- Laurgaard, Rachel. Patty Reid's Doll.
- Morrow, Mary Frances. Sarah Winnemucca. Milwaukee: Raintree Publishers, 1990. (32 ps.)
- Rossi, Joyce. The Gullywasher. Flagstaff, Ariz.:Northland Pub., 1995. (unpaged)
- Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread. NY: Beech Tree Paperback, 1995. (136 ps.) Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II. (Japan)
- Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830 - 32: a novel. NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1979. (144 ps.)
- Corcoran, Barbara. The Sky is Falling. New York: Atheneum, 1988. In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named
- Fradin, Dennis. The New Hampshire Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988. (144 ps.)
- Stein, Conrad. New Hampshire. NY: Children's Press. (144 ps.)
- Fradin, Dennis. New Jersey Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1991. (158 ps.)
- Knight, James. The Village: Life in Colonial Times. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Assoc., 1982.
- Myers, Walter Dean. Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid. NY: Delacorte Press, 1988. (154 ps.)
- Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. NY: Simon & Schuster Books, 2004. (unp)
- Walker, Sally. The 18 Penny Goose. NY: HarperCollins Pub, 1998.
- Hayes, Joe. The Day It Snowed Tortillas.
- Johnston *, Tony. Alice Nizzy Nazzy, the Witch of Santa Fe. NY: Putnam's, 1995. (unp)
- Lowell, Susan. The Three Little Javelinas. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Pub., 1992. (unp) (trickster story)
- McDermott, Gerald. Arrow To the Sun. NY: Puffin Books, 1977. (42 ps.)
- Nez, Redwing T. Forbidden Talent. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Pub., 1995. (unp)
- Rodanas, Kristina. Dragonfly's Tale. NY: Clarion Books, 1991. (29 ps.)
- San Souci, Robert D. Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale. NY: HarperCollins, 2000. (32 ps.) [NEW MEXICO] (Cinderella variant)
- Smith, MaryLou M. Grandmother's Adobe Dollhouse.
- Soto , Gary. Too Many Tamales. NY: PaperStar, 1996. (32 ps.) [ Resources ]
- Bader, Bonnie. East Side Story. New York: Silver Moon Press, 1993. (72 pages) A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.
- Bartone, Elisa. Peppe The Lamplighter. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993. (unpaged) Based on a family story about the author's grandfather who emigrated from Avellino, near Naples, this tells of how Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood. (Italy)
- Collier, Bryan. Uptown. NY: Holt, 1999. (32 ps.)
- Creary, Eve M. A Silent Witness in Harlem. New York: Silver Moon Press, 2002. (91 ps.) Felicia's grandmother tells her the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Lily, who witnessed a mysterious kidnapping one night in 1928 Harlem, New York.
- Dell, Pamela. The Gold Coin: A Story About New York's Lower East Side and Its Immigrants. Excelsior, Minn.: Tradition Pub., 2003. (47 pages) In 1901, thirteen-year-old Dimitri, his younger brother, and their parents are beginning to feel at home in New York City's Lower East Side, where they have lived since their Jewish faith led them to flee Russia thirteen months earlier.
- Forest, Heather. The Baker's Dozen: A Colonial American Tale. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. (32 ps.) [DUTCH NEW YORK] (See: Shepard, Aaron)
- George, Jean Craighead. Moon of the Owls. NY: HarperCollins, 1993. (47 ps.) [Catskills]
- George, Jean Craighead. One Day in the Woods. NY: HarperCollins, 1988. (42 ps.) (Teatown Woods - Hudson Highlands)
- Goldin, Barbara Diamond. Fire!: The Beginnings of the Labor Movement. New York: Puffin Books, 1992. (54 pages) In 1911, Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions in factories when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where her older sister Freyda is employed.
- Hartfield, Claire. Me and Uncle Romie: A Story Inspired by the Life and Art of Romare Bearden. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002. (unp) A boy from North Carolina spends the summer in New York City visiting the neighborhood of Harlem, where his uncle, collage artist Romare Bearden, grew up. Includes a biographical sketch of Bearden and instructions on making a story collage.
- Harvey, Brett. Immigrant Girl: Becky of Eldridge Street. New York: Holiday House, 1987. (40 ps.) Becky, whose family has emigrated from Russia to avoid being persecuted as Jews, finds growing up in New York City in 1910 a vivid and exciting experience.
