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In the Past: Historical fiction for teens
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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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Stones on a grave by Kathy KacerSecrets series. After a fire that destroyed the orphanage in which she grew up, Sara travels to Germany in hopes of finding traces of her mother.
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Small bones by Vicki GrantSecrets series. On the street after her orphanage burns down, sixteen-year-old Dot takes a job as a seamstress in Buckminster while she tries to uncover the mystery surrounding her birth-parents, which may be tied to the town's sordid past.
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A big dose of lucky by Marthe JocelynSecrets series. After a fire destroys the orphanage, Malou, a mixed-race orphan, finds herself determined to discover information on her parents.
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Shattered glass by Teresa TotenSecrets series. After a fire destroys the orphanage in which she grew up, Toni travels to Toronto to learn the truth about her mother and the burn scars she has no memory of getting.
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Innocent by Eric WaltersSecrets series. After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed, Betty finds a position as a maid in the Remington household and learns that her mother worked for the family before she was murdered.
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Paper hearts
by Meg Wiviott
This gorgeous novel in verse tells the true story of Fania and Zlatka, a tale of a friendship forged in deepest adversity. Paper Hearts follows them from their detention and entrance into Auschwitz to their eventual liberation at the hands of the Russians. It is respectful, elegant and heartbreaking—a graceful and powerful addition to Holocaust literature.
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Tangled webs by Lee BrossLiving a double life as both a male assistant to an abusive master and a notorious female blackmailer who collects secrets about the elite in 1725 London, Arista finds herself torn between an infamous thief who once saved her life and a mysterious young aristocrat.
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Temple boys by J. P. BuxtonA gritty reimagining of the world's most famous story, told from a street youth's viewpoint, follows the experiences of a group of teen vagrants in first-century Jerusalem who latch onto a magician they hope will launch a revolution.
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Black dove, white raven
by Elizabeth Wein
Adopted by his late stunt pilot mother's white partner after a devastating accident, Teo endures discrimination for his dark skin in 1930s America, a situation that is further complicated by his bond with his adoptive white sister.
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Mortal heart
by Robin LaFevers
The powerful conclusion to Robin LaFever's New York Times best-selling His Fair Assassins trilogy, Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
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Fools' gold
by Philippa Gregory
Traveling to Venice as part of their effort to expose a counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde acknowledge their growing feelings for one another before meeting an alchemist who believes he has successfully created a Philosopher's Stone. By the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Love by the morning star
by Laura L. Sullivan
Sent to a grand English country estate on the eve of World War II, Hannah, the half-Jewish daughter of a disgraced relative, and Anna, an ambitious working-class girl, are mixed up by the family, mistakenly putting Hannah to work in the kitchen and welcoming Anna as one of their own.
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Sekret
by Lindsay Smith
Taught by her father to hide her thoughts and control her emotions in order to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia, clairvoyant Yulia is captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy to help undermine the U.S. space program. A first novel.
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