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Based on Fact!  A selection of narrative nonfiction

Today is 11/20/2008

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Booklists are available in the publication rack of the Youth Services Department.

Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor

   (J 331.3 FRE)

     by Russell Freedman

Hear That Train Whistle Blow: How the Railroad Changed the World

  (J 385 MEL)

     by Milton Meltzer

Call of the Wolves (J 599.74 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

Rascal (J 599.744 NOR)

     by Sterling North

When Plague Strikes (J 614.49 GIB)

      by James Cross Giblin

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever    

  Epidemic of 1793 (J 614.5 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

Gone a-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale

  (J 639.28 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (J 910.4 HAV)

     by Iola Haverstick

Across America on An Emigrant Train (J 917.3 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

Trial by Ice (J 919.89 KOS)

     by K.M. Kostgal

Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the

  Jews (J 940.5318 LEV)

     by Ellen Levine

Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady (J 949.7 OGR)

     by Scott O’Grady

We Were There, Too!  Young People in American History (J 973 HOO)

     by Phillip Hoose

American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750 – 1800 (J 973.3 AME)

     Milton Meltzer, ed.

A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy (J 973.3 MUR)

    by  Jim Murphy

Long Road to Gettysburg (J 973.7 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

The Boys War (J 973.7 MUR)

     by Jim Murphy

Voices From the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great American Conflict (J 973.7 VOI)

      Milton Meltzer, ed.

Blizzard  (J 974.7 MUR)

      by Jim Murphy

Inside the Alamo (J 975.4351 MUR)

      by Jim Murphy

The Great Fire (J 977.311 MUR)

      by Jim Murphy

Empires Lost and Won: The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest (J 979 MAR)

      by Albert Marrin

The Great American Gold Rush  (J 979.4 BLU)

      by Rhoda Blumberg

The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party (J 979.4 CAL)

      by Marian Calabro

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackelton’s Amazing Voyage (J 998 ARM)

     by Jennifer Armstrong

Ice Story (J 998 KIM)

     by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives (YA 579 FAR)

      by Jeanette Farrell