- Hays, Mary. The Jazz Man. NY: Atheneum, 1967. (42 ps.) (Harlem)
- Heller, Linda. The Castle on Hester Street. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
- Hesse, Karen. Letters From Rifka. (148 ps.) Based on the author's great aunt, this story tells of how the family of twelve-year-old Rifka journeys from a Jewish community in the Ukraine to Ellis Island. They must outwit a band of Russian soldiers to get into Poland, overcome typhus, before being separated. Rifka is denied passage to American because she caught ringworm. She stays in Belgium to recover before facing the sea challenges to get to America. (Ukraine)
- Hest, Amy. When Jessie Came Across the Sea. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997. (unpaged) A rabbi in an Eastern European shtetl gives Jessie a ticket to America. She arrives in New York, works as a dressmaker, saves money, and purchases a ticket for her grandmother.
- Hurvitz, Johanna. Faraway Summer. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1998. (155 pages) In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience. (Russia)
- Joose, Barbara. The Morning Chair. New York: Clarion Books, 1995. (32 pages) Bram and his parents move from Holland to New York City where he continues to snuggle in the morning chair with Mama. (Holland)
- Leighton, Maxine. An Ellis Island Christmas. New York: Viking, 1992. (31 pages) Tells of how the Polish family of Krysia Petrowski, decide what to pack, walk four days to arrive at a port, sail on a steamship for a difficult sea voyage that brings them to Ellis Island after fourteen days. (Poland)
- Lieurance, Suzanne. The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2008. (160 pages) After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant survives a terrible fire at the non-Unionized Triangle Shirtwaist Factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories. (Russia)
- Littlefield, Holly. Fire at the Triangle Factory. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1996. (48 pages) On March 25, 1911, two fourteen-year-old girls, sewing machine operators at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York, are caught in the famous Triangle fire that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers. (The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards.) [Summation: Defendants Max Blanck and Isaac Harris;Chronology; fire report; Asch building maps ;trial; newspaper accounts; March 26, 1911, p. 1; victims; trial excerpts; selected photos; building and safety laws] [Cornell University "Triangle Factory Fire" exhibit of testimonials, accounts, reenactment, songs]
- Littlesugar, Amy. Tree of Hope. New York: Philomel Books, 1999. (36 ps.) Florrie's daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Welles reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.
- Lourie, Peter. Hudson River: And Adventure From the Mountains to the Sea.
- Mohr, Nicholasa. The Magic Shell. New York: Scholastic, 1995. (90 pages) When his family moves from the Dominican Republic to New York City, Jaime uses his uncle's magical shell to call up happy memories. (Dominican Republic)
- Monroe, Judy. The Susan B. Anthony Women's Voting Rights Trial: A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002. (112 ps.) Examines the efforts to gain the right for women in the United States to vote, focusing on the trial of Susan B. Anthony for illegally voting in the presidential election in 1872.
- Moskin, Marietta. Waiting for Mama. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. (91 pages) A Russian immigrant family living in New York in the early 1900's prepares for the long-awaited arrival of their mother and baby sister. (Russia)
- Nixon, Joan Lowery. Land of Hope. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books, 1998. In 1902, Rebekah Levinsky and her family escapes the pogroms of Russia, arrives at Ellis Island, and faces the debarment of her grandfather due to a limp. (Russia)
- Norman, Lissette. My Feet Are Laughing. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. (unp) Sadie, an imaginative young Dominican American, relates her experiences growing up in her grandmother's brownstone house in Harlem.
- Osborne, Mary Pope. New York's Bravest. NY: Knopf, 2002. (unp.) [1840s NEW YORK] (Mose Humphreys]
- Mayerson, Evelyn. The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage: A Bubbemeiser. New York: Scribner, 1999. (66 pages) In 1910, nine-year-old Chanah and her family leave Poland for America. As they near Ellis Island in steerage, they fear their young cousin, Yaacov, who is deaf and cannot speak may be turned back. Chanah has smuggled a stray cat, Pitsel, aboard and he might be turned back as well. (Poland)
- Rael, Elsa. What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. (30 pages) The author remembers growing up in a tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Seven-year-old Zeesie attends her first "package party" with her parents where immigrants from the same village in Europe raise money to bring more immigrants to New York.
