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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
3) Gingersnap
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
4) Ish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
6) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
9) Nest
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
10) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Molly and her cousin drive cross-country in an old bus, navigating protests, parades, and concerts to notify her conscientious objector brother that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War.
11) A faraway island
Author
Series
Steiner sisters quartet volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
12) Deep sea
Author
Series
Steiner sisters quartet volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite theirmutual love.
13) Family of liars
Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
15) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
16) The Davenports
Author
Series
The Davenports (Krystal Marquis) volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
17) The ninth hour
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
On a dim winter afternoon in Catholic Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2020]
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgaorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyasl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto(and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart ... It seems they have little in common--until Cameron Chadwick appears on the island"--
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