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Louder Than Words by Kathy Kacer
Twelve-year-old Eldina Sternik lives with her mother and her younger sisters, six-year-old Gennadiy (Nadia) and baby Galya. They are Jews who live in the city of Proskurov, Ukraine. Dina's Papa had...
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Clan by Sigmund Brouwer
Clan is a novel about a boy's quest to find his place within his clan and to find redemption after disaster strikes. The story is set in prehistoric North America, during the end of the last Ice...
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The Journey That Saved Curious George by Louise Borden
The Journey That Saved Curious George is a children's biography about the little-known wartime escape of Margret and H.A. Rey from France, to Brazil and then America.Their story begins in Germany where...
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Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink
Angel of Greenwood tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre through the eyes of two young people. The story begins on Thursday, May 19, twelve days before the riot. Angel Hill lives on Greenwood...
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Voices of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. Her parents, James and Lou Ella Townsend were sharecroppers who were paid fifty dollars for producing another field hand....
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Call Across The Sea by Kathy Kacer
Sixteen-year-old Henny Sinding lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with Mor (her mother) and Far (her father). Henny has grown up on the waters of the channel, learning how to sail before she could...
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Thrive by Kenneth Oppel
Thrive is the final installment in the Bloom trilogy opening where the second book left off. A cryptogen ship has just been shot down by the Canadian military. From the vessel three cryptogens emerge;...
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The Boy Who Invented The Popsicle by Anne Renaud
Young Frank William Epperson wanted to be an inventor. He enjoyed practicing his cornet, having adventures with his younger brother Cray and learning magic tricks. He was also curious about the world...
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What The Kite Saw by Anne Laurel Carter
What The Kite Saw is a short picture book that tells the story of how a little boy copes when war comes to his town.When the tanks rolled into his town, the soldiers took the little boy's father and...
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The Secret Of Bones by June Hur
Sixteen-year-old Seol is working as a damo, an indentured servant, for the police bureau in Hanyang, the capital of Joseon. She has been indentured for her entire lifetime, until she is forty-one years...
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Pirate Queen: A Story of Zheng Yi Sao by Helaine Becker
Sitting combing her hair, a young woman doesn't realize that pirates are maurading through the city, smashing windows, looting and killing. Their captain, Zheng Yi has sent his men to seize young women...
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Noa and the Little Elephant: A tale of friendship and survival by Michael...
This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the fictional story of a young boy who loves to watch the animals around the great river where he lives.Noa liked to watch the wading birds, zebras and...
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When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohammed
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan live in Dabaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. They were born in Somalia, but fled their home due to the war. They have been in Dabaab for seven years. While many in the...
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The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayless
Sixteen-year-old Amra Sabic lives in the city of Bihac, in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has recently declared its independence from Yugoslavia. It is 1992 and Amra is on the train from...
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When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Three best friends forever linked by a moment in time, experience the horrors of the Holocaust. Leo Grunberg, Max Fischer and Elsa Bauer spend Leo's ninth birthday riding on Vienna's famous Ferris...
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All He Knew by Helen Frost
The story begins in September 1939 with Henry and his Mama on the Greyhound bus to Riverview. Henry is not sure why his sister Molly cried when they left. As they travel on the bus, Henry thinks about...
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My Indian by Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill
My Indian is a historical fiction account of Sylvester Joe, a Mi'kmaq guide who accompanied William Epps Cormack, a Canadian Scottish explorer who journeyed across the interior of Newfoundland in 1822....
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White Bird by R.J. Palacio
White Bird picks up the story of Julian Albans from Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Julian was the boy who bullied Auggie Pullman.Julian reaches out to his grandmere who lives in France to help him with a...
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The Girl With A Mind For Math by Julia Finley Mosca
When Raye Montague was only seven years old, her grandfather took her to see her first ship. This ship was a submarine and it astounded Raye. She was told engineers built the ship but that she didn't...
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Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna
It is April 17, 1975 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge have seized the city, after five years of fighting the American-backed Khmer Republic.While most cheered the victory believing that it was...
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