The blue door by Ann Rinaldi(1999)An historical novel about Amanda, a teenage girl in the 19th century who discovers first hand the harsh working conditions of textile mills. Quilt Trilogy #3.
The broken days by Ann Rinaldi(1995)In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war. Quilt Trilogy #2.
Canyons by Gary Paulsen(1990)Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Cherokee Rose : a novel of America's first cowgirl by Judy Alter(1996)Raised on an Oklahoma ranch where her father taught her to rope and ride, Tommy Jo Burns knew she was destined for greatness. At fourteen she so impressed Teddy Roosevelt that he dubbed her America's first cowgirl. Filled with dreams of joining a Wild West show, she left her parents to create her own family of friends on the road with Colonel Zack Miller's 101 Ranch Show. It was a new and exciting life so she took a new name: Cherokee Rose. Cherokee Rose's adventures would bring many different men into her life. She could rope with the best of them and she got tangled with a few: the awkward ranch hand, Bill Rodgers, who emerged on the show circuit as Will Rodgers; a handsome husband who resented her fame; a wealthy gambler who taught her to follow her heart. Filled with the excitement of the unconventional, Cherokee Rose captures the essence of this celebrated woman of the West.Syndetic
Circle of love by Joan Lowery Nixon(1997, 1998)Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
The coffin quilt : the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys by Ann Rinaldi(1999)In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
The final freedom by Bill Wallace(1997)When thirteen-year-old Will Burke and the famed Apache chief, Geronimo, forge a unique bond of friendship, each wins a special kind of freedom.
In the time of the wolves by Eileen Charbonneau(1994)Fourteen-year-old Joshua Woods would like nothing better than to leave his Catskill mountain home and follow his uncles to Harvard. But Joshua's father is refusing to let him go. Will Joshua betray his father?
The journal of Wong Ming-Chung : a Chinese miner by Laurence Yep(2000)A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
Last dance on Holladay Street by Elisa Lynn Carbone(2005)In 1878, thirteen-year-old Eva seeks her birth mother in Colorado, only to find the city and her mother are not what she imagined.
A little bit dead by Chap Reaver(1992)In 1876, after interfering with the attempted lynching of a young Yahi Indian named Shanti, eighteen-year-old Reece finds his own life in danger and becomes intimately involved in the future of Shanti's people.
Nell's quilt by Susan Terris(1987)Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen(1993)Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Sunshine rider : the first vegetarian western by Ric Lynden Hardman(1998)In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi(1990)As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
