| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Andrews, J.S. The Man from the Sea. 1970.
- A ship-wrecked stranger brings the first bronze to Euan's village in Ireland, thirty-six hundred years ago.
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| YP | - Carter, Dorothy Sharp. His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut. 1987.
- In ancient Egypt, Queen Hatshepsut has herself declared king so she will have more power.
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| YP | - Denzel, Justin F. Boy of the Painted Cave. 1988.
- A lame boy becomes a cave painter in what will become southern France some eighteen thousand years later.
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| YP | - Malvern, Gladys. Behold Your Queen! 1951.
- A young Hebrew girl becomes the bride of Ahasuerus (Xerxes) and saves her people from death in a retelling of the Biblical story of Esther.
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| YP | - Osborne, Chester G. The Memory String.
1984.
- Darath and his sister spend a winter on the Siberian peninsula thirty thousand years ago, as their tribe prepares to search for a legendary, game-filled land to the east (now called North America).
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| + | - Pryor, Bonnie. Seth of the Lion People. 1988.
- A boy with a crippled leg is merely tolerated by his prehistoric tribe, until he proves his courage and value.
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| YP | - Sutcliff, Rosemary. Sun Horse, Moon Horse. 1977.
- A boy in pre-Roman Britain becomes chief of his tribe at great cost to himself.
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| + | - Treece, Henry. The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War. 1967.
- The Trojan War is seen through the eyes of Asterius, a slave boy.
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| Code | Book |
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| + | - Bulla, Clyde Robert. The Beast of Lor. 1977.
- A boy fleeing his village and an elephant fleeing Julius Caesar's army make their way together through a strange adventure.
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| YP | - Haugaard, Erik Christian. The Rider and His Horse. 1968.
- After Rome conquers Jerusalem, David ben Joseph must decide whether or not to join the Zealots at Masada in a last-stand defense (A.D. 73).
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| YP | - Hunter, Mollie. The Stronghold. 1974.
- Coll saves his beloved from becoming a Druid sacrifice and then struggles to save the same Druids from Roman slavery in the Scotland of two thousand years ago.
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| YP | - Polland, Madeleine A. To Tell My People. 1968.
- When Caesar's legions land in ancient Britain, Lumna and her brother are torn between their ancient culture and the new one of Rome.
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| YP | - Speare, Elizabeth George. The Bronze Bow. 1961.
- David Bar Jamin joins an outlaw band dedicated to driving the Roman legions from Israel, but a man named Jesus suggests Daniel's blind hatred will only destroy those he loves best.
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| YP | - Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Eagle of the Ninth. 1954.
- A young Roman centurion searches for the missing eagle standard which symbolized the Ninth Legion, lost in Scotland under his father's command.
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Mystery | - Winterfeld, Henry. Detectives in Togas.
1956.
- Seven Roman schoolboys solve a peculiar mystery involving
stolen math textbooks and graffiti on a temple wall.
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| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Almedingen, E. M. A Candle at Dusk. 1969.
- Idrun overcomes his father's opposition and learns to read and write, but his education is interrupted by the invasion of the Saracens in eighth-century Frankland (later France).
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| + | - Bulla, Clyde Robert. Viking Adventure. 1963.
- A young Viking named Sigurd joins the crew of a ship sailing to Wineland (North America) in A.D. 1000.
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| YP | - Dickinson, Peter. The Dancing Bear. 1972.
- A Greek slave, his dancing bear, and an old holy man set off from Byzantium to rescue the slave's owner from the Huns in the sixth century.
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| YP | - Trease, Geoffrey. Escape to King Alfred. 1958.
- In 878, three children escape Viking captivity and make a dangerous journey to West Saxony, where King Alfred is preparing to unify England and free it from invaders.
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| YP | - Treece, Henry. Viking's Dawn. 1956.
- A young Norseman boards a Viking ship in search of adventure and riches in 780.
