Atheneum
A Whale in Paris
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It’s 1944, and Chantal Duprey lives in German-occupied Paris along the Seine. Her father, a fishmonger named Henri, has not had any luck ...Read Review
Ashes: Seeds of America
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This story, third in the Seeds of America series, picks up in June 1781 with escaped slaves Isabel and Curzon in South Carolina. It ...Read Review
Four-four-two
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The title of Dean Hughes’s latest YA novel about World War II refers to the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fighting the ...Read Review
The Year We Sailed the Sun
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In The Year We Sailed the Sun, Theresa Nelson tells the story of Julia Delaney, an orphaned girl who has spent her earliest ...Read Review
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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This inspiring memoir is a perfect way to introduce young children to Holocaust literature. Leon Leyson was born Leib Lejzon in a rural ...Read Review
The Lost Crown
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Sarah Miller’s well-researched novel The Lost Crown gives beautiful, honest voices to the teen daughters of Tsar Nicholas II in the years ...Read Review
The Crossing
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This is a wonderful selection to add to a collection of American history picture books. Donna Jo Napoli’s writing, whether it be ...Read Review
A Tangle of Magicks
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Bath, 1803. Twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson has inherited a talent for magic from her mother. It’s dangerous stuff and, several times, Kat’s ...Read Review
Forge
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(1) 1777. America is fighting for independence from Britain. Curzon, a slave, has managed to escape from his British master and is on the run. ...Read Review
Kat, Incorrigible
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
In 1803 England, mischievous twelve-year-old Kat must deal with her stern stepmother and disapproving elder sisters who constantly criticize her inquisitiveness and recklessness. Threatened ...Read Review