Bonnie Kelso

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

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

Genres:

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