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• Black Star

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Charley’s dreams of becoming the first pro woman baseball player are challenged when she and her friends decide they will play ball on the white side of town. MS

• One Step Forward

  Atkins, Marcie Flinchum

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  Matilda Young’s activism in 1917 leads her to protest at the White House for women’s suffrage, and then to jail, where she writes about the loneliness and violence she suffers for her cause. MS

• The Lamplighter

  Bell, Crystal J., 1988-

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  After her father’s untimely death, Temperance takes his job as the town’s lamplighter, keeping lamps lit in the dark foggy nights even as girls in the town disappear. MS

• Westfallen

  Brashares, Ann

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  Three young teens in 1944 communicate via radio with three young teens in 2023. When the 1944 kids prevent a fire, the 2023 kids lose a friend, and when the 2023 kids tell the 1944 kids about D-Day, they wake up in Nazi America. MS

• Under the Same Stars

  Bray, Libba

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  Three teens separated by generations unveil the mysterious disappearance of two girls in Nazi Germany.

• To the Bone

  Bruzas, Alena

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  Ellis’s life as an indentured servant in 1609 Jamestown is lonely and difficult, but as winter sets in and the colonists begin dying, her main goal is to survive.

• Trajectory

  Gordon, Cambria

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  In the face of sexism and racism, Eleanor makes use of her hidden math skills to help the military design a secret weapon in World War II.

• The Brightwood Code

  Hesse, Monica

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  After making a mistake that may have cost soldiers their lives, Edda is haunted by her secret job in World War I, so when a caller to her switchboard reveals Edda's guilt, she must hunt down her tormentor.

• Adventures of Mary Jane

  Jahren, Hope

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  Before she meets Huck Finn, Mary Jane has her own adventures on the Mississippi, facing swindlers, con men, angry mobs, and deadly illness.

• Code Name Kingfisher

  Kessler, Liz

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  Jewish sisters Mila and Hannie pose as Christians in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, but Hannie’s insistence on helping other Jewish children escape the country threatens what little safety they have. MS

• A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

  Lai, Yi Shun

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  Clara lies about her age and citizenship in order to join a British expedition to the South Pole in 1914, but when their ship is stuck in the ice, her fight for women’s rights must take a back seat to survival.

• Kill Her Twice

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  In 1930s Los Angeles, May, Gemma, and Peony suspect Chinatown star Lulu Wong’s death was murder and set out to find the killer themselves, revealing a deeper conspiracy. MS

• The Red Car to Hollywood

  Liu, Jennie, 1971-

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  When Ruby Chan befriends rising actor Anna May Wong, she begins to challenge her father’s beliefs about arranged marriage and women’s independence.

• Everything Is Poison

  McCullough, Joy

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  Carmela aspires to join the staff of her mother’s apothecary in 17th century Rome, hoping to prove that they aren’t witches but healers.

• Eyes Open

  Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956-

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  Despite her father’s objections and the oppressive rules of the nuns at her school, budding poet Sónia resists the Portuguese regime publicly and clings to her artist boyfriend, Ze Miguel, even after he is imprisoned.

• Bridge Across the Sky

  Ng, Freeman

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  Tai Go comes to San Francisco to join his father and uncle, but is detained on Angel Island, where he comes across a burgeoning resistance movement among other immigrants.

• Family Style

  Memories of An American From Vietnam

  Pham, Thien

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  Thien recounts his memories of immigrating to the United States from Vietnam in terms of the food he and his family sometimes struggle to find, but always enjoy. GN

• The Queen's Spade

  Raughley, Sarah

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  Ten years after she is captured by slavers and freed by the British Navy, Ina, now called Sarah, plots revenge against everyone in Britain, including Queen Victoria herself.

• Everything We Never Had

  Ribay, Randy

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  Enzo’s anxiety at the start of the pandemic only gets worse, but when his grandfather moves in and starts telling stories of his youth as a farm worker and labor organizer, Enzo finds the broad perspective helps him.

• The Bletchley Riddle

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  In 1940, Lizzie and her older brother Jakob are brought separately to Bletchley Park, where they work in secret with others to decode the Enigma Machines, which hold the codes and the secrets of the German military. MS