Children/Young Adult

Ventura and Winnetka

By J. G. Bryan - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Ventura and Winnetka are locations in Southern California, where this rollicking coming-of-age novel is set in 1978. J.G. Bryan does a great job ...Read Review

Come See the Fair

By Gavriel Savit - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1893: Twelve-year-old Eva Root passes herself off as a medium under the watchful eye of Mrs. Blodgett, telling grieving relatives what she believes they ...Read Review

Epic Historic Adventures: Fearless Frederic

By Felice Arena - Published 2022

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Set in Paris during the flood of 1910, this is the story of how thirteen-year-old Frederic Lefosse and his friends, Thierry and Claire, not ...Read Review

Once Upon a Hillside

By Angela McAllister - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

A hill.  A distinctive hill: a Down, with flower-spangled turf over white chalk, a stand of woods and a mound at its summit. ...Read Review

Alma: The Wind Rises

By François Place (illus.) - By Holly James (trans.) - By Timothee de Fombelle - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

It’s 1786 when this story begins in a remote valley in West Africa where Alma and her family are living a seemingly idyllic ...Read Review

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, 1)

By Robin Stevens - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

This is the first in a new series starring May Wong as the protagonist. Regular readers of Stevens will recognise May as the ...Read Review

Buffalo Flats

By Martine Leavitt - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

When seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt believes she is sitting next to God on a rocky parcel of land, she is determined to buy this ...Read Review

The Honey Jar: An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom

By Joan Schoettler - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When Turkish soldiers move into the city of Kars in 1920, they harass and threaten the Armenian residents, forcing an exodus. As Mama is ...Read Review

Little Sure Shot

By Matt Ralphs - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern

This is a fictional account of the extraordinary early life of Annie Oakley, told in the first person: the story of a little ...Read Review

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

By Allison Hong Merrill - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1892, when six-year-old Tai Choi gets on a boat, she believes she is leaving home to visit her grandmother. She does not realize ...Read Review

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