Historical+Fiction

 //A Brief History of Montmaray // Montmaray, 1936: For Sophie FitzOsborne, who lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray, the politics of Europe seem very far away. But when a boat arrives with two German officers and leaves with only one, politics become very personal.
 * by Michelle Cooper **

//Lost // Sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld of Delancey Street is working at the Triangle Waist Company when she meets the newest employee, Harriet Abbott, a seemingly well-educated, upper-crust young woman with a big secret. Essie, harboring a few secrets of her own, is drawn to the mysterious new girl, but their friendship will be tested as both go to great lengths to conceal the painful truth about themselves--and as a series of disasters tests Essie's fortitude and compassion.
 * by Jacqueline Davies **

//Mare's War // Sisters Tali and Octavia want to spend their summer break relaxing with friends. Instead, their parents are forcing them to take a road trip with their sports-car-driving, pushup-bra-wearing Grandma Mare to a family reunion in Alabama. Luckily, Mare knows a thing or two about willful teens, having been one herself: at age sixteen, she ran away from home to join the Women's Army Corps during World War II. As Mare's story unfolds, Tali and Octavia discover their family history and heritage--and a lot about themselves as well.
 * by Tanita S. Davis **

//The Rock and the River // 1968: Racial tensions are escalating in cities across America, including fourteen-year-old Sam's hometown of Chicago. The struggle for racial equality has even divided Sam's own family--his father is a civil rights activist, but Sam's older brother, Stephen, a.k.a. Stick, has joined the Black Panthers. Sam respects his father, but as he sees an increasing number of violent acts perpetrated by whites against blacks, he begins to think that Stick has the right idea.
 * by Kekla Magoon **

//**Between Shades of Gray **// Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
 * by Ruta Sepetys **