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| Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
YA AVI |
| Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. |
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| London Calling |
Bloor, Edward |
YA BLOOR |
| Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940. |
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| Hidden voices |
Collins, Pat Lowery |
YA COLLINS |
| Anetta, Rosalba, and Luisa, find their lives taking unexpected paths while growing up in eighteenth century Venice at the orphanage Ospedale della Pieta, where concerts are given to support the orphanage as well as expose the girls to potential suitors. |
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| A Brief History of Montmaray |
Cooper, Michelle |
YA COOPER |
| On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War. |
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| Uprising |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
YA HADDIX |
| In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes. |
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| Hazel |
Hearn, Julie |
YA HEARN |
| Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets. |
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| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
Kelly, Jacqueline |
J KELLY |
| In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. |
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| Lady Macbeth's Daughter |
Klein, Lisa |
YA KLEIN |
| In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
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| Bloodline |
Moran, Katy |
YA MORAN |
| While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties. |
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| Leigh Ann's Civil War |
Rinaldi, Ann |
YA RINALDI |
| Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes. |
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| Elephant Run |
Smith, Roland |
YA SMITH |
| Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. |
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| Crusade |
Wilson, John |
YA WILSON |
| When the Crusaders attack the city of Béziers in 1209, two boys from different backgrounds barely escape from the mayhem with their lives and they flee while plotting to uncover a secret that could change the world. |
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