Children/Young Adult
Gingersnap
In the mid-1940s, Jayna lives in small town America with her 18-year-old brother Rob, a navy cook. The two talk…
The Quietness
Queenie is desperate to escape the harsh reality of daily survival in her poverty-stricken home. Love exists there but is…
Red River Stallion
Amelia Otterchild Mackenzie is a fourteen-year-old living on Canada’s Hudson Bay in the early 19th century. Abandoned first by her…
One Came Home
In 1871, thirteen-year-old Georgie Burkhardt refuses to believe that the body that was found in Dog Hollow, Wisconsin, is that…
Never Fall Down
Editors' choice
In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge march into the Cambodian town of Battambang and eleven-year-old Arn Chorn-Pond’s happy life is…
Dark Tales from the Woods
This collection of tales comes from the early 18th-century travelling gypsy storyteller, Abram Wood, stories which have passed down the…
Paperboy
The hero in this delightful book stutters. He calls his best friend “Rat” because he can’t pronounce “Art” properly. When…
Child of the Mountains
Marilyn Shank’s debut novel, Child of the Mountains, tells the story of Lydia Hawkins, an eleven-year-old girl growing up in…
Sun Catcher
The Bronze Age: a world of warring tribes, where each clan is protective of its own. Thirteen-year-old Maia is an…
Mission Libertad
Young teen Luisito Ramirez and his parents flee Cuba in 1979, on a rickety raft with a failing motor. They…
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