- Rael, Elsa. When Zaydeh Danced on Edlridge Street. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. (36 pages) While staying with her grandparents in New York City in the mid-1930s, eight-year-old Zeesie joins in the celebration of Simchat Torah and sees a different side of her stern grandfather.
- Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. NY: Crown Publishers, 1996. (32 ps) [Tar Beach activity *] A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
- Rylant, Cynthia. An Angel for Solomon Singer. NY: Orchard Books, 1992. (unpaged)
- San Souci, Daniel. North Country Night. NY: Doubleday, 1990. (32 ps.)
- San Souci, Robert. Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. (32 ps.)
- Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. NY: Simon & Schuster Books, 2004. (unp)
- Shepard, Aaron. The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale. NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995. [DUTCH NEW YORK] (A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St. Nicholas Day) (See: Forest, Heather)
- Weik, Mary Hays. The Jazz Man. New York: Macmillan, 1993. (42 ps.) Nine-year-old Zeke, who lives in Harlem, listens to the wonderful music coming from the jazz musician's piano across the court and escapes for a while from the harsh realities that worry him.
- Woodruff, Elvira. The Memory Coat. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. (unpaged) In the early 1900s, a Jewish family fearful of the Cossack raids leaves Russia. An old coat might prevent them from entering Ellis Island. (Russia)
- Yorinks, Arthur. Hey, Al. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. (32 ps. ) (Manhattan)
- North Carolina author: Gail Haley
- Birdseye, Tom. Look Out, Jack! The Giant Is Back!. NY: Holiday House, 2001. (unp) (Jack and the Beanstalk variant)
- Bland, Celia. The Conspiracy of the Secret Nine. NY: Silver Moon Press, 1995. (90 ps.)
- Compton, Joanne. Ashpet, an Appalachian Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1994. (36 ps.)
- Compton, Joanne. Jack, the Giant Chaser. NY: Holiday House, 1993. (32 ps.)
- Corneissen, Cornelia. Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. NY: Delacorte Press, 1998.
- Finney, Fred. The Mystery History of a Pirate Galleon. Brookfield, CT: Copper Beech Books, 1996.
- Hooks *, William. Moss Gown. NY: Clarion Books, 1987. (48 ps.)
- Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. NY: Knopf, 1993. (34 ps.)
- Houston, Gloria. But No Candy. NY: Philomel Books, 1992. (1939-1945)
- Houston, Gloria. Littlejim. NY: Philomel Books, 1990.
- Houston, Gloria. Littlejim's Dreams. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1997. [1920 N. Carolina]
- Houston, Gloria. Littlejim's Gift. NY: Philomel Books, 1994. ( 30 ps.)
- McCall, Edith. Pirates and Privateers. Chicago, Children's Press, 1963. (126 ps.) (Stede Bonnet was captured in Southport, NC)
- Miles, Calvin and Johnson, Dolores. Calvin's Christmas Wish. NY: Viking, 1993. (32 ps.)
- Pinkney, Gloria Jean. Coming Home.
- Pinkney, Gloria Jean. Back Home. NY: Dial Books, 1992. (illus Brian Pinkney * )
- Porter, Connie. Addy Learns A Lesson: A School Story . Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. (68 ps)
After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. - Ransome * , James. Uncle Jed's Barbershop. NY: Simon & Schuster Books, 1993. (32 ps.)
- Rylant, Cynthia. A Fine White Dust. NY: Bradbury Press, 1986. (106 ps.)
- Tate, Susan. Tammy Turtle; Sammy Shrimp; Crabby & Nabby; Pearlie Oyster are some picture books about animals making up a large part of the fishing industry in this area.
- Wahl, John Jan. Little Eight. NY: Lodestar Books, 1992. (unpaged)
- Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm. Wicked Jack. NY: Holiday House, 1995. [SOUTHERN STATES - GREAT DISMAL SWAMP of Virginia and North Carolina] (The actions of a mean old blacksmith leave him unwelcomed by Saint Peter and the Devil when he dies) (Jack tale adaptation)
- Kurtz, Jane. River Friendly, River Wild. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
- Local author: Fleming, Denise. Barnyard Banter. NY: Holt, 1994. (28 ps. )
- Local author: Fleming, Denise. In The Tall Tall Grass. NY: Holt, 1991. (unpaged )
- Local author: Fleming, Denise. In the Small Small Pond. NY: Holt, 1993. (32 ps.)
