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Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash

By Tammy Pasterick - Published 2021

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Set amid the factories and coal mines of western Pennsylvania, Pasterick’s novel follows several interconnected families over the course of seven years. ...Read Review

The Shadow War

By Lindsay Smith - Published 2021

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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Magic and history combine in an exciting tale set behind the lines in World War II Germany as five teens try to take ...Read Review

Traitors Among Us

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch - Published 2021

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Children/Young Adult

Two Ukrainian sisters—16-year-old Krystia and 14-year-old Maria—think they’re safe once they’ve escaped to an American-run refugee camp in Germany ...Read Review

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

By G. D. Falksen - Published 2021

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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