Known for his intriguing political fiction, New York Time's bestselling author David Baldacci deviates slightly from his modern day suspense novels to bring you Wish You Well. Inspired by hi…
The Killing Sea is thrilling, scary, tragic, and hopeful. Richard Lewis truly has a gift for invoking intense empathy from his readers. Most young readers didn't know about or feel any concern fo…
Sometimes Sharon Shinn takes a bit of time to set up her stories, but The Safe-Keeper's Secret has you enveloped in her poetic writing as immediately as the beautiful story begins. Truths, secrets and…
Milo is a freshman in high school who isn't super noticeable--he's just part of the crowd. In an attempt to stand out, he's decided to run for class president, until the principal announces that there…
Based on extensive research, this novel chronicles the shirtwaist workers' strike of 1909 and 1910 and the devastating fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that occurred over 100 years ago, "t…
This book is on my local library’s list of most popular teen books. I can see why—it’s a lively story that addresses important issues without labeling them: racism, social inequality, and most of all,…
When nineteen-year-old Philip Marsham’s father is lost at sea, Phil turns to the only skill he has—sailing. He signs up as a seaman on the frigate the Rose of Sharon, but when pirates take over t…
Did you have to read excerpts Beowulf in school like I did? Did you also dutifully plow through the poem, not actually enjoying it?
My attitude toward Beowulf was transform…
Sixteen-year-old Lady Saren is so terrified of the man her father wants her to marry that she’d rather be walled up in a tower for seven years than marry him. When Khan Tegus, the man she loves, comes…
Author Lynne Reid Banks, who wrote Indian in the Cupboard, here turns her attention to ancient Rome and the gruesome entertainments at the Colosseum. She focuses on three main charac…
This novel begins when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo. The author keeps many of the details of the story as they are in our history books, but instead of the children …
Fifteen-year-old Cole Matthews is in trouble with the law again. This time he's really injured someone, and he may go to jail. Thinking he's running a good con, he asks instead to participate in Circl…