- Local author: Fleming, Denise. Where Once There Was a Wood. NY: Holt, 1996.
- Local author: Fleming, Denise. Count. NY: Holt, 1992. (26 ps.)
- Ohio born: Knowlton, Laurie Lazzaro. Why Cowboys Sleep With Their Boots On. Gretna: Pelican, 1995. (unpaged)
- Brill, Marlene. Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad . Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 1993. (47 ps)
Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad. (Lee) - Hamilton, Virginia. Bells of Christmas. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. (59 ps.)
- Hendershot, Judith. In Coal Country. NY: Knopf, 1987. (40 ps.)
- Jacob, Helen Pierce. The Diary of the Strawbridge Place . NY: Atheneum, 1978.
A family of Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad spirits slaves from Ashtabula, Ohio, across Lake Erie to freedom. - Mackall, Dandi Daley. Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story. Chelsea, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press, 2007. (unp.) n 1932, during the Depression in Ohio, thirteen-year-old Rudy, determined to help his family weather the hard times, hops a train going west to California and experiences the hobo life.
- Rylant, Cynthia. Tulip Sees America. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1998. (unpaged)
- Sanders *, Scott R. Warm as Wool. NY: Bradbury Press, 1992. (32 ps. )
- Antle, Nancy. Beautiful Land: A Story of the Oklahoma Land Rush. NY: Viking, 1994. (54 ps.)
- Antle, Nancy. Hard Times: A Story of the Great Depression. NY: Viking, 1993. (54 ps.)
- Beard, Darleen Bailey. The Flimflam Man. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998. (85 ps.)
- Cwiklik, Robert. Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1989. (129 ps.)
- Glassman, Bruce. Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation. NY: Blackbirch Press, 1992. (64 ps.)
- Myers, Anna. Red-dirt Jessie. NY: Walker, 1994. (107 ps.)
- Raven, Margot Theis. Angels in the Dust. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1997. (unpaged)
- Sanford, William. Quanah Parker: Comanche Warrior. Hillside, NJ: Enslow, 1994. (48 ps.)
- Thomas, Joyce Carol. I Have Heard of A Land. NY: HarperCollins, 1998.
- Turner, Ann. Dust for Dinner. NY: Harper Collins, 1995. (61 ps.) Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.
- Boulton, Jane. Only Opal: The Diary of A Young Girl. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.
- Fox, Mary Virginia. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians. Chicago: Children's Press, 1992. (111 ps.)
- Kudlinski, Kathleen. Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail. NY: Viking, 1994. (58 ps.)
- Lewis, Claudia. Long Ago in Oregon. NY: Harper & Row, 1987. (53 ps.)
- Moss, Marissa. Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998. (unpaged)
- Rylant, Cynthia. Tulip Sees America. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1998. (unpaged)
- Say, Allen. Music for Alice. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (32 ps.)
- Stanley, Diane. Roughing It On the Oregon Trail. NY: Harper Collins, 2000.
- Stein, R. Conrad. The Oregon Trail. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.
- Aylesworth *, Jim. The Folks in the Valley: A Pennsylvania Dutch ABC. NY: HarperCollins, 1992. (32 ps.)
- Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Growing Up in Coal Country. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. (127 pages) [Keating Owen Child Labor Act 1916]
- Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Silver at Night. New York: Crown, 1994. (30 pages) Wanting his own land, Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of Pennsylvania during the turn-of-the-century and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancee. (Italy)
- Bial, Raymond. Amish Home. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1993. (40 ps.)
- Costabel, Eva. The Pennsylvania Dutch: Craftsmen and Farmers. NY: Atheneum, 1986. (48 ps.)
- Fradin, Dennis. Pennsylvania: Sea to Shining Sea. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.
- Glass, Andrew. Bewildered For Three Days: As to Why Daniel Boone Never Wore His Coonskin Cap. [PENNSYLVANIA] (tall tale)
- Good, Merle. Nicole Visits An Amish Farm. NY: Walker, 1982. (47 ps.)
- Greene, Carol. Rachel Carson, Friend of Nature. (Rookie Biography) Chicago: Children's Press, 1992. (47 ps.)
- Gutelle, Andrew. Baseball's Best. (Story 4 - Roberto Clemente) NY: Random House, 1990. (48 ps.)
