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• Your Heart, My Sky

  Love in a Time of Hunger

  Engle, Margarita

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• The Good Fight

  [Graphic Novel]

  Staunton, Ted, 1956-

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• All He Knew

  Frost, Helen, 1949-

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• Betty Before X

  Shabazz, Ilyasah

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  Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

• The Night Diary

  Hiranandani, Veera

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  Shy 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Boys

  Rosenblatt, Darcey

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  It's 1982, and twelve-year-old Reza has no interest in joining Iran's war effort. But in the wake of a tragedy and at his mother's urging, he decides to enlist, assured by the authorities that he will achieve paradise should he die in service to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Auma's Long Run

  Odhiambo, Eucabeth A.,

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  When AIDS devastates thirteen-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home.

• My Brigadista Year

  Paterson, Katherine,

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  When Lora joins Castro's literacy campaign, she travels into the impoverished countryside to teach her fellow Cuban's to read and write, while sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries in the hills.

• The Journey of Little Charlie

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Long Walk to Water

  a Novel

  Park, Linda Sue

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  When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hattie Big Sky

  Larson, Kirby

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  For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove herself up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Player King

  Avi, 1937-

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  In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.

• The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

  Berry, Julie, 1974-

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  Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school

• Egg & Spoon

  a Novel

  Maguire, Gregory

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  Elena lives in the poor Russian countryside. Her father is dead and her brothers have been forced into the Tsar's army. Her mother is dying, and there is no food. But then a train arrives carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midwife's Apprentice

  Cushman, Karen

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  In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

• The Hired Girl

  Schlitz, Laura Amy

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  Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wings of War

  Wilson, John, 1951 August 2-

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  A Canadian boy learns to fly from his uncle, and then decides to join the English Royal Flying Corps as a fighter pilot in World War I.

• Whistling in the Dark

  Hughes, Shirley, 1927-

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  Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Shadow of the Sun

  O'Brien, Anne Sibley

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  Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, an food aide worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caminar

  Brown, Skila,

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  Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man…Read moreRead more of this annotation