Balzer & Bray

Lion of the Sky

By Ritu Hemnani - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Coached by his kind grandfather in the art of kite flying, shy Raj, 12, is desperate to prove himself, since he keeps failing at ...Read Review

The Blood Years

By Elana K. Arnold - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Arnold powerfully honors her grandmother’s experiences in this coming-of-age novel set in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), during World War II. Although 13...Read Review

Rust in the Root

By Justina Ireland - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Ireland’s website tagline does an excellent job of introducing her fiction: “Let’s change the system via the lens of compelling fiction.” ...Read Review

Ophie’s Ghosts

By Justina Ireland - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

In Georgia in 1922, twelve-year-old Ophie is suddenly awakened by her father, who tells her to get her mother and hide. Although questioning, she ...Read Review

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

By Laura Ruby - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

This luminous, moving novel by an award-winning YA novelist is a genre-defying achievement. Part ghost story, part feminist history, part love letter to ...Read Review

The Girl in the Torch

By Robert Sharenow - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Girl in the Torch tells the story of Sarah, a twelve-year-old girl who, along with her mother, has escaped the pogroms of ...Read Review

Never Fall Down

By Patricia McCormick - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge march into the Cambodian town of Battambang and eleven-year-old Arn Chorn-Pond’s happy life is changed forever. The ...Read Review