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051060
Emmi in the city : a Great Chicago Fire survival story [Girls Survive]by Alikhan, Salima 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2019)


Publication Date: 02/01/2019

BTSB #: 051060 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 640

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction German Americans - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|yTo 1875 - Fiction


Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.


8.19 *

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461248
In the new world : a family in two centuries by Holtei, Christa 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2015)


Publication Date: 03/10/2015

BTSB #: 461248 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-9   
Lexile: 870 NC

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: German Americans - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Farmers - Fiction Germany - Immigration and emigration - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction


Summary: Follows a fictional German family making their way to the United States in 1850 and then, more than a century later, their descendants reversing the journey to find their roots.


23.06 *

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670895
Orphan band of Springdale by Nesbet, Anne 

Paperback(Candlewick Press, 2020)


Publication Date: 04/14/2020

BTSB #: 670895 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 6 MG RC: 5.7 6-8 Lexile: 880 F&P: X

Subjects: Orphanages - Fiction German Americans - Fiction


Summary: It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. She finds herself facing patriotism turned to prejudice, alien registration drives, and a family secret likely to turn the small town upside down.


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859212
Tiny piece of sky by Stout, Shawn K. 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2016)


Publication Date: 01/19/2016

BTSB #: 859212 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 830

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Family life - Maryland - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction German Americans - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Hagerstown (Md.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In 1939 Hagerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.


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