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Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Publication date: January 10 2012
Hardcover: 224 pages
We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family. Deza is the smartest girl [...]
Author: Jane Yolen
Genre: Historical, Fairy Tale, Mystery, Young Adult
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: August 1992 (original)
Paperback: 239 pages (reprint)
A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.”
An American Library Association “100 Best Books for Teens”
An American Library Association “Best Books [...]
Author: Debby Dahl Edwardson
Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books
Publication date: October 28 2011
Hardcover: 248 pages
My name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding the shore . . . Luke knows his Iñupiaq [...]
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In previous years, the Feats of Strength were a challenge in which we dared each other to read a book that we knew was so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as to put it in another galaxy altogether. This year, we [...]
Title: The Woman in Black
Author: Susan Hill
Genre: Horror, Gothic, Historical
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday (originally published by Hamish Hamilton, UK)
Publication Date: September 2011 (originally October 1983)
Paperback: 176 pages
A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small [...]
Author: Madeline Miller
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Greek Mythology, LGBT
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: September 5 2011
Hardcover: 368 pages
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted [...]
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic)
Publication Date: August 2011
Hardcover: 384 pages
“The Luxe” meets the ancient world in the extraordinary story of Cleopatra’s daughter.
Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her [...]
Author: Matthew J. Kirby
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication date: October 11 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Matthew J. Kirby, author of The Clockwork Three, deftly weaves a brand-new tale with chilling cleverness and subtle suspense that will leave readers racing breathlessly to the [...]
Author: Jón Kalman Stefánsson (translated by Philip Roughton)
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: September 2011 (first edition: 2010)
Paperback: 240 pages
In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A [...]
Title: Revolver
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Genre: Thriller, Historical, Young Adult
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books / Square Fish
Publication date: July 16th 2009 / September 27, 2011
Paperback: 224 pages
1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for [...]
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