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[2010]., Juvenile, 061500, Playaway Call No: [Fic] Edition: Unabridged. Genre: Historical fiction, Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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By Masood, Syed2022., Anchor Books Call No: Historical Fic Masood Edition: First Anchor Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Anvar Faris, a young man originally from Pakistan, and Safwa, a young woman from Iraq, are both Muslims who don't feel much connection to their faith. When both of them move the United States, their feelings of uncertainty grow, and when they cross paths in the mid-2010s, their lives will never be the same.
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2022., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Historical Fic Charles Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1984 New Jersey, fifteen-year-old Beatriz Mendez dreams of becoming a professional dancer like her idol Debbie Allen. Then her gang-leader brother is murdered and the fierce Beatriz is forced to step into her brother's shoes to run the gang at a time when cocaine was the dominant force running the neighborhood. Her dreams of dancing are all but gone, and her mother, grieving over the loss of her son, has turned into a shell of her former self. Then a classmate asks Beatriz to join him in a dance competition and her passion for dance once again sneaks in.
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[2019]., Ballantine Books Call No: Historical FIC Wingate Genre: Historical Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiance, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis,a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong"--
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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BYFR Call No: Historical Fic Hammonds Reed Edition: First Simon & Schuster BYFR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F ARN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now, seven years later, being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls in love and starts pulling away from her, Rieke wonders if there's anything in her life she can count on-and, if so, if she has the power to hold on to it.Then-war breaks out in Europe.First the Russians, then the Germans, invade Czernowitz. Almost overnight, Rieke and Astra's world changes, and every day becomes a struggle: to keep their grandfather's business, to keep their home, to keep their lives. Rieke has long known that she exists in a world defined by those who have power and those who do not, and as those powers close in around her, she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her-and if that's a choice she will even have the chance to make. Based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania, award-winning author Elana K. Arnold weaves an unforgettable tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century-and one young woman's will to survive them.
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-- 1619 Project2021., Juvenile, Kokila Call No: [E] Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Frustrated with a class assignment asking students to trace their roots to their ancestral homes, a young black girl explains to her family that she couldn't complete the assignment because she could only trace her family back three generations in the United States. Her grandmother gathers her and other family members around to tell them about their ancestral home on the West African plains, before slavery, and where their people thrived. She also explains how those who were captured for slavery, found ways to survive and carry on through the generations in spite of their terrible hardships and pain.
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-- 1619 Project2021., Juvenile, Kokila Call No: LS Han Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Frustrated with a class assignment asking students to trace their roots to their ancestral homes, a young black girl explains to her family that she couldn't complete the assignment because she could only trace her family back three generations in the United States. Her grandmother gathers her and other family members around to tell them about their ancestral home on the West African plains, before slavery, and where their people thrived. She also explains how those who were captured for slavery, found ways to survive and carry on through the generations in spite of their terrible hardships and pain.
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By Medina, Meg2018., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical FIC Medina Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: During the summer of 1977, the city of New York seemed to be in turmoil. Arson was on the rise, a serial killer known as the Son of Sam was prowling the streets murdering innocent young couples, and seventeen-year-old Nora Lopez was dealing with her own personal pain which included a derelict father and a drug-dealing, abusive brother. Through her pain, fear, and shame, Nora traverses through that summer, hoping for love, dreaming of her future, and trying to come out of the darkness on the other side.
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[2009]., Plume Call No: Historical FIC Benioff Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two very different young men who wait for execution in a Leningrad prison are freed to carry out a difficult task which is to find a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. They must return from their quest in five days which is nearly impossible due to the brutal conflict of war all around them.
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2018., Simon & Schuster Call No: HISTORICAL F THO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a small Midwestern college town, three generations of the Wise family---Evelyn, Laura, and Grace---hunt for contentment in the years between World War II and the present day.
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2020., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: NL REALISTIC F FOR Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman--and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world--of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces like wildfires and tornadoes--intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home.
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2021., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Fantasy Fic Corthron Edition: First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the Jim Crow South, Evalene Deschamps tries to look after her two little sisters, succeed in school, and help her mother, while also dealing with her burgeoning magical abilities. As she comes into her powers, a dark being has shaken loose and it will take all Evvie has to free herself from the demons of her past.
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Gibney Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile connecting America and Africa, and of how determined dreamers try to break free and gain control of their destiny.
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c2000, Doubleday Call No: 813 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Oprah's book clubSummary Note: Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her sister's farm, but when she her sister drowns in a mysterious accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she has merely brought them with her.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books Call No: FIC WOLK Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose their livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
