Children/Young Adult
The Bomber Dog
Dover 1944: World War 2 is at its height. One night, after a bombing raid, a young Alsatian dog rescues…
The Clockwork Scarab
In an alternative 1889 London, where airships and steam-powered machines, vehicles, and devices are common, Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock,…
The Burning Shadow
Bronze Age Greece. In this, the second Gods and Warriors book, Hylas, the Outsider; Pirra daughter of the High Priestess…
How to Catch a Bogle
In Victorian London, children who aren’t born into “respectable” families – that is, wealthy ones – are pretty much on…
The Caged Graves
Set in Catawissa, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1867, The Caged Graves opens as 17-year-old Verity Boone returns to her birthplace…
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing
Although nonfiction and written for children, this book can easily be appreciated by adult readers. Written in the style of…
Ghost Hawk
Editors' choice
1600s, Massachusetts. Winter is coming. Eleven-year-old Little Hawk must undergo a three-month test of survival alone in the forest with…
The Mysterious Misadventures of Clemency Wrigglesworth
Late 19th century. Miss Clemency Wrigglesworth, age eleven and newly orphaned, boards the P & O steamer in Bombay bound…
The Seeing
Set in the 1950s, this story is narrated mainly by 13-year-old Lizzie, who lives in a small coastal town, in…
Little Red Lies
Rachel’s beloved brother is coming home from World War II, and she’s thrilled. But the young man who returns is…
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