20th Century
The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico’s bittersweet story of loneliness and redemption, spans a decade, from 1930 to May 1940, when…
The Tale of Hawthorn House
This fourth volume in Albert’s series featuring children’s author Beatrix Potter and her friends, both human and animal, takes place…
The Winter War
Solid young adult author (most reviews give the age ranges for his books as upper elementary through middle school) William…
The Hope Chest
Editors' choice
Violet is eleven years old, but she has run away in order to find her older sister, Chloe. Chloe has…
Fire from the Rock
Most young people look forward to the growing-up milestone of starting high school. But African American Sylvia Patterson lives in…
Dawn of Fear
Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the…
Eclipse
The problems of a Hungarian immigrant family in Cincinnati in 1952 as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy.…
The Curse of the Romanovs
In 1916, Alexei, twelve-year-old tsarevich of Russia, records family history in his diary. Russia is in turmoil, and the people…
The Penalty
A young soccer star from the poorest community of Puerto Rico goes mysteriously missing after performing uncharacteristically badly in an…
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
How many of us remember learning about the Scopes Trail in our social studies class? It was one of the…
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