Children/Young Adult
Angel of Greenwood
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Angel Hill and Isaiah Wilson have grown up in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the prosperous Black community known until summer 1921 as “...Read Review
Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas
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This graphic novel recounts the adventures of real-life 18th-century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, with cameo appearances by Jack Rackham. Anne’s ...Read Review
Root Magic
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Root Magic begins with eleven-year-old Jezebel Turner at her grandmother’s burial in 1963 in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, along with her twin, ...Read Review
Houdini and Me
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the same New York City house Harry Houdini once lived in, so our modern-day Harry is obsessed with ...Read Review
Beni’s War
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Beni’s moshav is located just three miles from the Syrian border. When a surprise attack occurs on Yom Kippur, his agricultural cooperative ...Read Review
Beautiful Wild
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The diaphanous cover undermines the depth and complexity of this Gilded Age Romance. The title refers not only to our heroine, but also ...Read Review
Tarō: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
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Feudal Japan, 1596. When his parents are attacked and killed by a rival lord, Tarō narrowly escapes with his life. He’s found by ...Read Review
View from Pagoda Hill
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Shanghai, 1870. When the matchmaker declares 12-year-old Ning unmarriageable (she’s too tall, has “unnatural” green eyes and unbound feet), Ning’s mother writes ...Read Review
Teddy
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In their appealing young adult graphic novel, Luckinbill and Tait present the facts of President Theodore Roosevelt’s life in compact form, while ...Read Review
A Place to Hang the Moon
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Orphans William, Edmund, and Anna have recently lost their only living relative, their grandmother. Because it’s 1940 and the Germans are bombing London ...Read Review