RECOMMENDEDREADS JFICTION:HISTORICALFICTION
JRANS, L
OneBig OpenSky
LesaClineRansome
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
JJOHN, A
TheLuminous LifeofLucy Landry
AnnaRose Johnson
Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.
JBEHA, R
AcrossSo ManySeas
RuthBehar
Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
JHEAD, S
Warrioronthe Mound
SandraD. Headen
In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whitesonly baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
Amilandthe After
Veera Hiranandani
In 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India after having to leave his home in Pakistan. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. To handle the uncertainty of his new life, Amil begin to tell his story through drawings meant for their mother, who died when they were just babies.
JSEPE, R
TheBletchley Riddle
RutaSepetys& SteveSheinkin
JKESS, L
LizKessler CodeName Kingfisher
A young girl learns of her grandmother and great-aunt's involvement in the Dutch Resistance during World War II in this heartbreaking story of family, history, resilience, and hope.
MindyNichols Wendell LightandAir JWEND, M
It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned--and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
JHOOD, S
A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, this middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance.
Lifeboat5
SusanHood
A World War II novel-in-verse about two girls who clung together when their evacuee ship was torpedoed, their lifeboat capsized, and they spent nineteen hours in the Atlantic Ocean, waiting for rescue.
TheFirstState ofBeing
ErinEntradaKelly
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelveyear-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
JMARS, K
TheLostYear
KatherineMarsh
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his greatgrandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
JPHAM, T
TheCricket War
A gripping story of a boy's escape from Communist Vietnam by boat in 1980, based on the author's own experience.
LoisLowry TheWindeby Puzzle JLOWR, L
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II, Khan weaves a breathtaking tale of suspense, compassion, and courage.
LucilleAbendanon TheSongbirdand theRambutanTree JABEN, L
After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and be free.