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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on the train to take her to the boat back New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
6) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Griffin is sent to stay with his detective uncle at 221A Baker Street for the summer, he is certain that his uncle must be the great Sherlock Holmes! But Griffin is disappointed to discover that Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street and his uncle lives unit 221A. His uncle is a detective, just not a very good one. But when Griffin meets a woman with a case that Holmes has turned away for being too ridiculous, he and his uncle team up to help her....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is an elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her. And then the bombs start to fall ...
10) The player king
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1910, twelve-year-old Savannah lives with her widowed father on a whaling station in New South Wales, Australia. For generations, the Dawson family has carried on a very unusual way of life there. They use orcas to help them hunt whales. But Savannah believes the orcas hunted something else--her older brothers, who died mysteriously while fishing. Haunted by their deaths, Savannah wants to become a whaler to prove to her father that she's good...
12) The known world
Author
Language
English
Description
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
Author
Series
Gods and warriors volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
313 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Hylas, a lowly twelve-year-old goatherd, thief, and outsider, journeys from the Greek mountains to Crete and Egypt, making allies with animals, battling tyranny, and withstanding the elemental powers of the gods of land and sea.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.
16) Good fortune
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
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