Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Present, Still Missing

By Kg Mach - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

World War II has just ended, and 12-year-old Irene can’t wait to see her soldier father again. She considers herself lucky; her ...Read Review

The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli

By Karina Yan Glaser - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This dual-timeline narrative for middle grade readers centers on a piece of silk that connects an 11-year-old boy living in China in 731 and ...Read Review

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

By María Dolores Águila - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Roberto is the youngest of four children, the only one born in the United States. To his Mexican immigrant family in 1930, he is ...Read Review

The Rebel Girls of Rome

By Jordyn Taylor - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Taylor, author of the bestselling YA novel The Paper Girl of Paris, again uses a dual-timeline narrative to portray young women who resist ...Read Review

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

By Daniel Nayeri - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

After their father dies in the crossfire of war between the invading Allies and Axis in World War II, 13-year-old Babak and 8-year-old ...Read Review

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

We Bury Nothing

By Kate Blair - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Toronto high-school student Keira is obsessed with the mysterious death of a young German POW in a rural camp in Canada just weeks ...Read Review

Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance

By Anita Pazner - By Sophie Casson (illus.) - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This fictionalized biography in verse for middle-grade readers narrates the story of siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the White Rose Resistance ...Read Review

CeeCee: Underground Railroad Cinderella

By Laura Freeman (illus.) - By Shana Keller - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In the years before the American Civil War, CeeCee is enslaved on a Maryland plantation, waiting on two spoiled girls who are not ...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