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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"--
2) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
"Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...
Author
Series
Anya volume 1
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Description
In 1992, a young boy whose father is away at war discovers, from their flower stall, the power of beauty and kindness in the wake of the bombing of Sarajevo.
9) Northwind
Author
Formats
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
506 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
The stakes are higher than ever when the Raven sets Christopher up for a horrible crime, leading him to be locked away in London’s most notorious prison. This terrible act is the first in a series of games the Raven plans to play with Christopher…games that are as dangerous as they are challenging.
11) Lines of courage
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
12) Uprising
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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