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I’ll Take Everything You Have

By James Klise - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Katherine Marsh - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

Acts of Resistance

By Dominic Carrillo - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In Bulgaria in 1943, the Nazis are making deals with a collaborationist regime to deport the country’s Jewish population to death camps. Three ...Read Review

Escape Route

By Elan Barnehama - Published 2022

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Growing up in New York City in the late 1960s, 13-year-old Zach’s life is defined by his Jewish roots and the war ...Read Review

The Ravens of Vienna

By Adrian Grafe - Published 2022

Genres:

Thriller

Felix Lichtblau is a banker in World War II Vienna, using his position to bribe Nazi officials at the same time as he ...Read Review

These Are Not the Words

By Amanda West Lewis - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Twelve-year-old Miranda Billie Taylor, known as Missy, lives in Manhattan’s East Village in 1963 with her photojournalist and jazz-drumming father and aspiring artist ...Read Review

This Rebel Heart

By Katherine Locke - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

On the eve of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 18-year-old Csilla works as a typist for a newspaper in Budapest and lives with her aunt ...Read Review

Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

By Margarita Engle - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rima is a “natural” child in Cuba in the early 20th century. Her father, a wealthy landowner, had an affair with one of ...Read Review

Goodnight, Vienna

By Marius Gabriel - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

Katya, daughter of Russian nobles who fled the Bolsheviks, dreams of practicing medicine, but her impecunious parents, now living in Paris, arrange for ...Read Review

The Silent Unseen: A Novel of World War II

By Amanda McCrina - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Making her way back to her Polish village in 1944 after years of forced labor under the Nazis, 16-year-old Maria hides from Soviet troops ...Read Review