- Hendershot, Judith. In Coal Country. NY: Knopf, 1987. (40 ps.)
- Kellogg, Steven. Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale. NY: Morrow, 1988. (42 ps.)
- Knight, James. Seventh and Walnut: Life in Colonial Philadelphia. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1982. (32 ps.)
- McDonald, Megan. The Great Pumpkin Switch. NY: Orchard Books, 1992. (setting: Pittsburgh)
- McDonald, Megan. The Potato Man. NY: Orchard Books, 1991. (setting: Pittsburgh)
- Mitchell, Barbara. The Old Fasnacht. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1984. (64 ps.)
- Mitchell, Barbara. Tomahawks and Trombones. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1982. (55 ps.)
- Monjo, F.N. The Drinking Gourd. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. (62 ps.)
- Polacco, Patricia. Just Plain Fancy. NY: Bantam Books, 1990. (32 ps.)
- Porter, Connie. Addy Learns A Lesson: A School Story . Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. (68 ps)
After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. - Rappaport, Doreen. Trouble at the Mines. New York: Bantam, 1987. (96 pages) Rosie and her family are caught up in the Arnot, Pennsylvania, mining strike of 1899-100 led by the union organizer Mother Jones.
- Ringgold, Faith. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. NY: Crown, 1992. (unpaged)
- Simon, Charnan. Andrew Carnegie, Builder of Libraries. (Community Builders) NY: Children's Press, 1997. (46 ps.)
- Sinnott, Susan. Charley Waters Goes to Gettysburg. Millbrook, 2000. (48 ps.)
- Smucker, Anna Egan. No Star Nights. NY: Knopf, 1988. (40 ps.)
- Stein, R. Conrad. The Story of the Johnstown Flood. Chicago: Children's Press, 1984. (31 ps.)
- Tarbescu, Edith. Annushka's Voyage. NY: Clarion. (32 pages) Annushka's grandfather says good-bye to two sisters who journey across the Atlantic on a steamship, pass through Ellis Island, and, with the help of their grandmother's Sabbath candlesticks, join their father in America.
- Turner, Ann. When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. (unp)
- Voelzke, Daryl E. Pierre Penguin Finds a New Home. (setting: Pittsburgh)
- Walker, Paul R. Head for the Hills, the Amazing True Story of the Johnstown Flood.
- Avi. Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams. NY: Harper Trophy, 1997. (46 ps.)
- Avi. Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts . NY: Orchard Books, 1988. (120 ps)
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. - Fisher, Leonard Everett. To Bigotry, No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America. NY: Holiday House, 1998.
- Fradin, Dennis. The Rhode Island Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1989.
- Manes, Stephen. Some of the Adventures of Rhode Island Red. NY: Lippincott, 1990. (117 ps.)
- Simonds, Christopher. Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990. (64 ps.)
- Garcia, Mannie. Catching the Fire: Philip Simms, Blacksmith. Boston, Houghton Miffline. 1997. (48 ps.)
- Hershey, Kathleen. Cotton Mill Town. NY: Dutton Children's Books, 1993. (32 ps.)
- Hooks, William. Freedom's Fruit. NY: Knopf, 1996.
- Jaquith, Priscilla. Bo Rabbit Smart For True: Folktales From the Gullah. NY: Philomel Books, 1981. (55 ps.) [GULLAH - SOUTH CAROLINA]
- Lyons, Mary E. The Butter Tree: Tales of Bruh Rabbit. NY: Holt, 1995. (32 ps.) [SOUTH CAROLINA] (adventures of Bruh Bear, Bruh Rabbit, Bruh Wolf, Bruh Guinea Fowl)
- Mitchell, Barbara. Hush, Puppies. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1983. (47 ps.)
- Palmer, Kate Salley. A Gracious Plenty. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1991. (unpaged)
- Palmer, Kate Salley. How Many Feet in the Bed. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1991. (unpaged)
- San Souci, Robert D. Sukey and the Mermaid. NY: Four Winds Press, 1992. (32 ps.) [SEA ISLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM AFRICA] (mermaid)
- Illustrated by Brian Pinkney *
- Schroeder, Alan. Carolina Shout. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995. (unpaged)
- Somer, Mesa. Night of the Five Aunties. Morton Grove, Ill: A. Whitman, 1996. (Local author: Kate Salley Palmer)
- Harvey, Brett. My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted. NY: Holiday House, 1986. (40 ps.)
