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Category: Historical Fiction

The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

January 19, 2021

Review by Louise Brecht

Louisa Adair didn’t know what Sergeant Lind was talking about. None of them did, not really. They’d only wanted to save lives, not hoard the machine that is the key target of a massive British Intelligence operative.
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Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee

December 8, 2020

Review by Lisa Matthewson

Did you think having to practice the piano was bad? Twelve-year-old Sora has to practice hiding her father in a hole in the ground. If she makes a mistake, he will be captured by the North Korean military. … More Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee

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Gold Rush Girl by Avi

September 22, 2020

Review by Micah Killjoy

Oh, to be a thirteen-year-old saving my brother from child traffickers on a foggy San Francisco day in 1849. Thanks to the novel Gold Rush Girl, I got to imagine living just such a life. … More Gold Rush Girl by Avi

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Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

March 10, 2020

Review by Jennifer Irvine

It’s Brooklyn in the late nineties, when rap music can be heard reverberating out of ghetto blasters everywhere. Singer Lauryn Hill reigns supreme, and Jay-Z and Mariah Carey are just getting started on their monster careers. … More Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

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My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker

March 3, 2020

Review by Louise Brecht

Seconds after this excerpt, Mutti is shot for the slip of her daughter’s tongue and Katja’s dress is splattered with her mother’s blood. The Soviet army that surges into Germany in the dying months of World War II displays little regard for its enemy’s people. … More My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker

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A Treason of Thorns by Laura E. Weymouth

August 20, 2019

Review by Kelsey Elizabeth Moorhouse

Ask seventeen-year-old Violet Sterling what she plans to be when she grows up, and she’ll give you an answer rehearsed from birth: she will be the Caretaker of her Great House, Burleigh, like her father was before her—until he died on the job, that is. … More A Treason of Thorns by Laura E. Weymouth

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The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

April 16, 2019

Review by Jennifer Irvine

Murder, kidnappings, mischief, and a large dollop of teenage angst overflow from The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious), the second book in the Truly Devious series. … More The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

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