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Foul Lady Fortune

Chloe Gong - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai.It's 1931 in Shanghai,...
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The Davenports

Krystal Marquis - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in a breathless YA series set in 1910 Chicago, The Davenports offers a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked, while delivering a totally escapist, swoon-worthy readThe Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing...
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A Million to One

Adiba Jaigirdar - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship. Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark...
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Rust in the Root

JUSTINA IRELAND - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America.It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those...
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Beneath the Wide Silk Sky

Emily Inouye Huey - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Stunning, devastating, poignant: debut author Emily Inouye Huey paints an intimate portrait of the racism faced by America's Japanese population during WWII. Perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Sharon Cameron.Sam Sakamoto doesn't have space in her life for dreams. With the recent...
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Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, 1)

Joan He - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne....
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Daughters of a Dead Empire

Carolyn Tara O'Neil - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war -- the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers...
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Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken

Nita Tyndall - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the midst of the horrors of war. The ending had me in tears." - Malinda Lo, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Last Night at the Telegraph ClubFor fans of Ruta Sepetys...
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One for All: A Novel

Lillie Lainoff
Format: Hardcover

"There are no limits to the will -- and the strength -- of this unique female hero." -- Tamora Pierce, writer of the Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartetsOne for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness...
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So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix

Bethany C. Morrow - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life." It is where the March family has finally...
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The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin

Kip Wilson - Versify
Format: Book

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip WilsonAfter her eighteenth birthday, Hilde, a former...

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Anatomy: A Love Story

Dana Schwartz - Wednesday Books
Format: Book

Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die.When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel...

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Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times notable bookAn international bestsellerA Carnegie Medal nomineeA William C. Morris Award finalistA Golden Kite Award winnerJune, 1941. A knock comes at the door and the life of fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas changes forever. She's arrested by the Soviet secret police...
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The Perfect Place to Die

Bryce Moore - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

"Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one." -- BOOKLIST , STARRED ReviewStalking Jack the Ripper meets Devil in the White City in this terrifying historical fiction debut about one of the world's most notorious serial killers.In order to save her sister,...
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This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II

Andrew Fukuda - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals -- a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl -- as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war."I remember visiting...
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The Reckless Kind

Carly Heath - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

It's 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn't want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future, given her single-sided deafness, unconventional appearance, and even stranger...
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Before We Disappear

Shaun David Hutchinson - HarperTeen
Format: Book

Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1908 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

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Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix

Aminah Mae Safi - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi, a thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of Robin Hood.Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy...
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The City Beautiful

Aden Polydoros - Inkyard Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

"The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams." - Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQ Reads and editor of That Way Madness LiesDeath lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows...
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Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Constance is not interested in marriage or in being a "young lady." But for a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, that's just about all that's available to her. When her parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her age, she's...
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The Forest of Stolen Girls

June Hur - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene. Years later, Detective Min -- Hwani's father -- learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared from the same forest...
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Saving Savannah

Tonya Bolden - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed author Tonya Bolden comes the story of a teen girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s.Savannah Riddle is lucky. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., she attends one of the most...
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A Sitting in St. James

Rita Williams-Garcia - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantation - and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there - is essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American...
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The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes & Other Dauntless Girls

Jessica Spotswood - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In an anthology of revolution and resistance, a sisterhood of YA writers shines a light on a century and a half of heroines on the margins and in the intersections.To respect yourself, to love yourself, should not have to be a radical decision. And yet it remains as challenging for an American...
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

Laura Ruby - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award 2019 Finalist!From the author of Printz Medal winner Bone Gap comes the unforgettable story of two young women - one living, one dead - dealing with loss, desire, and the fragility of the American dream during WWII.When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings...
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Angel of Greenwood

Randi Pink

Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim the
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We Are Not Free

Traci Chee - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone." From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free,...
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The Light in Hidden Places

Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron.One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...It is 1943, and for four...
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Muse

Brittany Cavallaro - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

American Royals meets The Winner's Curse in the first book of a dazzling duology from New York Times bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro about revolution, love, and friendship in a reimagined American monarchy. The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire...
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Stage Dreams

Melanie Gillman
Format: Book

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Lizard in a Zoot Suit

Marco Finnegan
Format: Hardcover

Los Angeles, 1943. It's the era of the Zoot Suit Riots, and Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It's bigger than being grounded by their strict mother. It's bigger than tensions with the soldiers stationed nearby. And it's shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard. When a lost member...
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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

David Elliott - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Joan of Arc gets the Hamilton treatment in this evocative novel. Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices...
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Lovely War

Julie Berry - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of...
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Front Lines

Michael Grant - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Code Name Verity, New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.World War II, 1942. A court decision makes...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

MACKENZI LEE

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s in this hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel. A young bisexual British lord who embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush stars. An 18th-century romantic
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Outrun the Moon

Stacey Lee - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

From the author of the critically acclaimed "Under a Painted Sky, "an unforgettable story of determination set against a backdrop of devastating tragedy. Perfect for fans of "Code Name Verity. " San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break...
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Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything...
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Uprising

Margaret Peterson Haddix - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly.... Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die." Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a chance to live. Bella, newly arrived...
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Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All: by M. T. Anderson, Candace Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson

M T Anderson - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for anyone fascinated by the Royal Wedding, Netflix's The Crown, or Wolf Hall, this is a pitch-perfect reimagining of the romance and tragedy of Henry VIII and his six wives, told from multiple points of view by some of your favorite authors.If you were one of King...
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Orphan Monster Spy

MATT KILLEEN - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world.After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full...
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Dream Country

Shannon Gibney

The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom."This novel is a remarkable achievement."--Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist&qu
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Vengeance Road

Erin Bowman - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover

When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers,...
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Four-Four-Two

Dean Hughes - Atheneum Children'S Books
Format: Print book

From the author of Soldier Boys and Search and Destroy comes a thought-provoking, action-packed page-turner based on the little-known history of the Japanese Americans who fought with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's the start...
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Joseph Bruchac - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they...
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Flygirl

Sherri L Smith - Speak
Format: Paperback

For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys.All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters...
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Out of Darkness

Ashley Hope Pérez - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Hardcover

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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All the Stars Denied

Guadalupe García McCall - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe Garcia McCall tackles the hidden history of the United States and its first mass deportation event that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.
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