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Eyes Open

By Lyn Miller-Lachmann - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Eyes Open tells the story of 1966-67 Portugal, an era and place that most history books skip. In this land, the Leader’s ...Read Review

Gallows Hill

By Lois Ruby - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Thomas Stillbrooke and Patience Woodstock, the two narrators and main characters of this novel, delineate the horrors of the colonial-era Salem witch trials ...Read Review

Torch

By Lyn Miller-Lachmann - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1969, the year after the Prague Spring was crushed in August by Soviet tanks rolling over the “socialism with a human face” into Czechoslovakia, ...Read Review

Gold Mountain

By Betty G. Yee - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

In Yee’s stunning debut novel, teenager Tam Ling Fan watches one night in the late 1860s as her father, the local magistrate ...Read Review

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

By G. D. Falksen - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Living with her single father in a working-class neighborhood of London in 1967, 16-year-old Kitty doesn’t know she’s autistic. Unable to fit ...Read Review

Open Fire

By Amber Lough - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sometimes all it takes is one woman. 1917. After word of her brother’s desertion reaches Katya’s ear, she joins Maria Bochkareva’s ...Read Review