Contemporary American

Immigration in Late 1800s
 

Agnes’s Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand
Anna’s Prayer: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand
And Forever Free, by Joanne Williamson
Ida’s Witness: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand
Samuel Sailing: The True Story of an Immigrant Boy by Karl Beckstrand
 

Early 1900’s – Great Depression

Bright April, by Margurite de Angeli 
 Copper-Toed Boots, by Margurite de Angeli 
The Lion in the Box, by Margurite de Angeli 
Come on Sea Biscuit  by Ralph Moody
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
If You Lived 100 Years Ago, by Ann McGovern
Henner’s Lydia by Margurite de Angeli 
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
Orphan Train, by Verla Kay
The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America by  Cheryl Harness
Rachel Carson Who Loved the Sea, Jean Lee Latham
Samuel F.B. Morse, Jean Lee Latham
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, by Clara Ingram Judson
The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit

WWI & II

What Was D-Day? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
Whistle for the Crossing by  Marguerite de Angeli
Wings Forever, by Verla Kay
 

1950’s

The Brookline Trunk, by Louise Andrews Kent