- Armstrong, Jennifer. Black-eyed Susan. NY: Crown Publishers, 1995. (120 ps.)
- Karr, Kathleen. The Cave. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
- Turner, Ann. Dakota Dugout. NY: Macmillan, 1985. (32 ps.)
- Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer. NY: Macmillan, 1989. (166 ps.)
- Local author: Allen, Thomas Burt. On Grandaddy's Farm. NY: Knopf, 1989. ( 40 ps.)
- Cohen, Caron Lee. (illus Ariane Dewey) Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1985. (40 ps.)
- Duncan, Alice Faye. Willie Jerome. NY: Macmillan, 1995.
- Farmer, Nancy. Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb. NY: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1998. (unp.) [UNITED STATES - TENNESSEE] (though sensing danger, the railroad fireman follows his engineer's command to increase the train's power and to ring the whistle)
- Flowers, A. R. Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1996. (32 ps.)
- Fradin, Dennis B. Tennessee in Words and Pictures. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1980. (48 ps.)
- Giovanni, Nikki. Knoxville, Tennessee. NY: Scholastic, 1994. (30 ps.)
- Goguen, Robert. The Almost True Story of Scrawny Chicken.
- Harvill, Kitty, (illus) [Donald Davis, author] Jack and the Animals. Little Rock: August House LittleFolk, 1995. (28 ps.)
- Hendershot, Judith. In Coal Country. NY: Knopf, 1987. (40 ps.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
- Houston, Gloria. The Year of the Perfect Christman Tree. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1988. (32 ps.)
- Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel. NY: Dutton Children's Books, 1994. (unpaged)
- Martin, Jean Ciramonte. Nashville, A Picture Book to Remember Her By.
- Martin, Jean Chiramonte. Tennessee and the Great Smokies. Crescent Books.
- McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
- Parton, Dolly. Coat of Many Colors. NY: HarperCollins, 1994. (unp.)
- Schroeder, Alan. Smoky Mountain Rose. (32 ps.) NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. (32 ps.)
- Schroeder, Alan. The Tale of Willie Monroe. NY: Clarion Books, 1999. [TENNESSEE] (Adaptation of Japanese folktale in which a powerful wrestler hoping to win the Emperor's Wrestling Match, meets three exceptionally strong women who train him for success)
- Van Leeuwen, Jean. Across the Wide Dark Sea. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995. ( unp.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
- Van Leeuwen, Jean. Going West. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992. (unp.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
- Van Shelton, Ricky, illustrator, Shan Williams. Quacker the Duck Series.
- Armstrong, Jennifer. Foolish Gretel. New York: Random House, 1997. (73 pages) In 1855 Galveston, Texas, ten-year-old Gretel and her two spoiled, complaining sisters all hope to be accepted as a companion to Frau Dimpel, the richest German lady in town. (Germany)
- Cherry , Lynne. The Armadillo from Amarillo. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1994. (34 ps.)
- Garland, Sherry. Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence. NY: Scholastic, 1998. (201 ps.)
- Garland, Sherry. Voices of the Alamo. NY: Scholastic, 1999. (48 ps.)
- Huling, Jan. Puss in Cowboy Boots. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. (unp.) [TEXAS] (A clever cat in Texas wins a fortune and a wealthy bride for his master) (Puss in Boots variant - France)
- Jakes, John. Susanna of the Alamo. San Diego: Gulliver Books, 1986. (28 ps.)
- Johnston, Tony. The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea. NY: Putnam's, 1992. (unpaged)
- Matthews, Cahndice. Gregorio Esparza : Alamo hero. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1996. (68 ps.)
- Medearis, Angela Shelf. Tailypo: A Newfangled Tall Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1996. (unp.) [TEXAS - SOUTHERN STATES] (a strange critter tries to steal the last meal of a young farmer boy's family in the Texas Hill country.)
- Rice, James. Texas Alphabet.
- Rice, James. Texas Jack at the Alamo. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub., 1989. (32 ps.)
- Rice, James. Texas Night Before Christmas.
- Root, Phyllis. Coyote and the Magic Words. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993. (29 ps.)
- Stevens, Janet. Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1993. (30 ps.)
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