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The Girls of Gettysburg

By Bobbi Miller - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

With both her older brothers dead while serving in the Confederate Army, and nothing to keep her home, thirteen-year-old Annie Gordon sells herself ...Read Review

Mending Horses

By M. P. Barker - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Mending Horses, the sequel to M. P. Barker’s 2008 release A Difficult Boy, reunites readers with Daniel Linnehan, an Irish teenager transplanted across ...Read Review

Whistle in the Dark

By Susan Hill Long - Published 2013

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Set in the mining town of Leadanna, Missouri in the 1920s, Whistle in the Dark follows the coming of age of Clemson, who, ...Read Review

Canary in the Coal Mine

By Madelyn Rosenberg - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Working in a Virginia coal mine is a tough job at any time. But when it’s the Depression era and you’re ...Read Review

My Beautiful Hippie

By Janet Nichols Lynch - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Joanne is a sixteen-year-old girl living in San Francisco during the 1967 “Summer of Love.” Amid preparations for her sister’s wedding, worries about ...Read Review

The Incredible Charlotte Sycamore

By Kate Maddison - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

In this fun, quirky Victorian steampunk novel, Charlotte Sycamore’s father is the private physician to Queen Victoria – which means Charlotte is expected ...Read Review

Big River’s Daughter

By Bobbi Miller - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

River Fillian is the daughter of the unofficial Pirate King of the Mississippi River in 1811. River and her father are river rats and ...Read Review

Out in Left Field

By Don Lemna - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Poor Donald. After catching a pop-fly with his forehead in the annual summer game against Melody School, he’s lost more than the ...Read Review

The Shadow Collector’s Apprentice

By Amy Gordon - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

This middle-grade novel is set in early 1960s small town America. Twelve-year-old Cully Pennyacre lives with his Aunt Incandescence, who studies moths, and ...Read Review

Ghosts of the Titanic

By Julie Lawson - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Kevin Messenger is a disappointment. He knows this because his father reminds him of it every day. Kevin is not interested in soccer ...Read Review