Children/Young Adult
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 Winter War
Solid young adult author (most reviews give the age ranges for his books as upper elementary through middle school) William…
Hoofbeats: Silence and Lily, 1773
Silence is a typical twelve-year-old colonial girl. Her main concerns are learning tea manners with her friends, her too-numerous chores,…
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…
Song for Eloise
Eloise’s life in 12th-century France is happy until at fifteen she is married to a man twice her age. Her…
Dawn of Fear
Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the…
Smugglers
(1) England, South Coast, post 1815. Twelve-year-old Reuben Hibberd knows that a shipwreck means good pickings. But there is one…
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…
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