books that are set in the late 1800s for teens.?

Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.

In 1899, eleven-year-old Calpurnia bonds over science and nature with her grandfather even as she becomes increasingly aware that she may not be able to pursue those interests as an adult.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou.

Fourteen-year-old Calogero emigrates to Louisiana in 1899, where his tiny Sicilian community faces discrimination and worse in a small town where they’re considered neither black nor white.

Frost, Helen. The Braid. 2006. ,

In tightly structured, braided poems, two sisters tell of their difficult separation when one leaves Scotland for a better life in Canada in the mid-1800s.

Gratz, Alan. Samurai Shortstop. 2006.

In 1890 Tokyo, 16-year-old Toyo uses traditional bushido training to improve his baseball game and comes to understand the place of Samurai values in Japanese culture

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