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By JES

Here are a few titles I was able to find quickly.

JASON'S GOLD by Will Hobbs -- 1897 Klondike gold rush

GIB RIDES HOME by Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- growing up at Lovell House Orphanage in 1908

FARAWAY SUMMER by Johanna Hurwitz -- A poor Russian immigrant from New York tenements spends 2 weeks in the summer of 1910 on a Vermont farm.

A TRAITOR AMONG US by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk -- Dutch Resistance at work in 1944 occupied Holland

LILY'S CROSSING by Patricia Reilly Giff -- 1944

Great Depression Era:

NOWHERE TO CALL HOME by Cynthia DeFelice

OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse

TREASURES IN THE DUST by Tracey Porter

I hope this is helpful. I will let you know if I find others. I love this new social studies board!

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