Viking Books for Young Readers

Rosa by Any Other Name

By Hailey Alcaraz - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In Phoenix, Arizona in 1955, Rosa Capistrano is the only Mexican American student at the city’s top high school. There, she’s known ...Read Review

The Grove

By Brooks Whitney Phillips - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

For 15-year-old Pip and her 17-year-old sister, Sissy, the Florida orange grove where their family lives in 1960 is a place of isolation, boredom, ...Read Review

The Enemy’s Daughter

By Anne Blankman - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Marta is traveling with her father on the Lusitania from New York back home to Germany during WWI. Out of fear of retribution, ...Read Review

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