Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to
death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants
to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia,
the capital of the new United States. But the waterfront is abuzz with
reports of disease. As the cemeteries
fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the
city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a
living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must
give way to something even more important -- the fight to stay alive.
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The Pox Party by MT Anderson
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank? To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after
day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why
simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit
and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As
Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how
can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne's diary
ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their
betrayal and into the Nazi death camps.
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The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her
prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a
school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French
revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
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In Darkness by Nick Lake
Willow by Tonya Hegamin
In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between
bondage and freedom, family and love. On one side of the Mason-Dixon
Line lives Willow, her master's favorite servant. She's
been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master
is good to her and fears the rebel slave runaways. On the other side of
the line is Cato, a black man, free born. It's his
personal mission to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can.
Willow's and Cato's lives are about to intersect, with life-changing
consequences for both of them.
The Extra by Kathryn Lasky
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a
chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination?
One ordinary afternoon, Lilo and her family are suddenly
picked up by Hitler's police and imprisoned as part of the "Gypsy
plague." Just when it seems certain that they will be headed to a labor
camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film
extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality. The
surroundings are glamorous, but Lilo and the other extras are barely
fed, closely guarded, and kept in a locked barn when not on the movie
set. And the charming Riefenstahl is always present, flaunting the power to
assign prisoners to life or death.
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Bird with the Heart of a Mountain by Barbara Mariconda
A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
For Cleo Berry, the people dying of the Spanish Influenza in cities like
New York and Philadelphia may as well be in another country--that's how
far away they feel from the safety of Portland, Oregon. And then cases
start being reported in the Pacific Northwest. The entire city is thrust into survival mode--and panic. When the Red
Cross pleads for volunteers, she can't ignore the call. As Cleo
struggles to navigate the world around her, she is surprised by how much
she finds herself caring about near-strangers. Strangers like Edmund, a
handsome medical student and war vet. Strangers who could be gone
tomorrow. And as the bodies begin to pile up, Cleo can't help but
wonder: when will her own luck run out?
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Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
Between Two Worlds by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid. But after the soldiers march the entire
population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is
separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: he sees the other children, weak from
hunger, malaria, or sheer exhaustion, dying before his eyes. He sees
prisoners marched to a nearby mango grove, never to return. And he
learns to be invisible to the sadistic Khmer Rouge, who can give or take
away life on a whim. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can
play an instrument. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he
volunteers. This decision will save his life, but it will pull him
into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And
just as the country is about to be liberated from the Khmer Rouge, Arn
is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier.
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants
more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get
out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an
investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her
conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie
is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine
underworld.
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. Until one night when
Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the
comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a
crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother
slowly make their way north, to a work camp
in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's
orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of
conditions. Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously-and at great
risk-documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make
their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still
alive.
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The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But
to the bullies at his school in Nazi era Berlin, it doesn't matter. Demoralized by relentless attacks on a heritage he
doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth to everyone
around him. So when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German national
hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons, Karl
sees it as the perfect chance to reinvent himself. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must
take on a new role: protector of his family. Karl longs to ask his new
mentor for help, but with Max's fame growing, he is forced to associate
with Hitler and other Nazi elites, leaving Karl to wonder where his
hero's sympathies truly lie.
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Fade by Robert Cormier
Flygirl by Sherri L Smith
Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black
didn't stop him from fulfilling his dreams. But her daddy's gone now,
and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her. When
America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the
WASP, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots--and Ida suddenly sees a way
to fly as well as do something significant to help her brother stationed
in the Pacific. But even the WASP won't accept her as a black woman,
forcing Ida Mae to make a difficult choice of pretending
to be white. Hiding one's racial
heritage, denying one's family, denying one's self is a heavy burden.
And while Ida Mae chases her dream, she must also decide who it is she
really wants to be.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. When
"Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a
chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a
spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice:
reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves
her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of
their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life,
confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make
it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the
enemy?
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Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA
pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent
to Ravensbruck, the notorious women's concentration camp. Trapped in
horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the
loyalty, bravery and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that
be enough to endure the fate that's in store for her?
