Children/Young Adult
The Hidden Room
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The Hidden Room follows a Ukrainian family hiding from the Nazis during the last year of World War II. Jacob, his parents, sister ...Read Review
The Prisoner and the Writer
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason by the French government in 1894, was imprisoned on Devil’s Island, off the South American coast. ...Read Review
John Agard’s Windrush Child
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The arrival in Britain of people from the Caribbean on the ship the Empire Windrush has been the subject of several recent picture ...Read Review
Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon
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By November 1941, 17-year-old Frances Finkel has logged more than 2500 hours flying airplanes and has become an expert aircraft mechanic. Her father owns a ...Read Review
The Prince of Steel Pier
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Thirteen-year-old Joseph “Joey” Goodman lives with his parents, grandparents, three brothers, and an uncle. August 1975 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, should be busy ...Read Review
The Clockwork Queen
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18th-century St Petersburg, Russia. The autocratic Empress, Catherine the Great, has summoned the grandmaster of chess, Mr. Peshka, to teach her unstable son ...Read Review
The Accidental Stowaway
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Liverpool, 1910. The awkward 12-year-old Patch has spent her childhood being handed from one reluctant relation to another—she knows she doesn’t fit ...Read Review
My Own Lightning
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Closure is an ever-moving target in Lauren Wolk’s sequel to Wolf Hollow. After a tragic death, eleven-year-old Annabelle struggles to fit into ...Read Review
Violet Yorke, Gilded Girl: Ghosts in the Closet
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Violet Yorke is returning to her grandmother’s care after surviving the shipwreck of 1912. Since no one in the hospital believes she’s ...Read Review
We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me
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The arrival in Britain of people from the Caribbean on the ship the Empire Windrush has been the subject of several recent picture ...Read Review