Houghton Mifflin
Annexed
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Amsterdam is under Nazi occupation. For most teenagers, the idea of being stuck in a few small rooms with your family for months ...Read Review
Wildthorn
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Insane asylums of the 19th century were a bad place to be locked up, particularly for those unfortunate women who were sane when ...Read Review
Sources of Light
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It takes courage to face injustice in life. It takes no less courage to write about the many ways people hurt each other ...Read Review
The Education of Bet
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Sixteen-year-old Bet yearns to go away to school like her friend Will, but in 19th-century England girls are barred from traditional education. Will ...Read Review
Crows & Cards
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Twelve-year-old Zebulon Crabtree doesn’t want to be steaming down the Mississippi on a riverboat in 1849. His father is sending him to be ...Read Review
The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Dene Low, the pen name for author Laura Card, has created a wonderful tale of Victorian fantasy in this first novel. The Entomological ...Read Review
T4: A Novel
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The title refers to the Nazi plan, hatched at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin, to eliminate the disabled in the name of racial purity. While ...Read Review
Indignation
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Up until the last thirty pages, this book reads like a wonderfully funny and bittersweet coming of age novel, though there are hints ...Read Review
Fanon
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Franz Fanon, who died in 1961, is most famous for his book, The Wretched of the Earth, which excoriated racism and colonialism. A psychiatrist ...Read Review
I Want to Live
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This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s ...Read Review
