Lyn Miller-Lachmann
The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
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Abendanon draws loosely from her grandmother’s experience in a World War II internment camp in Dutch East India, now Indonesia, to present ...Read Review
The Blood Years
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Arnold powerfully honors her grandmother’s experiences in this coming-of-age novel set in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), during World War II. Although 13...Read Review
Artifice
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The daughter of Amsterdam artists, eighteen-year-old Isa de Smit has suffered ever since her mother’s death and the Nazi occupation of the ...Read Review
Buffalo Flats
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When seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt believes she is sitting next to God on a rocky parcel of land, she is determined to buy this ...Read Review
The Night Raven (The Moonwind Mysteries)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Mika is a twelve-year-old orphan in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1880. She has never known life outside the orphanage. She doesn’t even know her ...Read Review
Clouds over California
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Stevie, a shy sixth grader, has just moved to a new neighborhood and school in the Los Angeles area in the early 1970s. ...Read Review
Escape ’56: A Novel
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At ten years old, Erzsi Molnár has known nothing but oppression at the hands of the communist regime that rules Hungary. But ...Read Review
A Sky Full of Song
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After marauding Cossacks in the Russian Empire leave her mother with a head injury, eleven-year-old Shoshana, called “Shoshi,” and her Jewish family take ...Read Review
I’ll Take Everything You Have
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In 1934, during the Great Depression, sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe takes a summer job at a hotel in Chicago to earn money to save the ...Read Review
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
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This dual-timeline narrative begins in 2020 with 12-year-old Matthew, homebound because of Covid lockdowns and separated from his journalist father posted to Europe. Because ...Read Review
