Children's Fiction Books about Illinois:
(Descriptions are taken from the book jackets)
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| Title: Fire, Chicago, 1871, 1998. |
| Author: Kathleen Duey |
| Call Number: J PB DUEY |
| Description: While spreading flames threaten to cut off all possibility
of escape from the Chicago fire of 1871, 12-year-old Nate attempts to save
a wealthy young girl and return home safely. |
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| Title: Across Five Aprils, 1964. |
| Author: Irene Hunt |
| Call Number: J HUNT |
| Description: Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he
is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult
years of the Civil War. |
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| Title: The Secret of the Red Flame, 2002. |
| Author: K. M. Kimball |
| Call Number: J KIMBALL |
| Description: Jozef and his friends form a secret society to infiltrate
the gangs that have been victimizing the Polish-American community in 1871
Chicago. |
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| Title: Ellen's Story; part of the American Quilts series,
2000. |
| Author: Susan E. Kirby |
| Call Number: J PB KIRBY |
| Description: Growing up on an Illinois farm in 1830, Ellen learns to adapt
to her "patchwork family." |
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| Title: Over the River, 2002. |
| Author: Sharelle Byars Moranville |
| Call Number: J MORANVILLE |
| Description: In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the
Illinois town where she has lived for the last five years. |
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| Title: A Long Way from Chicago, 1998. |
| Author: Richard Peck |
| Call Number: J PB PECK |
| Description: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois
with his sister during the Great Depression. |
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| Title: A Year Down Yonder, 2000. |
| Author: Richard Peck |
| Call Number: JP 336ye |
| Description: During the recession of 1937, 15-year-old Mary Alice is sent
to live with her feisty grandmother in rural Illinois. This book is the
sequel to A Long Way from Chicago. |
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