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| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Baumann, Hans. Sons of the Steppe: the Story of How the Conqueror Genghis Khan was Overcome. 1958.
- The grandsons of Genghis Khan learn the ways of Mongol warriors and join in the conquest of Asia, but the once inseparable brothers become bitter enemies when the younger, Kublai Khan, claims the empire.
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| + | - Carrick, Donald. Harald and the Great Stag. 1988.
- When the Baron plans to hunt and kill the near-legendary Great Stag, Harald sets out to save the animal.
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| Y | - Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy. 1994.
- The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventure and her efforts to avoid an arranged marriage.
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| + | - De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall. 1949.
- Robin, the crippled son of a great lord, proves his courage and wins his king's recognition in fourteenth-century England.
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| YP | - Konigsburg, E. L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver. 1973.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine and three friends remember the twelfth century as they sit in heaven awaiting the entrance of King Henry II of Englanda fantastic setting, but with historically accurate details.
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| + | - Lasker, Joe. A Tournament of Knights. 1986.
- Justin prepares for his first tournament while Sir Rolf, a tournament veteran, prepares to defeat him.
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| YP | - Paterson, Katherine. Of Nightingales That Weep. 1974.
- The vain daughter of a samurai finds her comfortable life ripped apart when warrior clans struggle for imperial control of twelfth-century Japan.
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| Y | - Rupert, Janet E. The African Mask. 1994.
- Layo, a Yoruba girl of the eleventh century, attempts to reject the man chosen to be her husband.
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| J | - Skurzynski, Gloria. The Minstrel in the Tower. 1988.
- In 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister travel the French countryside in search of their mother's wealthy estranged brother.
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| YP | - Sutcliff, Rosemary. Knight's Fee. 1960.
- A chess game changes Randall's life forever, transforming him from lowly dog-boy to the dear companion of a knight's son.
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| Y | - Temple, Frances. The Ramsay Scallop. 1994.
- Fourteen-year-old Elenor and her betrothed are sent on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain at the end of the thirteenth century.
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| YP | - Treece, Henry. Perilous Pilgrimage. 1959.
- In 1212, a French shepherd boy begins a Holy Lands crusade composed entirely of childrena pilgrimage with tragic consequences.
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| Code | Book |
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| Y | - Bosse, Malcolm. The Examination. 1994.
- Hong and his brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through fifteenth-century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar.
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| YP | - Chute, Marchette. The Wonderful Winter. 1954.
- In 1596, twelve-year-old Sir Robert Wakefield (Robin) runs away from home and spends the winter working in a theater with William Shakespeare.
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| + | - Courlander, Harold. The Son of the Leopard. 1974.
- A young man in fifteenth-century Africa seems
- to be the reincarnation of a violent man, but he finds a way to change his apparent destiny.
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| YP | - Harnett, Cynthia. Caxton's Challenge. 1959.
- Bendy becomes apprenticed to William Caxton, owner of England's first printing press, and finds himself mixed up with a missing manuscript and a plot against King Edward IV.
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| Y | - Molina Llorente, Pilar. The Apprentice. 1993.
- A young boy has many choices to make when he is apprenticed to a famous artist in Renaissance Florence.
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| YP | - Paton Walsh, Jill. The Emperor's Winding Sheet. 1974.
- A shipwrecked English boy becomes a lucky talisman for Constantine, the last Roman emperor, and witnesses the end of the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century.
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| YP | - Willard, Barbara. The Lark and the Laurel.
1970.
- Cecily's father flees Henry Tudor's England in 1485 and leaves his daughter in the care of a peculiar aunt she doesn't know.
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| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Beatty, John and Patricia. Campion Towers. 1965.
- In 1651, American Penitence Hervey visits her family in England and becomes involved in the English civil war between Oliver Cromwell's Puritans and Charles Stuart's Cavaliers.
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| YP | - Cross, Gilbert B. A Hanging at Tyburn. 1983.
