Children/Young Adult
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
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Fourteen-year-old Mateo is desperate to escape Cuba and an abusive father scarred by the war with Spain. The Americanos are promising extravagant pay ...Read Review
Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys has written a fictionalized account of the single deadliest maritime tragedy in history, and the least known: the sinking of the ...Read Review
Wild Rover No More: A Bloody Jack Adventure
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This is the twelfth and allegedly last volume of the adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, also known as Bloody Jack, the Scourge of ...Read Review
Da Vinci’s Tiger
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When there are gems like this to be found, it’s no wonder adults get in the habit of raiding bookstores’ YA sections. ...Read Review
Love by the Morning Star
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This teen novel is not what you might expect from a story set in wartime Britain. With Hitler on move against the rest ...Read Review
Shadow of the Hawk
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Sooze and her family are strongly united during the hardest of times in 1930s Arkansas. Even with growing their own vegetables and some ...Read Review
Twenty-One Heroes
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This story of three young people – Katherine Mayhew, Joshua Spencer and Ezra Wright – is set at the dawn of the American Revolution, and ...Read Review
Into the Dim
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Hope Walton was homeschooled in her small town, and she’s developed some crippling phobias. When her mother dies in an explosion thousands ...Read Review
44 Hours or Strike!
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In 1931, during the Great Depression, fourteen-year-old Sophie Abramson and her sixteen-year-old sister, Rose, are garment workers who join the Toronto Dressmakers’ Strike, supported ...Read Review
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Janet Fox, a former high school English teacher, has written a middle-grade novel sure to have students arriving at school bleary-eyed after staying ...Read Review