Candlewick
The Storm in the Barn
This graphic novel, aimed at ages 10 and up, uses a dash of fantasy to make the 1930s come…
Sahwira
In a Methodist mission in Rhodesia in 1964, two 12-year-old boys call themselves Sahwira, meaning best friends who are closer…
Lincoln and His Boys
In Lincoln and His Boys, Rosemary Wells traces Lincoln’s journey to the presidency and through the Civil War years through…
Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice
This engaging novel focuses on the lives of three members of the figli di coro at the Ospedale della Pietà…
Secrets of Greymoor
Secrets of Greymoor is Clara Gillow Clark’s third book about inquisitive Hattie Belle Basket. In this book 11-year-old tomboy Hattie…
Roman Diary
The subtitle of this illustrated children’s book is “The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Who Was Captured and Sold as…
Bloodline
Set in Britain circa 650 AD, Katy Moran’s debut novel is a coming-of-age story featuring a boy named Essa who…
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol II, The Kingdom of the Waves
Editors' choice
African-American youth Octavian escapes with his trusted tutor Doctor Trefusis from the eccentric Bostonian gentlemen who raised him as a…
The Revolution of Sabine
Sabine Durand, an aristocratic sixteen-year-old living in 18th-century Paris, is growing weary of her mother’s fixation on society and entertaining.…
The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher
This gorgeously designed book is a journal-within-a-journal, the story of a modern-day photographer who finds the papers and photographs of…
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