Rachel's Hope by Shelly Sanders
Rachel's Hope is the final installment in the Rachel trilogy that traces the journey of Rachel Paskar and her family who have fled the 1903 pogrom in Russian to Shanghai, China and are now in San...
View ArticleThe True Story of Vanilla by Ann Richards
Edmond was born in August, 1829 on the Bellier-Beaumont sugar plantation on Reunion, a small island in the Indian Ocean. His mother, Melise and his father Pamphile were both slaves owned by Elvire...
View ArticleDinosaurs by Rachel Ignotofsky
Dinosaurs aims to present the evolution of life on Earth in an engaging way to young readers. Before embarking on this incredible journey through time, Ignotofsky provides readers with some background...
View ArticleThe Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Eleven-year-old Parvana is sitting with her father on a blanket in the Kabul marketplace. Her head and shoulders are completely covered by her chador. She is there to help her father walk from home to...
View ArticleSeabird by Michelle Kadarusman
It is 1892. Kartini is the second oldest daughter and one of eight children of her father Sosroningrat, Regent of Jepara, Java, in the Dutch West Indies. Her mother (Ma) is her father's first wife....
View ArticleA Storm Unleashed by Carol Matas
Twelve-year-old Marianne (Mia) Kaufmann lives in Berlin with her father, Dr. Adam Kaufman who is a Jewish veterinarian who owns his own clinic. Mia's mother Johanna died from an infection she...
View ArticleThe Voyage That Changed The World by Thekla Priebst
The Voyage That Changed The World tells the remarkable story of the first crew to sail around the world.The story begins with a spice called cloves or cengkih. Hundreds of years ago this spice grew...
View ArticleFreedom Seeker by Ruchira Gupta
Twelve-year-old Simran (Simi) Singh lives in Northern India with her mother, Henna Ali (Ammi) who is Muslim and her father Gurbeer Singh (Abbu) who is Hindu/Sikh. Ammi is a nurse while her father works...
View ArticleFitting Indian by Jyoti Chand
Sixteen-year-old Nitasha Gupta lives with her mother and father and her older brother Shaan in Southern California. Her family is East Indian. Nitasha hates the constant smell of tumeric and garam...
View ArticleThe Blossoming Summer by Anna Rose Johnson
It is 1940 and the Germans have invaded France and the Low Countries (Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg - neutral countries). Thirteen-year-old Rosemary Rivers lives with her mother's older brother,...
View ArticleAcross So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
Across So Many Seas tells the stories of four young girls of Jewish ancestry in four very different eras.The story begins in Toledo, Spain in the year 1492. Benvenida Toledano lives in Toledo with her...
View ArticleLeila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Twelve-year-old Leila Saleh is on her way to meeting up with her mother, Amani Saleh, a meteorologist and researcher in Norway. Leila has been living with her aunt and her cousin, seventeen-year-old...
View ArticleZarina Divided by Reem Faruqi
Zarina Divided is a story told in free verse about one family's experience during the Partition in 1947.Zarina's family are Muslim and her mother, a petite woman, is expecting another baby....
View ArticleThe Peacemaker by Joseph Bruchac
Okwaho and his best friend Tawis live in a small village called Kanata, which is nestled in the hills near Long Creek. Their little community made up of only fourteen families, a total of fifty...
View ArticleBeyond Amelia by Heather Stemp
Beyond Amelia is the third book in the Ginny Ross Series. It is August 1940 and Ginny finds herself alone at Purdue University Airport. Her best friends Jamie and Jack, boyfriend Matt, have enlisted...
View ArticleJella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams by Katherine Paterson
Jella was born in 1891 in Stuttgart, Germany, the eldest daughter of a Jewish couple, Josef and Flora Lehmann. Her father owned a men's clothing store. Jella and her two sisters attended an elite...
View ArticleAll The Blues In the Sky by Renee Watson
Thirteen-year-old Sage didn't know best friends could die. But one month ago, on her birthday, her best friend died. "And a good day, turned into a bad day, turned into the worst day."Sage lives with...
View ArticleThe House On The Canal by Thomas Harding
A building located in the middle of Amsterdam next to a canal was referred to by Anne Frank as "the old house on the canal." That house had it's beginnings long ago. In 1580, the land where the "tall,...
View ArticleSunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
It is the fiftieth annual Hunger Games but it is also the Second Quarter Quell, meaning twice as many tributes will be reaped: two boys and two girls from each district. Taken "off to the Capitol for...
View ArticleA Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
Seventeen-year-old Hwang Boyeon (Iseul)is determined to find her older sister, Suyeon who was kidnapped only three days earlier by the tyrant King Yeonsan who rules Korea. The two sisters had lost...
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