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Cover of Of Better Blood
by Susan Moger
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics—the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding—has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded,"...
Cover of An Unlikely Friendship

An Unlikely Friendship

A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

by Ann Rinaldi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

A “fascinating” novel that brings the relationship between the First Lady and an African American seamstress to life (VOYA).   On the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, wants desperately to speak to her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley....
Cover of Weggesperrt
by Grit Poppe, Beatrix Seiler
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2012

Niemals aufgeben! Flucht aus dem Erziehungsheim. DDR 1988: Anjas Mutter stellt einen Ausreiseantrag aus der DDR und wird von der Stasi verhaftet. Die 14-jährige kommt in einen Jugendwerkhof, eine Einrichtung der Jugendhilfe. Geschockt von der Willkür der Erzieher, der Gewalt und dem Drill, will...
Cover of The Tree Shepherd's Daughter
by Gillian Summers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010

When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and...
Cover of And Then the Sky Exploded
by David A. Poulsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016

A ninth-grader learns about the Hibakusha (Japanese atomic-bomb survivors), their struggles, and his own grandfather's role in them A compelling look at the horror of war through the eyes of those who lived it and those who haven’t Story is seen through the eyes of a group of North American teenagers...
Cover of Run Like Jäger
by Karen Bass
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

Canadian exchange student Kurt Schreiber spends a year in Germany, learning more than he bargained for about his grandfather's life in Hitler's army. Kurt’s opa – grandfather – has never been willing to talk about his time as a German soldier, so Kurt has some deep concerns about what...
Cover of The Extra
by Kathryn Lasky
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker a chance at life — or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? One ordinary afternoon, fifeen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler’s police and imprisoned as part of the "Gypsy plague."...
Cover of Uncrashable Dakota
by Andy Marino
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

In 1862, Union army infantryman Samuel Dakota changed history when he spilled a bottle of pilfered moonshine in the Virginia dirt and stumbled upon the biochemical secret of flight. Not only did the Civil War come to a much quicker close, but Dakota Aeronautics was born. Now, in Andy Marino's...
Cover of Rebel Girls
by Elizabeth Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019

In 1992 Baton Rouge, a single rumor has the power to change a girl’s life forever. When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys—or anyone, for that matter. Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of...
Cover of Lilly Marlene
by Anne Charlotte Voorhoeve
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 24, 2013

Lilly heeft haar rugzak gepakt. Na de dood van haar moeder heeft ze niemand meer in Hamburg om voor te blijven. Tante Lena is het doel, de enige familie die ze nog heeft. Maar in de DDR stuit ze op een groot familiegeheim... Een aangrijpend boek waarin liefde overwint, zelfs over grenzen heen.
Cover of Kascha
by Anne Charlotte Voorhoeve
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 19, 2015

‘Kascha’: een ijzersterke roman van Anne Voorhoeve over respect. Kascha heeft heimwee. Sinds ze met haar Sinti-familie naar een stad in Noord-Duitsland is verhuisd, stapelen de problemen zich op. Waarom mogen haar klasgenoten haar niet? Waarom storen de buren zich aan haar familie? En er zijn...
Cover of 21 juli
by Anne Charlotte Voorhoeve
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 31, 2012

21 juli 1944. Niets is meer zoals het was. Op slot Lautlitz hoort de 14-jarige Fritzi dat de Führer aan een moordaanslag is ontkomen. Ze kan niet geloven dat het haar eigen familie is, die dit plan heeft geïnitieerd. De SS laat zich niet onbetuigd en wil haar familie tot het laatste lid uitroeien....
Cover of De nacht dat alles brandde
by Linda Press Wulf
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 27, 2012

Na een pogrom in het Polen van 1920, zijn de 11-jarige Devorah en haar zusje de enige overlevenden uit hun dorp. Maar dan wordt haar het dierbaarste afgenomen wat ze nog heeft. Een waargebeurd en hartverscheurend verhaal. Na een liefdevolle jeugd in Polen wordt de wereld van de joodse Devorah verwoest....
Cover of War of the Eagles
by Eric Walters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998

During WWII, Jed’s English father serves as a fighter pilot overseas, while Jed and his mother move back to her Tsimshian community on Canada's west coast. When the military sets up a naval base in town, Jed is hired to help out, honored it seems, for both his father's bravery and his own native...
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