

The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman
Imani is ready to find her birth parents, but she doesn’t know how to tell her family. She loves her adoptive family, but she wants to...
libbyames
Jun 23, 2021


Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt
When Meryl Lee Kowalski’s best friend dies, life seems to stop. Meryl Lee can no longer go outside, because everything reminds her of...
libbyames
Apr 13, 2021


The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett
Theodora’s father, Richard Fox, is an American historian and treasure hunter. His travels take him around the world to exciting...
libbyames
Dec 1, 2020


The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
Jo Kuan is a Chinese American girl trying to scrape out a living in late 1800s Atlanta. During the day, Jo works as a lady’s maid in one...
Michael Ames
Jul 28, 2020


Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Josie Moraine, the daughter of a brothel prostitute, feels trapped by her parentage. She wants nothing more than to escape New Orleans...
Michael Ames
Jul 20, 2020


Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Samantha longs to move back to New York and work as a musician, but for a Chinese American girl in 1849 that dream seems impossible. ...
Michael Ames
May 5, 2020


The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Ana is the daughter of Republican supporters in post civil war Spain. She and her siblings try to stay invisible and earn a meager...
Michael Ames
Feb 24, 2020


An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker
Katherine enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabethan England until her father, Sir Richard Arundell, is killed for practicing Catholicism...
Michael Ames
Mar 23, 2019


Refugee by Alan Gratz
We are afraid of what we don’t understand. We also tend to vilify what makes us afraid. As refugees flee their various countries, many...
Michael Ames
Nov 9, 2018


A Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
After phosphorus contamination leaves her face severely disfigured, Evelyn has been scrambling to survive the streets of London. She...
Michael Ames
Oct 21, 2018
