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A Place To Hang The Moon by Kate Albus
Twelve-year-old William Pearce, his eleven-year-old brother Edmund, and nine-year-old sister Anna are struggling to navigate the guests at their grandmother's funeral. They didn't particularly like...
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Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van...
"On Saturday, May 21, 1796, Ona Judge, a twenty-two-year-old slave of President George Washington and his wife, Martha, escaped the president's Philadelphia mansion and never looked back." Never...
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Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
In this unique collaboration between long time friends Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, a black teen explores a world that has become overwhelming and suffocating. The young teen sits at home...
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Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
Uriah-Tarhund, son of Arnandash is a Hittite who lives in the Hittite province of Arzawa with his father and mother, and his sister Annitis. On his thirteenth birthday, Uriah learns from his father...
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Just A Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi
Just A Girl tells of Lia Levi's war-time experiences as a Jewish girl growing up in Italy.Six-year-old Lia lives in Turin, Italy with her parents and her two younger sisters, Gabriella and Vera. Lia is...
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Mornings With Monet by Barb Rosenstock
Claude Monet awakes at 3:30 in the morning, dresses and hurries out of his pink stucco house. He hurries across the road, past the water lily pond to the river where a rowboat awaits. There in the boat...
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Alias Anna by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson
Zhanna Dimitrinov Arshanskya was born April 1, 1927 in Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union. Zhanna's mother Sara, an avid reader, chose the Russian name closest to Joan of Arc, beloved heroine of...
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The Red Palace by June Hur
The Red Palace is yet another outstanding historical fiction novel by author June Hur. This time the setting is 18th century Korea.Baek-Hyeon (Hyeon) is an eighteen-year-old nae-uinyeo or nurse who...
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The March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
This graphic novel is the first in a series telling the story of civil rights leader and former Democratic Congressman, John Robert Lewis, one of the "Big Six" leaders who organized the March on...
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One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World's Oldest University by M.O. Yuksel
In the ninth century, Fatima al-Fihri was a little girl with a deep love of learning and a big dream. While a small child, she wanted to learn about the world around her. At this time, while boys...
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Ablaze With Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Alma was a girl who loved "the sparkling colors of nature": the"pastel purple violets and crimson roses crowned by bright green banana leaves". She always enjoyed being outside because the colours of...
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Lines of Courage by Jennifer A. Nielsen
In Lines of Courage, Nielsen weaves together the stories of five fictional characters from different countries to bring to life the events of World War I .Felix Baum Twelve-year-old Felix Baum lives in...
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Harvey Takes The Lead by Colleen Nelson
Harvey, everyone's favourite West Highland Terrier returns for another adventure in Harvey Takes the Lead.Brayside Retirement home has a new assistant director, Hilary Appleby. The nursing staff led by...
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The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
In this gentle story set in the city of Muscat in Oman, young Aref is preparing to leave for the United States with his mother. He doesn't want to leave his country, his city and his friends and...
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They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
They Called Us Enemy is the graphic memoir for actor/author/activist George Takei who along with his family endured imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.George and his younger...
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March Book 2 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
"By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of God and democracy."...
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Written In Stone by Rosanne Parry
Written In Stone is the story of thirteen-year-old Pearl Carver, a member of the Makah tribe. The story begins in 1999 with eighty-nine-year-old Pearl walking to the beach with her...
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Blue. A History Of The Color As Deep As The Sea And As Wide As The Sky by...
Blue explores the history of the colour blue asking where the colour came from and describing how the colour we know today came to be.The earliest known record of the colour blue comes from the...
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The Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye
In The Turtle of Michigan, Shihab Nye continues the story she began in the first novel about Aref and his parents who are moving to America to study.The story picks up where The Turtle of Oman left...
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Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace With Lions by Richard Turere and...
When Richard Tuere was a nine-year-old boy guarding his father's cows, his biggest fear was the lions lurking in the nearby grass, waiting to grab an animal. Richard's family's farm bordered the south...
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