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In the Past: Historical fiction for teens
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Olivia Twist : A Dark Past, a Glittering Future, and the World Between Them by Lorie LangdonOlivia Brownlow, born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, is as tough and cunning as they come. Taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, she's now a debutante in high society. But she can't forget the teeming slums where children still scrabble to survive. Jack MacCarron, once known as the Artful Dodger, became the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. He and his "aunt" are robbing society blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia, he wonders why a society girl is helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves--and why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew?
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Hamilton and Peggy! : A Revolutionary Friendship by L. M. ElliottThe best-selling author of Between the States presents a richly detailed historical novel inspired by the relationship between Alexander Hamilton and Peggy Schuyler, describing how the latter was challenged by the realities of war to distinguish herself from her remarkable sisters and make her own mark on history.
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Mapping the bones
by Jane Yolen
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other
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Blood and sand by C. V WykRecasting the legendary character of Spartacus as a fierce female warrior, a high-action story about a 17-year-old princess and a handsome gladiator who dared to challenge the Roman Republic depicts their precarious bond and role it played in bringing about a history-shaping rebellion.
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What the Night Sings by Vesper StamperLushly illustrated with evocative imagery, a poignant tale about a young Holocaust survivor finds her struggling to survive, rebuild and come to terms with the losses of her family and everything she knew after being liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for a fellow survivor.
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The librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio IturbeA tale based on true events follows the experiences of a teen prisoner in Auschwitz who risks her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
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Glow by Megan E BryantDiscovering a series of antique paintings containing hidden glowing images, a young thrift-store aficionado investigates their origins and discovers the haunting true story of a group of young women artists, the Radium Girls, who used dangerous radioactive paint to create the world's first glow-in-the-dark products.
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Making bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchA tale inspired by a lesser-known aspect of World War II describes how young Lida loses her parents and is torn from her sister, even though she is not Jewish, by Nazis who place her in a brutal work camp with other Ukrainian children to make bombs for the German army.
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Duels & deception
by Cindy Anstey
In 1800s London, a young heiress and her lawyer are caught up in a kidnapping plot to steal her fortune, but as their investigation delves deeper and their affections for each other grow, Lydia starts to wonder what she truly wants
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Beck
by Mal Peet
Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in early 20th-century Canada, 15-year-old Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
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Alex & Eliza : a love story
by Melissa De la Cruz
When Alex and Eliza meet one fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history
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Max by Sarah Cohen-ScaliRaised and taught to be a strict, perfect Aryan child under the ideologies of the Nazi Party, Max, a boy who was taken from his mother at birth, begins questioning these educational precepts in the wake of a loveless life and his friendship with a young Jewish boy, in a U.S. release of an award-winning novel from France.
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