Children/Young Adult
India Dark
Melbourne, Australia, 1909. Thirteen-year-old Poesy Swift’s father has died and the family is on the breadline. She has two options:…
The Messenger Bird
his is a race-against-time mystery story in which three children have only a few days to solve a series of…
A Soldier’s Secret
Private Frank Thompson of the 2nd Michigan Volunteers is not your typical Civil War infantryman. He is also a battlefield nurse and…
Will Sparrow’s Road
Twelve-year-old Will Sparrow is a boy of the streets. After being abandoned by his mother, abused by his father, and…
The Dark Unwinding
Editors' choice
Ever since her father died at sea, Katherine Tulman has known her place in the world. She acts as account-keeper…
The Diviners
Editors' choice
Seventeen-year-old Evie has been sent away from Ohio to live in New York City with her eccentric uncle – and…
Eleven Eleven
November 11th, 1918, the last day of World War I. It is still night, and three young soldiers are on…
A Little Princess
London, 1905. Sara Crewe, heiress to a diamond mine, leaves India and her beloved Papa to go to Miss Minchin’s…
The Orphan King
Orphaned at 10 and raised by monks, Thomas is 18 when he realizes the time has come for him to…
Yesterday’s Dead
Between 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people. The flu first rose near Boston, and as…
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