The ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman - In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town

The door in the wall by Marguerite de Angeli - A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King

Bandit's moon by Sid Fleischman - Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquín Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s

Inside out & back again by Thanhha Lai - Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama

Echo : a novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny

All-of-a-kind family by Sydney Taylor - Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City