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The Berlin Boxing Club by Rob SharenowIn 1936 Berlin, 14-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
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The Bird and the Blade by Megan BannenA slave with a secret past is forced to serve the exiled prince she loves as he risks his life in a desperate effort to forge a political marriage with a powerful and deadly princess.
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Burn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaDuring the summer of 1977 when New York City is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam, seventeen-year-old Nora must also face her family's financial woes, her father's absence, and her brother's growing violence.
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Dreamland Burning by Jennifer LathamAlternating chapters explore how race relations have changed in the past century, as Rowan Chase investigates a murder committed during the Tulsa race riot in 1921.
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The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball by Dori Jones YangSent to New England in the 1870s as a part of a Chinese educational mission, Leon falls in love with baseball, even though he is forbidden to play, and learns more about America with the help of his host father, who has recently lost his own son in an accident.
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Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica HesseHanneke, a procurer of black-market goods in 1943 Nazi-occupied 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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The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle BarkerLife in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it's as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy BrashearIn 1984, while grappling with her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage to an African-American man, sixteen-year-old Laura wins a walk-on role in the nuclear holocaust movie being filmed in her Arkansas town, but when the scripted nuclear explosion occurs, nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not. Inspired by a real event.
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.Inventing Victoria by Tonya BoldenEssie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.
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The Lie Tree by Frances HardingeOn an island off the south coast of Victorian England, Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
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Mapping the Bones by Jane YolenIn 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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Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn AndersonIn the months before her one-way trip to Mars, Adri Ortiz is sent to Wichita to live with a elderly cousin and finds herself fixating on where she came from and the stories of two women who lived more than a hundred years earlier.
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My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandA fantastical, comedic romance adventure inspired by the true story of Lady Jane Grey follows the experiences of a 16-year-old noblewoman who, on the eve of her marriage to a stranger, is swept up in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.
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My Name is Victoria by Lucy WorsleyA dramatic reimagining of the childhood of Queen Victoria is told from the perspective of her discreet confidante, Miss V, who struggles with an advisor's harsh system governing the confined and increasingly unhappy young Victoria's safety and behavior.
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The Night Diary by Veera HiranandaniShy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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Orphan Monster Spy by Matt KilleenAfter her mother is shot at a checkpoint, Sarah, a Jewish teenager, agrees to help the resistance by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to the blueprints of a bomb that could destroy Western Europe.
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Outrun the Moon by Stacey LeeOn the eve of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive.
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The Passion of Dolssa: A Novel by Julie BerryRescuing a mystic healer who is being violently pursued by a rogue monk in thirteenth-century Provensa, scrappy matchmaker Botille is challenged to protect the entire village against the monks' crusade to burn heretics.
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The Red Ribbon by L. J. AdlingtonA 14-year-old Nazi concentration camp prisoner is forced to work in a group of emaciated seamstresses, including a courageous new friend, sewing couture dresses for female SS officers and the wives of their overseers, who threaten their lives over any imperfection.
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What the Night Sings: A Novel by Vesper StamperLiberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
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X: A Novel by Ilyasah ShabazzCo-written by the best-selling author of Malcolm Little and daughter of Malcolm X, a novel based her father's formative years describes his father's murder, his mother's imprisonment and his challenging effort to pursue an education in law.
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride, 1961 by Larry Dane BrimnerDocuments the heroic 1961 campaign of the civil rights activists known as the "Freedom Riders," describing their peaceful protests to raise awareness about unconstitutional segregation and the increasing violence they endured as they traveled south.
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Victoria: Portrait of a Queen by Catherine ReefA sumptuously illustrated portrait of the highly influential monarch describes how Victoria became queen of England at the age of 18 and ruled for 63 years in the face of royal scandal, corruption, assassination attempts and other challenges.
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Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale by Nathan HaleDesigned for particular appeal to young Hamilton fans, a lively introduction to the French nobleman who helped save the American Revolution traces his rise from an orphan to a major contributor to history.
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Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen YangCollects parallel stories, inspired by visions of Chinese gods, Little Bao recruites an army to fight for China against Western opressers; Vibinia, an unwanted fourth child, finds her first true home with Christian missionaries.
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art SpiegelmanThe author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
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Vinland Saga. Book 1 by Makoto YukimuraAfter growing up listening to the tales of the great Leif Ericson, young Thorfinn is captured and raised to be a warrior by the raiders who killed his family, but he never gives up on his goal of getting revenge on the band's leader, Askeladd.
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by David PolonskyAuthorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, a first graphic adaptation of the young holocaust diarist's poignant story includes extensive quotations from the definitive edition and faithfully conveys the immediacy and spirit of Frank's experiences in hiding.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Fred FordhamThe explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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March. Book One by John LewisA first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
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