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Historical Fiction High School
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Stone mirrors : the sculpture and silence of Edmonia Lewis
by Jeannine Atkins
A historical portrait in verse by the author of Borrowed Names traces the life of half Native American, half African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, who in the years after the Civil War was denied an education because of false accusations before embarking on a successful career as a sculptor in Italy.
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The notorious Pagan Jones
by Nina Berry
Sent to a juvenile detention facility after driving drunk and killing her family, the once-great Paula Jones is offered release if she will star in a film in Berlin and agree to a court-appointed guardian, who doesnt seem to be what he claims.
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The boy at the top of the mountain
by John Boyne
Forced to leave Paris and move in with his aunt Beatrix in the wealthy Austrian home of Adolf Hitler, orphan Pierro is taken under Hitler's wing and thrust into circles of terror, secrets and betrayal. By the best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
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The game of Love and Death
by Martha Brockenbrough
Growing up a few blocks away from each other in 1920s Seattle, African-American teen Flora and white boy Henry forge a deep bond over their shared love of jazz music, unaware that their taboo relationship is being manipulated by eternal adversaries, Love and Death.
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Naked '76
by Kevin Brooks
Playing bass with one of London's wildest bands, punk artist Lili Garcia meets a fellow musician who is haunted by the life he left behind, a situation that prompts Lili to search for what she truly wants.
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Max
by Sarah Cohen-Scali
Raised 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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For love & honor
by Jody Hedlund
A noblewoman who hides a skin blemish that could cause to her to be branded a witch and a knight who must marry a wealthy woman to protect his family forge an alliance based on secrets that threaten their love and lives. By the author of An Uncertain Choice.
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Blood red snow white
by Marcus Sedgwick
Leaving 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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Three day summer
by Sarvenaz Tash
During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael Michaelson of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cora Fletcher, a volunteer in the medical tent who lives nearby, share incredible experiences, the greatest of which is meeting each other.
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Odd & true
by Cat Winters
A young girl disabled by childhood polio and growing up in the first decade of the 20th century wonders if the stories her older sister told her about their monster-slaying mother were true before her sister brings her on a journey to defeat a nightmarish beast using possibly inherited magic. By the author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds.
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Maid of the king's court
by Lucy Worsley
Hoping to revive his distressed family fortune, the Baron of Stone arranges the engagment of his twelve-year-old daughter, Eliza Rose Camperdowne, to the son of the Earl of Westmoreland.
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The last execution
by Jesper Wung-Sung
Based on the true story of the last execution in Denmark's history, this novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town in 1853: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death?
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The emperor of any place
by Tim Wynne-Jones
When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.
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