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Blood and Sand by C.V. Wyk
Blood and Sand is the first installment of Wyk's alternative historical fiction series. Set in Ancient Rome, in approximately 79 A.D., Blood and Sand presents an alternative story about the slave...
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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down by prolific and award winning author/poet Jason Reynolds tackles the troubling issue of gun violence. In this novel-in-verse, the events are narrated by fifteen-year-old William Holloman...
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Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson
Pioneer Girl is a picture book biography of one of America's most famous pioneers, Laura Ingalls Wilder and author of the beloved "Little House on the Prairie" children's novels. Laura Ingalls was born...
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A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes tells the story of one boy's journey to escape war in his beloved Syria. This deeply moving novel makes the Syrian refugee crisis painfully real to young readers. The story...
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When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Seventeen-year-old Dimple Shah lives to code.And she fully intends to go to Insomnia Con 2017 on the San Francisco State University campus during the summer. Participants must design a ground-breaking...
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Shane by Jack Schaefer
The classic western novel, Shane penned by Jack Schaefer in 1949 tells the story of a mysterious stranger who rides into in a small Wyoming valley one day in the summer of 1889 and forever alters life...
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Long Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics by Jean L. S. Patrick
Lucille Ellerby Godbold or Ludy as she was called, was one of America's first Olympic champions. Ludy was born in Marion County on May 31, 1900. She was part of a large family that included seven...
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The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In The Island at the End of Everything, twelve-year-old Amihan lives on Culion with her mother Nanay who has leprosy and was one of the first to arrive on the island. Amihan was born not long after....
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Da Vinci's Tiger by L.M. Elliott
It is January, 1475. Sixteen-year-old Ginevra de' Benci Niccolini is seated in the front row with her friend Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci at a joust being held in the Piazza di Santa Croce."The Medici...
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Missing Mike by Shari Green
Eleven-year-old Cara Donovan's world is turned upside down when her family is forced to flee from raging wildfires and her beloved rust-coloured mutt, Mike goes missing in the chaos.Cara's town of Pine...
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Words On Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
Sixteen-year-old Adam Petrazelli has schizophrenia. He is unusual in that his symptoms appeared when he was young, around the age of eight. Adam sees things that other people do not see, like...
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Small Things by Mel Tregonning
Small Things is a picture book without words about the timely topic of anxiety in children.The book begins with a young boy in school gym class. He wants to fit in with his classmates, to be chosen to...
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The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland
Fifteen-year-old Hortense Beauharnais is a survivor of the French Revolution. It is 1798, four years after the Reign of Terror ended with the beheading of its architect, Robespierre. Hortense's father,...
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House of Dreams by Liz Rosenberg
Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best know for her novel, Anne of Green Gables that told the story of a red-haired orphan, Anne Shirley who is adopted by siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert....
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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
Twelve-year-old Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning four years ago. Lucy was playing with her friend Cecelia, outside the apartment building she and Nana lived in when a sudden thunderstorm...
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The Button War: A Tale of the Great War by Avi
It is August 1914. Patryk is one of seven boys who form a group in a small village in Poland which at this time is occupied by the Russians. On this late summer day the boys are hanging out at the old...
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What The Night Sings: A Novel by Vesper Stamper
There are many young adult novels that tell the heart-wrenching story of the Holocaust, the increasing restrictions on the Jewish citizens in Germany and throughout Europe, the forced removal of Jews...
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Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
YaTa "who is my daughter" lives with her mother and father and her five brothers, Issac, Jacob, Abraham, Elijah and Caleb, in a small village in Nigeria. Her papa loves to listen nonstop to his radio...
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Winnie's Great War by Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut
Cole is ready for bed when his mother asks him if he wants to hear the story of his stuffed bear. When he asks for something different, Cole's mother offers to tell her son the real story about his...
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Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Jennifer A. Nielsen's newest historical fiction for teens explores the courageous fight by hundreds of Jewish resistance fighters as they make their last stand during the liquidation of the Warsaw...
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