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In the Past: Historical fiction for teens
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Blood red snow white by Marcus SedgwickLeaving his unhappy marriage in England to work as a journalist in Russia, Arthur Ransome finds himself at the center of the revolution and becomes dangerously entangled with Trotsky's personal secretary while reporting back to the British on Bolshevik activities.
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Girl in the blue coat by Monica HesseA grief-stricken procurer of black-market goods in World War II-era Amsterdam is compelled to help a desperate neighbor track down a missing Jewish teen who had been hiding from the Nazis.
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Worlds of ink and shadow : A Novel of the Bronts by Lena CoakleyBased on Bront juvenilia, a recreation of the early lives of siblings Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne finds them escaping from their constrained lives by inventing powerful stories and characters before questioning the risks of their fantasies in the wake of Branwell's deteriorating mental state.
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Passenger by Alexandra BrackenWhen a violin prodigy who has lost everything wakes up on a ship in another time period, a man who wants to escape a life of servitude is forced to confront his past while keeping his former captors from claiming a stolen object of untold value.
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My life before me
by Norah McClintock
After a fire at the orphanage in which she grew up, Cady travels to Toronto to become a newspaper reporter
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The farmerettes
by Gisela Tobien Sherman
In 1943 Ontario, six girls fresh out of high school live and work together on a farm as part of the Farm Service Force, taking the roles of the men who were fighting in the war abroad
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Salt to the sea : a novel by Ruta SepetysFrantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy.
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Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel SavitLeft alone when her intellectual father is arrested by the Germans during World War II, Anna, a child growing up in occupied Kraków, Poland, finds shelter with a talented illusionist who hides a sinister nature. A first novel.
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Front lines by Michael GrantA New York Times best-selling author unleashes an epic, genre-bending, transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.
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These shallow graves by Jennifer DonnellyA young woman in 19th-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide that she believes is more than meets the eye, but in order to uncover the truth, she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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The hired girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911
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