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Summary: 80 Events.

1300s

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1889

• The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
• The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
• The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer

1918 Flu Epidemic

• Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan

1937 Recession

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

1941-12-07 [1941]

• The Fences Between Us (Dear America) by Kirby Larson

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

9/11

• 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy

American Civil War

• All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Phillips Denslow
• How I Found the Strong by Margaret Mcmullan
• Iron Thunder (I Witness) by Avi
• Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi (1865)
• Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries Of The H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (1865)

American Revolution

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1783)
• The Battlefield Ghost by Margery Cuyler (1783)

Apollo 11

• Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino (1969-07-24)

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino (1969-07-20)

Apollo program

• Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino (1975)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Chasing Lincoln's Killer - Audio by James L. Swanson (1865-04)

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Okinawa

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

The Blitz

• Elephant Run by Roland Smith
• Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

Boston Tea Party

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1773-12-16)

Bread and Roses Strike

• Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson (1912)

Brown v. Board of Education

• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patitllo Beals (1954)

California Gold Rush

• Letters from the Corrugated Castle: A Novel of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852 by Joan W. Blos (1849)

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Countdown by Deborah Wiles
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-garcia

Crimean War

• The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer (1856)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Countdown by Deborah Wiles

Cucumber Festival

• A Recipe for Robbery by Marybeth Kelsey

Death of Queen Victoria of England

• Montmorency's Revenge (Montmorency) by Eleanor Updale (1901)

DomDaniel is Defeated

• Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk (Spanish edition): Septimus Heap, Libro Uno: Magyk (Septimus Heap) by Angie Sage

Endurance Expedition

• Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong (1917)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

Fate of the Labryinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

French Revolution

• The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (1789)

Gilded Age

• All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown

Grace Brown's Murder

• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (1906)

Great Depression

• On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells

Great Fire of Chicago

• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (1871)

Great San Francisco Earthquake

• The Strange Case of Baby H (American Girl History Mysteries) by Kathryn Reiss (1906)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

Halifax Explosion

• Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M Walker

Halloween

• Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen

Holocaust

• Hana's Suitcase: A True Story (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Karen Levine
• Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
• The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Once by Morris Gleitzman

Influenza pandemic

• If I die before I wake : the flu epidemic diary of Fiona Macgregor by Jean Little (1918)

The Inquisition

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

Irish Potato Famine

• Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (1852)

Johnstown Flood

• Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards

Little Rock School Integration

• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patitllo Beals (1958)

Manhattan Project

• The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

Middle Ages

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Napoleonic Wars

• Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (Bloody Jack Adventures) by L. A. Meyer

Nazi occupation of Denmark

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

New Year's Eve

• Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes by Peggy Gifford

New York World's Fair

• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (1965)

Orphan Train

• A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures) by Joan Lowery Nixon

Panama-Pacific International Exposition

• Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters by Jeannine Atkins (1915)

Pearl Harbor

• Don't Talk to me about the War by David A. Adler

Percy discovers his brother Tyson and interprets the Oracle for Clarisse.

• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

Prohibition in the United States

• Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal

Rebellion against the Capitol

• Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins

Rebirth of Kronos

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan (or is it his death?)

Revolutionary War

• Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

September 11 Attacks

• Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (Picture Puffin Books) by Maira Kalman (2001-09-11)

Sinkhole

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Sinking of the Titanic

• No Moon by Irene N. Watts
• All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown (1912-04-15)

Summer Solstice

• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

Thalia reappears

• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Lost by Jacqueline Davies (1911)

Trinity

• The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

Tunguska event

• Goliath (Leviathan) by Scott Westerfeld

Underground Railroad

• Elijah Of Buxton (Newbery Honor Book) (Newbery Honor Book) by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) by Carole Boston Weatherford

Vietnam War

• Letters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The war between the Titans and the gods

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

Wednesday Afternoons

• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

When Poseidon traps Typhon

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

When Typhon strikes

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

World War 2

• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher

World War I

• Behemoth (Leviathan) by Scott Westerfeld
• The Doll Shop Downstairs by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Goliath (Leviathan) by Scott Westerfeld
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
• War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (1918)
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook by Beverly Patt
• Don't Talk to me about the War by David A. Adler
• The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
• Elephant Run by Roland Smith
• Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
• The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• On The Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
• Once by Morris Gleitzman
• Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• London Calling by Edward Bloor (1945)

World War II

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

Yellow Fever Epidemic

• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (1793)