Dial Books

The Night War

By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1942, 12-year-old Miriam lives with her parents in Paris after fleeing Germany following Kristallnacht. During a roundup of all Jews in the Pletzl, ...Read Review

The Davenports

By Krystal Marquis - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Marquis dazzles in this debut of glitz, glamour, and Jim Crow. In Chicago in 1910, 19-year-old Olivia Davenport is expected to find a husband, ...Read Review

A Seed in the Sun

By Aida Salazar - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Sometime in 1964, while working in the California fields, twelve-year-old Lula lost her voice. Now it is just a whispery, scraggly thing that won’...Read Review

Island of Spies

By Sheila Turnage - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Twelve-year-old Sarah Stickley “Stick” Lawson lives her with mom, dad, and older sister on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. Stick, her ten-year-old friend, Rain, ...Read Review

Nathan’s Song

By Leda Schubert - By Maya Ish-Shalom (illus.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Nathan’s Song was inspired by the author’s grandfather, born in a Jewish shtetl in Russia in the late 1800s. Always singing ...Read Review

Peacemaker

By Joseph Bruchac - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Peacemaker is set in North America at some point prior to the arrival of European colonists, possibly in the early 1500s. Okwaho is ...Read Review

Two Roads

By Joseph Bruchac - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

After losing his farm and his mother to the hard times of the 1930s Depression, twelve-year-old Cal Black and his beloved Pop Will ...Read Review

American Ace

By Marilyn Nelson - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Connor has a comfortable place in his Italian-American family. He works at the family restaurant and spends weekends practicing K-turns with his ...Read Review