Wendy Lamb

Chasing Secrets

By Gennifer Choldenko - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Kennedy has no greater concerns than navigating friendships at school and dreaming about following in her physician father’s footsteps, but ...Read Review

Gingersnap

By Patricia Reilly Giff - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In the mid-1940s, Jayna lives in small town America with her 18-year-old brother Rob, a navy cook. The two talk often about ...Read Review

The Mighty Miss Malone

By Christopher Paul Curtis - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

From award-winning children’s author Christopher Paul Curtis comes a companion book to Bud Not Buddy, The Mighty Miss Malone. Mentioned briefly in ...Read Review

R My Name is Rachel

By Patricia Reilly Giff - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rachel has lived in the city her whole life and loves her neighborhood: Charlie the butcher, Clarence the stray cat, Mrs. Lazarus her ...Read Review

Storyteller

By Patricia Reilly Giff - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip

Elizabeth’s father has left for Australia, leaving her with an aunt she barely knows. But her aunt’s home feels oddly welcoming, ...Read Review

Alligator Bayou

By Donna Jo Napoli - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Alligator Bayou recounts an overlooked but disturbing episode of American history: the persecution and lynching of Italians immigrants. Calogero arrives from Sicily at ...Read Review

The Winter War

By William Durbin - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Solid young adult author (most reviews give the age ranges for his books as upper elementary through middle school) William Durbin is reliable ...Read Review

Counting on Grace

By Elizabeth Winthrop - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

  Living in a Vermont mill town in 1910, 12-year-old Grace expects to join her mother and older sister at the mill soon. Her ...Read Review

Eyes of the Emperor

By Graham Salisbury - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

“…if they ever let us fight in this war, I will stand up and go to the end. They’re not going to ...Read Review