Groundwood Books

Eyes on the Ice

By Anna Rosner - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1963 Soviet-controlled Prague, three brothers play hockey on a frozen pond with makeshift equipment while their father cheers them on, until they are ...Read Review

Focus. Click. Wind.

By Amanda West Lewis - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Focus. Click. Wind. by Amanda West Lewis leans into the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the late 1960s, but these details ...Read Review

The Prisoner and the Writer

By Heather Camlot - By Sophie Casson (illus.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason by the French government in 1894, was imprisoned on Devil’s Island, off the South American coast. ...Read Review

These Are Not the Words

By Amanda West Lewis - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Twelve-year-old Miranda Billie Taylor, known as Missy, lives in Manhattan’s East Village in 1963 with her photojournalist and jazz-drumming father and aspiring artist ...Read Review

A Boy Is Not a Ghost

By Edeet Ravel - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

On the Russian front in 1941, a twelve-year-old boy dreams of having adventures with his best friend. Natt Silver and his mother are crammed ...Read Review

I Was Cleopatra

By Dennis Abrams - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Abrams, author of numerous biographies and nonfiction books for young readers, has created a detailed guide to Shakespeare’s world and theater in ...Read Review