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Where the heart should be
by Sarah Crossan
In 1846 Ireland, where starvation abounds, 16-year-old Nell, a poor Irish scullery maid, falls in love with a British heir, a romance Nell tries to keep hidden and her family together and alive.
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Ida, in love and in trouble / : The Poetry Exchange Anthology
by Veronica Chambers
After the Civil War, Ida B. Wells, the first child of newly freed parents, tries to make friends in a society that has no place for a woman who speaks her own mind?—?and find a love that will let her be the woman she dreams of becoming.
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Song of freedom, song of dreams : a novel in verse
by Shari Green
"Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the BerlinWall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a story of hope, courage, romance, and the power of music not only to change lives, but to save them"
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Yours from the tower
by Sally Nicholls
"In 1896, three best friends—Tirzah, Sophia and Polly—who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era. "
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For Lamb
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
In 1930s Jackson, Mississippi, quiet, studious and naïve girl Lamb tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl, which sets in motion a series of events that end in tragedy.
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Buffalo flats
by Martine Leavitt
In the Northwest Territories of Canada during the late 1880s, 17-year-old Rebecca Leavitt must overcome the never-ending challenges of pioneer life in her Latter-day Saints community as she works towards owning her own land, calling upon her family, faith and friendships to see her through.
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The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis
Inspired by the real-life story of C.R. Patterson and his family, this sweeping novel is centered around the Davenports, one of the few Black families of immense wealth, and follows four determined and passionate young Black women who discover the courage to take charge of their lives—and love.
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Torch
by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"
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Stateless
by Elizabeth Wein
Chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people in 1937, Stella North is the only participating female pilot, and, while constantly having to prove herself as a worthy competitor, experiences turbulence when someone resorts to sabotage to get ahead of the game.
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One last shot : a story of wartime photographer Gerda Taro
by Kip Wilson
"Sent to Paris after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda, Gerda Taro teams up with a fellow photographer to take pictures of military conflict and sell them at a high price but soon loses sight of her own safety.
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Great or nothing
by Joy McCullough
This reimagining of Little Women set in 1942 is told from each March sister's point of view as, after Beth's death and under the strain of their grief, they each go their own way as they become embroiled in WWII.
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The peach rebellion
by Wendelin Van Draanen
In this historical tale of friendship, family and the power of sisterhood, three very different girls from varying social stratums find common ground as they each make a promise to not just accept things as they are anymore.
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Breaking time
by Sasha Alsberg
After learning that she is the last Pillar of Time—an anchor point in the timeline of the world and a hiding place for a rogue goddess's magic—Klara must trust Callum, her self-appointed protector, to survive the darkness threatening to engulf them both. 65,000 first printing.
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Rust in the root
by Justina Ireland
It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage's license and becoming something more than a rootworker. But four months later, she's got little to show for it other than an empty pocket and broken dreams. With nowhere else to turn, Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane's Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the Dynamism so that Mechomancy can thrive. There she meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysterious past, who reluctantly takes Laura on as an apprentice. As they're sent off on their first mission together into the heart of the country's oldest and most mysterious Blight, they discover the work of mages not encountered since the darkest period in America's past, when Black mages were killed for their power--work that could threaten Laura's and the Skylark's lives, and everything they've worked for.
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A million to one
by Adiba Jaigirdar
United in one goal—stealing the Rubaiyat, a jewel-encrusted book aboard the RMS Titanic—four girls find careless mistakes, old grudges and new romance putting them, and their mission, in grave danger when tragedy strikes.
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One for all
by Lillie Lainoff
Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.
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The silent unseen
by Amanda McCrina
Making her way home in 1944 Poland after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Maria must find her missing brother with the help of a young Ukrainian prisoner with whom she shares a growing connection.
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Mirror girls
by Kelly McWilliams
Reunited with her twin sister, who passes for white in the racially divided town of Eureka, Georgia, Charlie needs her help to put the hauntings of the past to rest and break their family's dangerous curse.
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Berliners
by Vesper Stamper
In 1961 Berlin, twins Rudi, a photographer, and Peter, an actor, live in different sectors of a divided Berlin after the sudden divorce of their parents, where they are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground.
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Ripped away
by Shirley Reva Vernick
Ignored yet again by his crush, Abe Pearlman wanders into Fortunes and Futures for a little diversion. The fortune teller reveals that Abe may be able to save someone's life. But before he can ask any questions, he's swept to the slums of Victorian London, where he finds that his crush, Mitzy Singer, has also been banished. Abe and Mitzy soon discover that they've been plunked down in the middle of the Jack the Ripper spree. To get back home, they'll have to work together to figure out how the fortune teller's prophecy is connected to one of history's most notorious criminal cases. They'll also have to survive the outpouring of hate toward Jewish refugees that the Ripper murders triggered. Ripped Away is based on real historical events, including the Ripper crimes, the inquests, and the accusations against immigrants.
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Black was the ink
by Michelle Coles
Despondent sixteen-year-old Malcolm finds new strength and courage as he is transported between his family's modern-day Mississippi farm and the life of his ancestor Cedric Johnson, a congressional aide in post-Civil War America.
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Your heart, my sky : love in a time of hunger
by Margarita Engle
Coming of age against a backdrop of Cuba's“Special Peacetime” severe economic depression, Liana is emboldened by starvation to skip a summer of forced farm labor and team up with a quiet boy and a mysterious dog to search for alternate food sources.
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Rebel daughter
by Lori Banov Kaufmann
A tale of family, love and resilience, set against the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, follows the experiences of a dutiful daughter who struggles to choose between a handsome but insensitive man and a Roman who is supposed to be her enemy.
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When the world was ours
by Liz Kessler
Torn apart by the historical events leading up to World War II, three friends from 1936 Vienna are scattered to different countries as darkness spreads throughout Europe, impacting their families and their bonds with each other.
