| Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
| by Elvira Woodruff
| J WOO
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| Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his 3,000 mile journey to Oregon in 1851.
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(Also look for the sequel: Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad)
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| Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...
| by Elvira Woodruff
| J WOO
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Marty receives a surprising reply when he writes a letter describing his spirited but sick grand-father to Napoleon Bonaparte.
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| The Disappearing Bike Shop
| by Elvira Woodruff
| J WOO
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Fifth-graders Freckle and Tyler meet an unusual bicycle salesman and inventor who turns out to be Leonardo da Vinci, traveling through time.
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| The Magnificent Mummy Maker
| by Elvira Woodruff
| J WOO
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The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings.
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| The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake
| by Elvira Woodruff
| J WOO
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Ten-year-old Nick lives above the funeral home run by his strict uncle, but he dreams of becoming a truck driver like his dead father.
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MORE BOOKS TO ENJOY:
Stories of the Revolutionary War.
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| The Fighting Ground
| by Avi
| J AVI
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Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
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| The Riddle of Penncroft Farm
| by Dorothea Jensen
| J JEN
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Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an 18th century ancestor, who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War.
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| Spy for George Washington
| by Jay Leibold
| J LEI
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You are a spy for the Colonists in the Revolutionary War. You've been entrusted with a special task: obtain the British plans and bring them back to General George Washington! But enemy patrols are everywhere. How can you get back through the British lines without suspicion? You decide in this Choose-Your-Own Adventure.
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| A Namesake for Nathan
| by F. N. Monjo
| J MON
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Joanna Hale recounts the events of 1776 as she and her family follow the activities of her brother Nathan in the Continental Army.
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| Guns for General Washington
| by Seymour Reit
| J REI
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| Frustrated by life under siege in Washington's army, 19-year-old Will Knox and his brother Colonel Henry Knox undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter.
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