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HMH Books for Young Readers

We Are Not Free

By Traci Chee - Published 2020

Genres:

For two months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans lived in uncertain and hostile times. This culminated in the February 1942 issuing of Executive Order 9066 ...Read Review

Retribution Rails

By Erin Bowman - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Western

Teenager Reece Murphy is compelled to join a ruthless outlaw gang, the Rose Riders, during a robbery, when the outlaws discover a mysterious ...Read Review

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

By Margarita Engle - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Literary

Fourteen-year-old Mateo is desperate to escape Cuba and an abusive father scarred by the war with Spain. The Americanos are promising extravagant pay ...Read Review

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Over the last 20 years The Historical Novels Review (the society's print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books.

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HMH Books for Young Readers

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Retribution Rails

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

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