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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious... |
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From Fever 1793 "Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's? "I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots. "And?" I waved a mosquito... |
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Soldier Dog
Sam Angus - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone.Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away... |
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A School for Unusual Girls: A Stranje House Novel
Kathleen Baldwin - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover
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A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing."It's... |
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
Tonya Bolden - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named... |
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier
Format: Print book
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The classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary War -- now with special After Words bonus features!All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants |
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With Every Drop of Blood
James Collier - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The authors of My Brother Sam Is Dead examine the causes of the Civil War in the tale of an unlikely friendship formed between a Yankee soldier who is a runaway slave and the Rebel boy he captures. |
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and with |
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A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly - Harcourt Children's Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over... |
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These shallow graves
Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which... |
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Across A War-Tossed Sea
L.M. Elliott - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1943, and World War II is raging. To escape the terror of the Blitz, ten-year-old Wesley and fourteen-year-old Charles were evacuated from England to America. After a few near misses with German U-boats and a treacherous ocean crossing, the brothers arrived in Virginia. The culture... |
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Threads and Flames
Esther Friesner - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Its 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. Its overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle... |
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery... |
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The Jewish Dog
Asher Kravitz - Flashlight Pr
Format: Print book
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Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naive, often sage, perspective of a remarkable dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of the Holocaust as never seen before. This bestselling novel in Israel follows the life and thoughts of Caleb,... |
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World War II Book 1: The Right Fight
Chris Lynch - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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There are few things Roman loves as much as baseball, but his country is at the top of the list. So when it looks like the United States will be swept up into World War II, he turns his back on baseball and joins the US Army. Roman doesn't mind. As it turns out, he is far more talented... |
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Dead to Me
Mary McCoy - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Don't believe anything they say." |
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Burn Baby Burn
Meg Medina - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer... |
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The Lost Crown
Sarah Miller - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Like the fingers on a hand -- first headstrong Olga then Tatiana, the tallest Maria the most hopeful for aring andAnastasia, the smallest. These are the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, grand duchesses living a life steeped in tradition and privilege.... |
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Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope PeÌrez - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Hardcover
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A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honor Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year2016 Toms Rivera Book Award Winner "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes... |
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Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers,... |
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The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early... |
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington PostLina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home,... |
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Out of The Easy
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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It's 1950 and the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled... |
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's... |
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
Robin Talley - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover
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In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. . Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes,... |
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Uncertain Glory
Lea Wait - Islandport Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joe Wood has big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only thirteen, he's already borrowed money for the equipment to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. He has to help Owen, his young assistant,... |
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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein - Hyperion
Format: Book
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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's... |
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Maid of the King's Court
Lucy Worsley - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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In the vibrant, volatile court of Henry VIII, can even the most willful young woman direct her own fate and follow her heart in a world ruled by powerful men?Clever, headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne knows her duty. As the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, Eliza... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's... |
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