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Craze

By Margaret Vandenburg - Published 2024

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It’s the roaring ´20s in New York City, and art critic Henrietta “Henri” Adams has landed a new job as a journalist ...Read Review

Age 16

By Rosena Fung - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Roz and her girlfriends contemplate attending the Forever in the Stars Prom at their high school. Roz imagines losing weight and stunning ...Read Review

The Time Keeper

By Meagan Mahoney - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Mystery/Crime

The Time Keeper is a lively mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland in the year 1902. When eleven-year-old Malcolm’s best friend, Peter, becomes unexplainably ...Read Review

Eyes on the Ice

By Anna Rosner - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1963 Soviet-controlled Prague, three brothers play hockey on a frozen pond with makeshift equipment while their father cheers them on, until they are ...Read Review

Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival

By Alina Pete (illus.) - By Trina Rathgeber - Published 2024

Genres:

Adventure Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

When thirteen-year-old Ilse is separated from her brothers while routinely checking on winter traps in northern Canada, she must face the toughest challenge ...Read Review

Veena and the Red Roti: A Story of Hope during Partition

By Beena Mistry (illus.) - By Namita Moolani Mehra - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

Young Veena learns that freedom can have dramatic consequences when she and her family are forced to emigrate after the 1947 Partition of India. ...Read Review

Endurance: The Frozen Keep (Endurance Graphic Novel)

By Terrill Sullivan - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Englishman Jack Robinson is a crew member aboard the Endurance on an epic journey, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, to reach the South ...Read Review

Two Pieces of Chocolate

By Gabrielle Grimard (illus.) - By Kathy Kacer - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

While trying to escape Paris during World War II, Francine and her mother are arrested and end up in Bergen-Belsen, a German concentration ...Read Review

An Etrog from Across the Sea

By Deborah Bodin Cohen - By Kerry Olitzky - By Stacey Dressen McQueen (illus.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Young Leah and Aaron receive a letter from their Papa, who is sailing from Corsica to colonial New York. He promises to bring ...Read Review

The Orphan

By Sylvia M Warsh - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Fifteen-year-old Samuel Evans suddenly wakes up on the dissection table of an 1844 Washington City (currently Washington, DC) medical laboratory, much to the surprise ...Read Review