- A fourteen-year-old orphan with a mysterious past is sentenced to death during the turmoil of building the first cross-country canal in eighteenth-century England.
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| YP | - Garfield, Leon. Smith. 1967.
- A twelve-year-old pickpocket in eighteenth-century London unwittingly steals a document which is useless to himbut someone else is willing to kill for it.
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| + | - Henry, Marguerite. King of the Wind: the Story of the Godolphin Arabian. 1948.
- A horse born in Morocco in the eighteenth century is given to King Louis XV of France and then becomes a cart-horse in England.
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| + | - Haugaard, Erik Christian. A Messenger for Parliament.
1976.
- Eleven-year-old Oliver is drawn into the early events of the English Civil War, which unseated Charles I and brought Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans to power.
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| YP | - Paterson, Katherine. The Master Puppeteer. 1975.
- A boy in eighteenth-century Osaka joins a group of puppeteers and slowly realizes that someone he knows is controlling the entire city.
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| YP | - Paton Walsh, Jill. A Parcel of Patterns. 1983.
- Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village in 1665, and how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent the spread of the disease.
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| YP | - Sutcliff, Rosemary. Flame-Colored Taffeta. 1986.
- Twelve-year-old Damaris finds a wounded man in the woods and enlists her friends Genty Small and Peter to help care for him, but they cannot tell whether he is a common smuggler or a spy for the French.
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| YP | - Treviño, Elizabeth Borton de. I, Juan de Pareja. 1965.
- In seventeenth-century Spain, a young slave named Juan de Pareja becomes assistant, companion, and friend to the artist Velázquez.
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| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Beatty, Patricia. Jonathan Down Under. 1982.
- Thirteen-year-old Jonathan and his luckless miner father head for the Australian goldfields in the mid-nineteenth century.
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| YP | - Crofford, Emily. Born in the Year of Courage. 1991.
- After a shipwreck in 1841, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to live in America and work toward opening trade between his country (Japan) and the West.
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| YP | - Carter, Peter. The Black Lamp. 1973.
- In 1819, the son of an English weaver becomes enmeshed in the struggle of the weavers against the mill owners, who are bringing in machine-driven looms.
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| + | - Dupasquier, Philippe. Jack at Sea. 1986.
- Life aboard a British warship during the Napoleanic Wars (1800-14) brings Jack into contact with a naval battle, press gangs, floggings, and a shipwreck before he finally makes his way home.
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| YP | - Garfield, Leon. Young Nick and Jubilee. 1989.
- Two orphans adopt a father (occupation: thief) in order to attend a charity school in London.
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| YP | - Kay, Mara. Masha. 1968.
- In 1814, Masha wins admission to the Smolni Institute for Noble Girls, and spends nine difficult and exciting years in Russia's most famous girls' school.
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YP
Mystery | - Newman, Robert. The Case of the Baker Street Irregular. 1978.
- A young boy obtains the help of Sherlock Holmes when his tutor disappears in Victorian London.
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| YP | - Paterson, Katherine. Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom. 1983.
- In China, a fifteen-year-old slave is rescued by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society dedicated to overthrowing the Manchu government.
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YP
Mystery | - Pullman, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke. 1987.
- Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search through London's underworld for a mysterious ruby.
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| + | - Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse. 1877.
- Beauty's adventures take him from a good home to a horse's worst nightmare.
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| YP | - Yep, Laurence. The Serpent's Children. 1984.
- A Chinese girl struggles to protect her family from bandits, famine, and conflict between her father and her brother.
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| Code | Book |
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| J | - Ackerman, Karen. The Night Crossing. 1994.
- In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains to Switzerland.
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| YP | - Dank, Milton. Khaki Wings: A Novel. 1980.
- In the summer of 1914, seventeen-year-old Edward applies to the Royal Flying Corps and finds himself in the midst of World War I.
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| Y | - Foreman, Michael. War Game. 1993.
