To the Past
Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Y FIC Anderson
A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen year old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Y FIC Bray
Nobody's Princess
by Esther Friesner
Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, Headstrong Helen, who will be called Queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure around the Mediterranean world.
Y PBK Friesner
Going Over
by Beth Kephart
In the early 1980's Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall -- Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.Y FIC Kephart
| In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West. |
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Y FIC Lee
Bound
by Donna Jo Napoli
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen year old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Y FIC Napoli
| In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. |
El río que nos divide
by Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
SP Y FIC Peck
| During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. |
The Hired Girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Joan Skraggs draws inspiration from the heroines in the books she loves to read and leaves her Pennsylvania farm to start a coveted new life as a hired girl in Baltimore during the summer of 1911. Skraggs records her journey in hr diary as she embraces her new life.
Y FIC Schlitz
| Joan Skraggs draws inspiration from the heroines in the books she loves to read and leaves her Pennsylvania farm to start a coveted new life as a hired girl in Baltimore during the summer of 1911. Skraggs records her journey in her diary as she embraces her new life. |
Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
Josie, the seventeen year old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Y FIC Sepetys
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Y FIC Zusak