Children/YA
Gold Mountain
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In Yee’s stunning debut novel, teenager Tam Ling Fan watches one night in the late 1860s as her father, the local magistrate ...Read Review
The Ship of Cloud and Stars
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This is a bright, visually attractive novel which blends information, adventure and fantasy, ably illustrated by George Ermos. Nico Cloud, undervalued at home ...Read Review
The Mermaid in the Millpond
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‘Sometimes the only way to save yourself is to save someone else’ is the theme that flows through this mystical story set during ...Read Review
Billie Swift Takes Flight
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The year is 1941. In a field near her home, twelve-year-old Billie Swift witnesses the crash of a Spitfire fighter plane. Billie has a ...Read Review
When Winter Robeson Came
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Los Angeles, 1965. Eden Coal is a young teenage African American girl who loves to play the piano and create her own compositions. She ...Read Review
Ripped Away
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Children/YAMystery/CrimeTime-slip
When the fortune teller asks Abe what he’d change about his life, he responds, “I guess I’d be a different person…...Read Review
A Persian Passover
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This delightful picture book, set in Iran of the 1950s, follows siblings Ezra and Roza as they help to prepare for their family’...Read Review
The Week at World’s End
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This middle-grade novel is set in October 1962, when the world was on tenterhooks, waiting to know whether it would continue to exist due ...Read Review
Loyalty
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One spring day in 1774, thirteen-year-old Noah Cope watches members of the Sons of Liberty drag his father from their Massachusetts home and tar ...Read Review
The Oracle of Avaris (Secrets of the Sands, 3)
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Lower Egypt, 3500 BCE. In this third book in the Secrets of the Sands trilogy, the story continues nonstop from the previous volume. As ...Read Review