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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
by Peter and Connie Roop
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
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Topics
Women's History,
19th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Lerner Publishing Group, 1985, Minneapolis, MN
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
by Freedman, Russell
A documentary of child labor from the photographs of Lewis Hine.
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Topics
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award Golden Kite Award
- Publisher Clarion, 1994, New York, NY
Kids on Strike!
by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Bartoletti highlights the roles that children and young adults played in American labor strikes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Topics
Women's History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Sandpiper, 2003, New York, NY
Legend of the Teddy Bear, The
by Murphy, Frank
The legend of how Teddy Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a cornered bear inspired the name of a popular children's toy.
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Topics
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Sleeping Bear Press, 2000, Chelsea, MI
Life on a Plantation
by Kalman, Bobbie
A look at plantation life and its use of slavery.
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Crabtree, 1997, New York, NY
Award Key
- Caldecott Medal
- Most distinguished American picture book for children (annually).
- Newberry Medal
- Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (annually).
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Distinguished books by authors and illustrators of African descent which promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream (annually).
- Golden Kite Award
- Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).
- Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Outstanding work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher set in the New World.
