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The Bard and The Book by Ann Bausum
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. He came to be known as the Bard of Avon, or the poet from Avon. But his fame was made in London. While he worked in London, first as an...
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The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by...
Feige Peltel, known by her code name of Vladka, is headed towards Warsaw's wealthier district, hoping to sell ribbons, spools of thread and other sewing goods. Vladka's light brown hair and grey-green...
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The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
The undocumented immigrant experience is told in this graphic novel memoir by Francisco Jimenez. Under The WireFrancisco Jimenez lived in a small village, El Rancho Blanco, located several miles north...
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Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
It is a Saturday in October 1932, and Gemma Chow and her older sister May are on their way out of City Market in Los Angeles to try to sell their flowers elsewhere. Only a third of their inventory has...
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Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke The Nazis' Secret Code by...
Spying on Spies tells the story of a remarkable woman cryptographer, Elizebeth Smith Friedman.Elizebeth was the youngest of ten children in a Quaker family. She grew up on a dairy farm in Indiana. An...
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Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan
Eleven-year-old Safiyyah wants to travel and explore the world. She loved spending afternoons in the library where Madame Odette would bring out the right maps for Safiyyah to explore the places she...
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Trajectory by Cambria Gordon
It is May 1942 and seventeen-year-old Eleanor Schiff lives with her twelve-year-old sister Sarah and her parents in Jenkintown, a small suburb in Philadelphia. Eleanor's father is a brilliant...
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The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse
Eighteen-year-old Edda Grace St. James had been a telephone operator with the American Expeditionary Forces, on the western front in France, in 1918. Her job was to "...answer the line, match the code...
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Wings To Soar by Tina Athaide
Ten-year-old Viva is with her older sister Anna and her Mummy in a refugee camp in England. Viva is Goan and she speaks English, Portuguese, Swahili and Konkani. Her father is still back in Uganda, at...
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Eyes On The Ice by Anna Rosner
Ten-year-old Lukas Burian, his twelve-year-old brother Denys, and six-year-old brother Alexander and their parents, Nadia and Josef live in a three room apartment at the top of a four storey building...
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Sea Without A Shore by Barbara Rosenstock
Sea Without A Shore explores the unique world of the Sargasso Sea, the only sea without a shore. It is located hundreds of miles into the Atlantic Ocean and is saltier and warmer than the surrounding...
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Up, Up, Ever Up! by Anita Yasuda
Up, Up, Ever Up! is the story of Junko Takei, a Japanese woman determined to be a mountain climber.Junko grew up under the sakura trees on her mountain, dreaming of climbing. At the age of ten, Junko...
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Uprooted by Ruth Chan
Uprooted is a memoir about going back to your family's country of origin. It is the summer of 1993 and Ruth Chan is spending one last day with her best friends at Canada's Wonderland. In two days, she...
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Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools by...
In Stealing Little Moon, author Dan Sasuweh Jones explores the legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools within .Chapter One Kill the Indian In Him explores how the Indian residential boarding...
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Swan: the Girl Who Grew by Sidura Ludwig
Swan offers a fictionalized account of the real historical person, Anna Swan who grew to be almost eight feet tall.It is August, 1858. Anna Swan is twelve-years-old and the biggest girl in Colchester...
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Lost At Windy River. A True Story of Survival by Trina Rathgeber
Lost at Windy River is the reclaimed survival story of Ilse Schweder. Ilse was thirteen-years-old and living at Windy River, a northern trading post with her father Fred, her older brothers Charles and...
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Gold Rush: The Untold Story of the First Nation's woman who started the...
The Yukon Territory is located in northwest Canada and is known for its beautiful wilderness, with glaciers and rugged mountains. The summers are short, the winters long and dark. Cutting through the...
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Radar and the Raft by Jeff Lantos
Radar and the Raft is an account of the remarkable survival of seventeen passengers of a freighter torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. Their survival was in part due to the development of radar, a...
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Spooky Lakes by Geo Rutherford
Spooky Lakes by Geo Rutherford features twenty-five strange and mysterious lakes found on planet Earth. The book opens with an introduction to limnology, the study of lakes. "A lake is typically a...
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Lion Dancers by Cai Tse
Thirteen-year-old Wei Lee's father, Yuho Lee was part of the Black Tiger Lion Dance troupe that won the championship at the Twelfth Asia International Lion Dance Championships two years ago. Watching...
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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth (Lizzie) Novis is on her way to America. Escorted by Fleetwood, her Gran's estate steward, Lizzie is aboard a steamship at the port in Liverpool. She's to travel to...
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Pearl by Sherri L. Smith
This graphic novel opens in 1886 with the story of Amy's great-grandmother who was an ama, or a pearl diver on the shores of Honshu in Japan. Amy hear many stories about her sosobo especially one where...
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for the reaping ceremony of the Hunger Games. Snow, heir to the house of Snow lives in the war torn Capitol of Panem. Snow, along with his elderly...
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A 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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Sunrise 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...
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