Lyn Miller-Lachmann

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

By G. D. Falksen - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Living with her single father in a working-class neighborhood of London in 1967, 16-year-old Kitty doesn’t know she’s autistic. Unable to fit ...Read Review

The Story of Bodri

By Hédi Fried - By Linda Schenck (trans.) - By Stina Wirsén (illus.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor describes what it was like to listen to Hitler’s threats on the radio and experience their consequences when ...Read Review

Angel of Greenwood

By Randi Pink - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Angel Hill and Isaiah Wilson have grown up in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the prosperous Black community known until summer 1921 as “...Read Review

A Place to Hang the Moon

By Kate Albus - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Orphans William, Edmund, and Anna have recently lost their only living relative, their grandmother. Because it’s 1940 and the Germans are bombing London ...Read Review

The Passover Guest

By Sean Rubin (illus.) - By Susan Kusel - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1933 during the Great Depression, young Muriel walks through Washington, D.C. staring at the cherry blossoms and the Lincoln Memorial, where a ...Read Review

Just Like That

By Gary D. Schmidt - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

After the death of her best friend, Mary Jane Kowalski’s parents send her to boarding school in Maine for eighth grade. The ...Read Review

The Sword and the Spear (Sands of the Emperor, 2)

By Mia Couto - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

This tale of star-crossed lovers begins in Mozambique in 1895, in a boat on the Inharrime River with 15-year-old Imani Nsambe, her father, and ...Read Review

Chasing Starlight

By Teri Bailey Black - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Kate Hildebrand is a survivor. At the age of 13, kidnappers associated with her ne’er-do-well father locked her in a dark room for ...Read Review

I Am Here Now

By Barbara Bottner - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When this free-verse novel begins in 1960, fourteen-year-old Maisie lives with her unhappily married parents and misfit younger brother, David, in a cramped apartment ...Read Review

Red Menace

By Lois Ruby - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It’s 1953 in a college town in Kansas, and 13-year-old Marty Rafner and his parents are counting down the days until the execution ...Read Review