Viking Books for Young Readers

The Bletchley Riddle

By Ruta Sepetys - By Steve Sheinkin - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Bletchley Riddle is a fast-paced and solid middle-grade novel. Based on real events leading up to England’s experience in World War ...Read Review

These Olive Trees

By Aya Ghanameh - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In this vibrantly illustrated tale, first-time author-illustrator Ghanameh has crafted a poignant story that will enthrall the emerging reader. Aimed at ages 4-7, ...Read Review

Singing with Elephants

By Margarita Engle - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This middle-grade novel set in post-World War II California tells the story of Cuban-born immigrant Oriol. She is struggling to fit into her ...Read Review

The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams

By Mindy Thompson - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

In 1944 in the fictional town of Sutton, New York, thirteen-year-old Poppy Fulbright helps her parents run their bookshop, Rhyme and Reason. But Rhyme ...Read Review

The Diamond Keeper

By Jeannie Mobley - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1792, nineteen-year-old Claudie Durand, an innkeeper’s daughter in a small village in Brittany, expects never to marry because all the men are ...Read Review

The Unadoptables

By Hana Tooke - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In Amsterdam in 1880, five orphaned infants are left on the doorstep of the Little Tulip Orphanage. The orphanage’s matron finds the circumstances ...Read Review

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come

By Mildred D. Taylor - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the sixth, and final, book in the Logan Family series (Song of the Trees, 1975; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976; Let ...Read Review

The Jewel Thief

By Jeannie Mobley - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

For those who love romance novels mixed with a little mystery, The Jewel Thief is an enticing, well researched novel based on the ...Read Review

Devil Darling Spy

By Matt Killeen - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Killeen’s Orphan Monster series addresses contemporary issues of war, trauma, political resistance, racism, and sexism through the pulse-pounding espionage adventures of Sarah ...Read Review

Lovely War

By Julie Berry - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In Lovely War’s opening, Hephaestus traps Aphrodite and Ares in a golden net and puts them on trial for infidelity—a Homeric ...Read Review