El Estanque del Mirlo (the Witch of Blackbird Pond)
by Elizabeth George Speare
The Story of the Samson
by Kathleen Benner Duble and Alexander Farquharson
Meet Josefina, an American Girl (American Girls Collection: Josefina 1824)
by Valerie Tripp
After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.
Of all the places in the world, Uri really loves to be at his grandparents' house. There he can stay up way past his bedtime and eat as many sweets from the chocolate box as he likes. There's only one forbidden place in that house: the third drawer in Grandpa's desk. This drawer is locked. No one ever opens it until one day when Uri finds the key to the third drawer. From that moment, nothing is ever the same. Grandpa's Third Drawer takes up the difficult challenge of discussing the Holocaust w...
"Shortly after Cass's big brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes pen pals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war"--
Smithsonian Historical Fiction (Smithsonian Historical Fiction)
by Veeda Bybee, Rebecca Rissman, Nikki Shannon Smith, and Brandon Terrell
Bob Tregonnis, the son of a Cornish fisherman, joins a sailing ship to America, but on the way the ship is taken by pirates and most of the crew slain. Bob is forced to join the pirate crew, but then notices their love of gambling. Being a good wood carver, Bob decides to trick the pirates, and makes some loaded dice, winning a fortune from them.
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston.
A gripping and page - turning young adult book about one of history's greatest women. The Queen of Scots is dead and they say I killed her. They lie! Just a girl to those around her, Elizabeth is now the Queen of England. She has outsmarted her enemies and risen above a lifetime of hurt and betrayal - a mother executed by her father, a beloved brother who died too young and an enemy sister whose death made her queen. Not knowing whom she can trust, Elizabeth is surrounded by men who give her com...