Children/Young Adult

Broken Song

By Kathryn Lasky - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In The Night Journey, a National Jewish Book Award winner, Lasky told the story of how Reuven Bloom helped Sashie, his future wife, ...Read Review

I, Dred Scott

By Sheila P. Moses - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

An easy-read young people’s version of the mid-nineteenth century Dred Scott case—in which the Supreme Court shamed itself by declaring that ...Read Review

Brooklyn Rose

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It is December 16, 1899, when Rose Frampton pens the opening entry in her birthday present, a gilt-edged journal. As she reflects upon describing her ...Read Review

The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West was Tamed

By John Frank - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

  This is such a fun picture book illus. by Zachary Pullen. It’s a tall tale with lively and humorous text and ...Read Review

New Found Land : Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery

By Allan Wolf - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This fictional account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is told in multiple voices in a straightforward and entertaining lyrical form. Fourteen characters ...Read Review

Grape Thief

By Kristine L. Franklin - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It is 1925 in the small town of Roslyn, Washington, and the Grape Train has come to town for its annual visit. We meet ...Read Review

Girl in a Cage

By Jane Yolen - By Robert J. Harris - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Set in the early 14th century, Girl in a Cage gives readers a glimpse of Scotland’s struggle for independence from England and ...Read Review

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This young adult novel joins the many others in the Dear America series of fictional diaries set at pivotal points in US history. ...Read Review

Prince Across the Water

By Jane Yolen - By Robert J. Harris - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

In August 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland to regain the British throne for his father. Parliament had ousted his grandfather, James II, ...Read Review

Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker

By Deborah Hopkinson - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Written in diary form, this young adult novel has the immediacy of first person, present tense. Its day-to-day focus doesn’t anticipate events ...Read Review