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Luck of the Titanic
by Stacey Lee
Stowing away aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage when her British-Chinese heritage bars her from joining her twin in America, a young acrobat struggles to hide and then survive when the unthinkable happens.
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The perfect place to die
by Moore, Bryce
To find her sister Ruby, Zuretta arrives in Chicago and takes a job at the very same hotel where Ruby last worked, which pits her against one of the most infamous mass murderers in American history—and his custom-built death trap.
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So many beginnings : a Little Women remix
by Bethany C. Morrow
In this powerful retelling of the classic novel, four young Black sisters, coming of age during the American Civil War, face first love, health issues, heartbreak and new horizons.
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Angel of Greenwood
by Randi Pink
Angel and Isaiah share a hidden love for black literature, and now each other, when tragedy and triumph emerge during the Greenwood Massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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The Edelweiss pirates / : Teenage Rebels in Nazi Germany
by Dirk Reinhardt
Befriending Josef Gertach, who gives him his teenage diary to read, 16-year-old Daniel is drawn into a real-life thriller in which Josef documents his time with The Edelweiss Pirates who rebelled against Hitler's regime in both a fight for freedom and their lives.
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The awakening of Malcolm X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
A fictionalized account of Malcolm X's adolescent years in prison, written by his daughter and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award-winning author, depicts Malcolm Little's struggles with race, politics, religion and justice before his emergence as a civil rights leader.
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Call me Athena : girl from Detroit : a novel in verse
by Colby Cedar Smith
Written from the perspective of three very different narrators, this enchanting novel in verse follows Mary, the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, as she struggles for independence, equality and identity.
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We are not free
by Traci Chee
Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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This light between us : a novel of World War II
by Andrew Xia Fukuda
Two unlikely pen pals, a Japanese-American boy and a Jewish-French girl, exchange letters tracking their dreams, growing friendship and wrenching encounters with the realities of World War II. By the award-winning author of Crossing.
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Open fire
by Amber Lough
In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war.
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Kent State
by Deborah Wiles
The author of the National Book Award finalist Each Little Bird That Sings presents a compelling account of the tragic May 1970 shooting of four students who were protesting against the Vietnam War before they were fired upon by American National Guardsmen.
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A sky painted gold
by Laura Wood
A coming-of-age historical romance follows the experiences of a small-town dreamer who struggles to stay true to herself and her heart when she is swept into the glittering world of 1929 high society by a new friend and the latter's enigmatic brother.
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Inventing Victoria
by Tonya Bolden
Trapped between the life she dreams of and the reality of post-Reconstruction Savannah, a young black woman with a troubled past is made over by a wealthy, cultured sponsor who opens doors to the upper echelons of black society in late 19th-century Washington, D.C. By the award-winning author of Maritcha.
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Ziggy, Stardust & me
by James Brandon
The co-founder of the I AM Love Campaign and star of Corpus Christi follows the wrenching experiences of two teen boys who fall in love against a backdrop of 1970s discrimination.
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The language of fire : Joan of Arc reimagined
by Stephanie Hemphill
"A lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation."
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The fountains of silence : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
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White Rose
by Kip Wilson
A timely novel based on true events finds Sophie Scholl, a young German college student, teaming up with her brother and his fellow soldiers to form a group that writes and distributes anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime.
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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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Among the red stars
by Gwen C Katz
Determined to help the effort, female Russian air pilot Valka signs up to join an all-female aviation group, but as the war intensifies she has to decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she calls home.
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Dreamland burning
by Jennifer Latham
A dual-narrated tale by the author of Scarlett Undercover explores how race relations have changed in the past century through the story of 17-year-old Rowan, who investigates a century-old murder committed during the race riots of 1921 Tulsa.
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The memory of things
by Gae Polisner
Racing to safety after witnessing the first Twin Tower collapse on September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle, having been separated from his family, impulsively brings home a traumatized girl who has forgotten who she is.
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The smell of other people's houses
by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Intertwined stories of love, tragedy, wild luck and salvation on Alaska's wild frontier in the 1970s follows the experiences of four very different teens whose lives become entangled and who try to save each other, sometimes succeeding when they least expect it.
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Projekt 1065
by Alan Gratz
Living with his family in Berlin, Michael O'Shaunessey, the son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, works as a spy like his parents and participates in the horrific activities of the Hitler Youth in order to gain inside information for the British Secret Service. By the award-winning author of Samurai Shortstop.
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Anastasia and her sisters
by Carolyn Meyer
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
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Half in love with death
by Emily Ross
When fifteen-year-old Caroline's older sister Jess disappears, Caroline gets together with Jess's boyfriend, Tony, to try to find her but Tony may not be as wonderful as he seems in this story inspired by the Pied Piper murders in Tucson, Arizona, in the1960s.
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically 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.
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Black dove, white raven
by Elizabeth Wein
Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
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The lions of Little Rock
by Kristin Levine
In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Fire in the streets
by Kekla Magoon
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie, against everyone's wishes, longs to join the Black Panthers, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
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Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
When her former owner breaks his promise to set her free and ends up sending her to live with a cruel loyalist family at the start of the Revolutionary War, Isabel is heartbroken and so becomes determined to do whatever is necessary to win her freedom, including spying on her family to help the rebels win the war.
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable
by John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Reader's Guide available.
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Lizard in a zoot suit
by Marco Finnegan
In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harrassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
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Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.
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Superman smashes the Klan : the graphic novel
by Gene Luen Yang
When her family is targeted by the KKK after moving from Chinatown to 1946 Downtown Metropolis, misfit Roberta Lee uses her keen skills of observation to help Superman thwart a string of terrorist attacks.
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