

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
This is my new favorite recommendation for tween boys because it has it all--action, mystery, intrigue, spies, grave robbing and best of...
Jul 19, 2017


May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
Mavis, called May B, lives with her family in a sod house on the Kansas prairie. When times get hard, May’s parents send her to a...
Jul 17, 2017


Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick
Zane Dupree’s father died before he was born. He didn’t know he had a great-grandmother in New Orleans, but now he and his dog Bandit are...
Jul 14, 2017


Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
Lizzie Kennedy wants to be a doctor like her father, but in San Francisco in 1900 Lizzie is stuck at Miss Barstow's finishing school for...
Jul 6, 2017


Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
Little Hawk is eleven-years-old when his father takes him into the winter wilderness to survive for three months all alone. Supplied with...
Dec 22, 2013


Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune began life as At-mun, prince of the At-mun-shi tribe in Africa, but at fifteen he was captured and sold into slavery. After...
Nov 5, 2013


Annie Between the States by L.M. Elliott
Annie Sinclair has enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life on her family's estate in Virginia, but when the Civil War begins her home is...
Nov 5, 2013


Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook enjoys the bustle and energy of Philadelphia in 1763. The Nation's capital is filled with people and Mattie...
Mar 14, 2012


Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Bella, Yetta, and Jane are three very different girls, but they are each fighting for freedom. Bella, newly arrived from Italy, is...
Mar 4, 2012