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Abe Lincoln At Last!

author: Osborne, Mary Pope
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 187
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
subjects: lincoln, abraham, presidents, white house (washington, d.c.), time travel, magic, brothers and sisters [X], siblings, historical fiction [X], family life, families [X]

Gingersnap

author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540

The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963

author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000

So Much For Democracy

author: Jones, Kari
"Twelve-year-old Astrid has come to Ghana with her family in 1979 so that her father can help oversee Ghana's first democratic election.
FIC
year:
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: families [X], brothers and sisters [X], elections, siblings, ghana, family life, democracy, canadians, historical fiction [X], domestic fiction, electronic books

The Trap

author: Arntson, Steven
In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: supernatural, families [X], twins, immortality, friendship, iowa, best friends, brothers and sisters [X], family life, siblings, historical fiction [X], paranormal fiction

Redeemed

author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: family life, brothers and sisters [X], twins, space and time, time travel, siblings, science fiction, families [X], time-travel fiction, historical fiction [X]

Cake Pops With Rosa Parks

author: Steinkraus, Kyla
Rosa Parks makes a special visit to the Sweets Shop and whisks Finley and Fiona away on a historic journey of courage.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: parks, rosa, civil rights, families [X], brothers and sisters [X], confectionary, historical fiction [X]

The Liars Of Mariposa Island

author: Mathieu, Jennifer
"Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
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A Place To Hang The Moon

author: Albus, Kate
In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, orphans, brothers and sisters [X], families [X], villages, family life, siblings, great britain, historical fiction [X]

A Sky Painted Gold

author: Wood, Laura
In 1929 in a sleepy Cornish village, aspiring writer Lou Trevelyan, age seventeen, is introduced to the glamour and secrets of high society by summer neighbors Caitlin and Robert Cardew.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families [X], wealth, brothers and sisters [X], coming of age, family life, cornwall (england : county), great britain, bildungsromans, historical fiction [X]

My Vicksburg

author: Rinaldi, Ann
During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

Las Mentiras De La Isla Mariposa

author: Mathieu, Jennifer
"Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers and sisters [X], families [X], family secrets, immigrants, family life, secrets, spanish language materials, historical fiction [X]

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