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Lexile/Reading Level
820L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Military and Wars | Poetry | Women's Suffrage
Geographic Region
Michigan | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Young Hoosier Middle Grades
Format
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Crossing Stones

Author: Frost, Helen

Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel.
Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family’s closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families’ lives have been intertwined, connected by the crossing stones that span the water. But now that Frank Norman—who Muriel is just beginning to think might be more than a friend—has enlisted to fight in World War I and her brother, Ollie, has lied about his age to join him, the future is uncertain. As Muriel tends to things at home with the help of Frank’s sister, Emma, she becomes more and more fascinated by the women’s suffrage movement, but she is surrounded by people who advise her to keep her opinions to herself. How can she find a way to care for those she loves while still remaining true to who she is?

Written in beautifully structured verse, Crossing Stones captures nine months in the lives of two resilient families struggling to stay together and cross carefully, stone by stone, into a changing world.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-9 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Military and Wars
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Format
Book | Ebook

Falcons of France

Author: Nordhoff, Charles Bernard

First they learned to fly penguins-tricky birds that almost never flew in a straight line.Then, the best of them, went on to master the coveted Hispano Spads, sleek ships that refused to go down.

And those who could stand the firey pace became the men of the Lafayette Flying Corps, ready to do combat with the top German aces.Facing crackling machine-gun fire, the wings of their planes often riddled with bullets, they struck at the heart of the enemy’s winged power.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1910s
Topic
Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
Oklahoma | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Old Buzzard Had It Coming (Alafair Tucker #1)

Author: Casey, DonisPart of a Series: Alafair Tucker

One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers’ tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe’s mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that something is amiss. How could she know her daughter has been involved in a violent confrontation that will make Phoebe and her beau murder suspects?
At supper that evening, over bowls of soupy beans and buttery cornbread, Alafair, her husband Shaw, and their nine lively children, much amused that Phoebe has a boyfriend, discuss the unfortunate Day family. The Days are tormented by their evil father, who beats his wife, mistreats his children, and wastes their money. The mother is helpless, and the eldest daughter, Maggie Ellen, has run away, leaving only 19-year-old John Lee and his 13-year-old sister Naomi to care for the younger children and keep the family from destitution.
Then… well, the old buzzard had it coming!
This Best Unpublished Mystery of 2004 (The Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc.) is the first in a new series.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern | World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Greek History | War
Geographic Region
Europe | Greece
Main Character
Boy(s) | Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Long Shadow

Author: Proctor, Loretta

The city lay in a beautiful bay. As the sun rose we began to see the sprawl of little Turkish houses clambering the steep slopes, painted in rosy pink, mauve, white, yellow, blue. The white domes of the Greek churches glistened in the fresh morning sunshine. The Long Shadow is compelling historical novel which tells the human story of the Eastern campaign in Salonika and will appeal to readers of The Island and The Thread. Fourteen-year-old Andrew discovers his mother’s hidden diary at his grandmother’s house during a Christmas holiday. His eyes are opened to a family secret when he reads about her time as a nurse on Salonika during the First World War, and the tragic love affair she had with his father, a Greek officer, who died in battle. Four years later Andrew is compelled to visit his father’s country and trace his roots. What – and whom – he meets there will change his life forever. The Long Shadow is filled with descriptions of Greece and its people, dramatic images of battles and the terrible conditions endured by the allied armies fighting around Salonika. The Long Shadow illuminates a period of history not often featured in fiction and is highly topical as we approach the centenary of WW1 in 2014.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Russian Revolution
Date
1910s
Topic
Revolution | Romanovs | Russia
Geographic Region
Eurasia | Russia
Main Character
Family
Format
Book

House of Special Purpose, The

Author: Falconer, Colin

HouseFor years no one knew what happened to Czar Nicholas and his family after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It was decades before the whole truth came out.

The deadly account of what happened to them in Ekatinerberg, in the House of Special Purpose draws on eyewitness accounts and is told from the point of view of Anastasia, the Czar’s youngest daughter. The facts are so ghastly – and so farcical – they defy belief.

The story brings to vivid life the events of the last months of the Romanovs and is the prequel to Colin Falconer’s best selling novel: Anastasia.

How was it possible for any of the children to have survived?

