Children/Young Adult
Ruby in the Ruins
Set in 1945, this book reveals the devastation the Blitz has had on Ruby and her neighbours as the city…
Code Word Courage
Billie is a sensitive fifth-grade girl trying to cope with several challenges. She’s the object of teasing from what she…
The Family with Two Front Doors
The reader is ushered into a home with the smells of baked bread and tasty home cooking. The Rabinovitch family…
Lady Mary
1527. Eleven-year-old Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, are at the Palace…
G.I. Dogs: Judy, Prisoner of War
Judy, an English pointer, was born in 1936 in Shanghai. She was adopted by sailors of the British Royal Navy…
Molly on the March
Dublin, 1912. Mollie Carberry, age fourteen, is a secret suffragette and longs to do something serious for the cause. The…
Who Are You, Trudy Herman?
Trudy Herman’s parents had emigrated as children to the U.S. from Germany in 1909. In 1943, Trudy is a typical…
I Survived: The Children’s Blizzard, 1888
Chicago-born 11-year-old John Hale’s family has moved to the Dakota prairie, and he contends with the challenges of farming in…
Olivia Twist
Olivia Brownlow has been an upper-class Victorian young lady for a few years. Before that she lived with the orphans,…
The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
Described as “Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe,” this supernatural adventure for middle-grade readers is not quite…
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