- Based on a true episode, readers learn what war was like in the trenches of World War I one memorable Christmas Eve.
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| YP | - Frank, Rudolf. No Hero for the Kaiser. 1986.
- Jan, a Polish boy whose town is invaded during World War I, joins a German battalion and experiences the horrors of war.
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| YP | - Kerr, Judith. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. 1971.
- A Jewish girl and her family flee from Germany to England in 1933.
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| YP | - Morpurgo, Michael. War Horse. 1982.
- Joey, a horse, recalls his experiences on an English farm, his terrifying experiences as a World War I cavalry horse, and his reunion with his dear master.
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| + | - Seredy, Kate. The Good Master.* 1935.
- Life on his father's farm in Hungary is pleasant but dull for Jancsi until Cousin Kate arrives from the city.
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| + | - Vogel, Ilse-Margret. Tikhon. 1984.
- A Russian soldier, trapped without identification papers in post-World War I Germany, becomes a companion to young Inge when her parents hide him.
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| Code | Book |
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| YP | - Benary-Isbert, Margot. The Ark.* 1953.
- In the aftermath of World War II, the Lechow family moves to Germany's Western Zone and finds a new home in an old railroad car.
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| Y | - Case, Diane. 92 Queens Road. 1991.
- Kathy recalls her sixth year, when she first learned what it meant to be classified as "Coloured" in the Apartheid system of South Africa.
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| Y | - Chang, Margaret. In the Eye of War. 1990.
- During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.
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| + | - Cheney, Cora. The Treasures of Lin Li-Ti. 1969.
- A young boy struggles to survive after being separated from his family during the evacuation from mainland Communist China to the Nationalist island of Formosa in 1949.
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| Y | - Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes. 1991.
- Sookan's family survives the Japanese occupation of North Korea during the 1942, but when the Japanese are replaced by Russian Communists, the family's only hope seems to be escape to South Korea.
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| YP | - Haugaard, Erik Christian. The Little Fishes. 1967.
- Three Italian war-orphans travel from Naples to Cassino in 1943, searching for food and a place to live.
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| YP | - Lutzeier, Elizabeth. The Wall. 1992.
- After her mother is killed trying to escape across the Berlin Wall in 1989, Hannah and her father join the demonstrations against the East German government.
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| J | - Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. 1989.
- Ten-year-old Annemarie and her family become part of the Danish Resistance when they shelter Ellen, Annemarie's Jewish friend, from the Nazis.
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MAR | - Marx, Trish. Hanna's Cold Winter. 1993.
- Tibor tells how the people of Budapest kept the zoo's hippos from starving one cold winter during World War II.
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| + | - McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure. 1942.
- A group of children help smuggle gold out of Norway during the Nazi occupation in an exciting story based on fact.
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| + | - Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. The Lily Cupboard. 1992.
- During the German occupation of Holland, Miriam is hidden with non-Jewish people living in the country.
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| Y | - Orlev, Uri. Lydia, Queen of Palestine. 1993.
- Lydia, a self-proclaimed "terror," survives her parents' divorce, the chaos of World War II, and relocation from Romania to a kibbutz in Palestine.
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| YP | - Paton Walsh, Jill. The Dolphin Crossing. 1967.
- Two boys and their boat Dolphin assist in the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk during World War II.
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| Y | - Reuter, Bjarne B. The Boys from St. Petri. 1994.
- In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
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| + | - Say, Allen. The Bicycle Man. 1982.
- Two American soldiers do amazing bicycle tricks for an audience of Japanese schoolchildren in Allied-occupied Japan.
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| + | - Wartski, Maureen Crane. A Boat to Nowhere. 1980.
- An old man and three children become boat people, attempting to escape from Vietnam to Thailand in the 1970s.
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| YP | - Westall, Robert. The Machine Gunners. 1976.
- After a German fighter plane is shot down, a group of English children find a machine gun still intact and decide to hide it from the authorities.
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