You won’t believe the answer; except that it’s all true.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Irish Independence
Date
1910s | 1920s
Topic
Irish | War
Geographic Region
Europe | Ireland | United Kingdom
Main Character
Family
Format
Book | Ebook

Gatekeepers (The O’Deirg Legacy Book 2)

Author: Sutton, RichardPart of a Series: O'Deirg Legacy

How do you keep a secret from family? Is there any point in trying? The O’Deirgs must protect their ancient Irish legacy. But with their family growing steadily and Civil War violence creeping closer, their happy life is upended again as lost family returns from America. The Irish Civil War, raging in the cities, now threatens to engulf another family member in it’s terrible struggle. Maybe the blame lies with the local butcher, his shady secrets and his well-spiced sausages, or on the O’Deirgs’ long history, or on the cousins from America, or on the practices of the Church, or on the local Innkeeper’s past, or on the sheep – or maybe not. The Gatekeepers is the sequel to The Red Gate, which introduced the O’Deirg Secret to the world.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grades & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1910s
Topic
4th of July | Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
Oklahoma | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook | MP3

Drop Edge of Yonder (Alafair Tucker #3)

Author: Casey, DonisPart of a Series: Alafair Tucker

Alafair Tucker is desperate to find out. One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ended a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bills fiance, and wounding Alafairs daughter Mary. All Mary knows is that the crime had something to do with the Fourth of July.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Science Fiction

Historical Time Period
Russian Empire
Date
1910s
Topic
Russia | Time Travel | Tsars
Geographic Region
Eurasia | Russia
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Past Time

Author: Llewellyn, Michael

Michael Llewellyn is the author of nineteen published novels in multiple genres including historical fiction and mystery. Past Time is the second in his time travel series and continues the adventures of Madeleine “Maddy” St. Jacques, a New Orleans librarian with a passion for history and amateur sleuthing. Her older paramour and partner in time crime is Henri Chabrol, a Tulane University professor with access to parallel universes via the secretive August Ones. In the first book, Still Time, Madeleine was hurtled back to 1861 New Orleans, a world of black masters, white slaves, glamorous courtesans of color and assorted shady souls out to thwart her mission. In Past Time, she travels to Tsarist Russia where she is thrust into the midst of a power struggle for control of the largest—and most unstable—empire on earth. Once again Madeleine struggles to learn why she was sent back in time and how she might keep history on course. The truth eventually comes, but at a terrible price.
From the back cover:
The August Ones are back!
Those enigmatic entities manipulating age-old time corridors have once again propelled New Orleans librarian Madeleine St. Jacques into the past. This time her destination is Russia circa 1914, an empire ruled by Tsar Nicholas II and the fabled Romanov dynasty. Arriving in frozen, wintry St. Petersburg, Madeleine finds herself amid grand dukes and duchesses, gypsies and imperial guardsmen, ferocious revolutionaries and corrupt holy men, each with a disparate stake in a doomed nation hurtling toward apocalypse.
“If those superstitious fools learn you’re a time traveler, they’ll tear you to pieces!”
As the guest of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, Madeleine is seduced by the opulent Romanov world of endless balls, glittering soirees and oceans of vodka while the furtive monster of revolution lurks just outside the palace doors. Her royal idyll is imperiled when she discovers the most imminent threat to the dynasty lies within the family itself and wonders if it’s her destiny to stop it before it’s…
PAST TIME.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Lies | Military and Wars | Romance
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Lies Told in Silence

Author: Tod, M.K.

In May 1914, Helene Noisette’s father believes war is imminent. Convinced Germany will head straight for Paris, he sends his wife, daughter, mother and younger son to Beaufort, a small village in northern France. But when war erupts two months later, the German army invades neutral Belgium, sweeping south towards Paris. And by the end of September, Beaufort is less than twenty miles from the front. During the years that follow, with the rumbling of guns ever present in the distance, three generations of women come together to cope with deprivation, fear and the dreadful impacts of war. In 1917, Helene falls in love with a young Canadian soldier wounded in the battle of Vimy Ridge. But war has a way of separating lovers and families, of twisting promises and dashing hopes, and of turning the naive and innocent into the jaded and war-weary. As the months pass, Helene is forced to reconcile dreams for the future with harsh reality.

Lies Told in Silence examines love and loss, duty and sacrifice, and the unexpected consequences of lies.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1910s
Topic
Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
Oklahoma | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook | MP3

Hornswoggled (Alafair Tucker #2)

Author: Casey, DonisPart of a Series: Alafair Tucker

Its the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice’s new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice’s mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has a weakness for the ladies–and they for him. Moreover, Walter’s late wife Louise had been stabbed in the heart and her body disposed of in Cane Creek only a few months earlier. The murderer has not been caught.
The sheriff has cleared Walter of the deed–he has an alibi. But Alafair is not so sure that he wasn’t involved in some way. Something literally doesn’t smell right. Could it be Louise’s tormented spirit signaling clues from the other side, or is Alafair scenting a more direct link to the crime?

Even if he had nothing to do with his wife’s death, Alafair judges Walter to have been a bad husband and, with the help of her feisty mother-in-law, Sally McBride, Alafair sets out to prove to the headstrong Alice that Walter is not the paragon she thinks he is. You can bet that Alice has something to say back.
As she searches for the truth behind the death of Louise Kelley, Alafair uncovers such a tangle of lies, misdirection, and deceit that she begins to think that the whole town has been downright hornswoggled!

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