ring (Unabridged)

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Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro.

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Lexile: 
980L
Length: 
08:01
The Amethyst Ring (Unabridged)

The Road to Damietta (Unabridged)

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Rich in the atmosphere of 13th-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro's eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony.

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980L
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07:48
The Road to Damietta (Unabridged)

The 290 (Unabridged)

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Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he's working on. It seems the ship, enigmatically named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy.

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910L
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02:33
The 290 (Unabridged)

Thunder Rolling In the Mountains (Unabridged)

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Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, narrates this tale of her tribe's fate, starting from her first encounter with white people in 1877.

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680L
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02:42
Thunder Rolling In the Mountains (Unabridged)

Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

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Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.

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Lexile: 
750L
Length: 
04:45
Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

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Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in the mid-1800s and was expected to live her life without the freedoms she dreamed of. But Charlotte was smart and determined, and she figured out a way to live her life the way she wanted. She became an expert horse rider, a legendary stagecoach driver, and the first woman ever to vote - at a time when such things were outlawed for women.

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Lexile: 
720L
Length: 
02:21
Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

Woods Runner (Unabridged)

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Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.

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870L
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03:42
Woods Runner (Unabridged)

The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (Unabridged)

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Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but - some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves.

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950L
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03:56
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (Unabridged)

Summer Reading Is Killing Me: Time Warp Trio, Book 7 (Unabridged)

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Joe, Fred, and Sam have no idea why they've been transported to a playground. All they know is that there's a 250-pound chicken and it's headed straight for them. While Joe's racking his brains for the magic words to stop a charging chicken, he suddenly has a flash of what's going to happen next. It's exactly like the book he just read.

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610L
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01:11
Summer Reading Is Killing Me: Time Warp Trio, Book 7 (Unabridged)

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