In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Margret and Flynn, 1875 by Kathleen Duey
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
Stop the Train! A Novel by Geraldine McCaughrean
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.
More Historical Fiction --
Anna's Blizzard by Alison Hart
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Barn by Avi
Daniel's Walk by Michael Spooner
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mable Riley by Marthe Jocelyn
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
The Wanigan: Life on the River by Gloria Whelan
The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt
Worth by A. LaFaye
Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through April 22, 2016.
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