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Juv Fiction CAO W Juv Paperback FORBES E HISTORICAL FICTION BRONZE AND SUNFLOWER JOHNNY TREMAIN Taken in by a poor family in a rural vil- After injuring his hand, a silversmith's ap- Suggested Reading List lage, Sunflower bonds with the family's prentice in Boston becomes a messenger *First in a Series only child, Bronze, who has not spoken for the Sons of Liberty in the days before since being traumatized by a terrible fire. the American Revolution. YA Fiction ANDERSON L Juv Fiction COATS J Juv Fiction FRANK S CHAINS* THE MANY REFLECTIONS OF ARMSTRONG & CHARLIE After being sold to a cruel couple in New MISS JANE DEMING During the pilot year of a Los Angeles York City, a slave named Isabel spies for Jane is excited to be part of an expedi- school system integration program, two the rebels during the Revolutionary War. tion to bring orphans and Civil War wid- sixth grade boys, one black and one white, become best friends. ows to Washington Territory. Juv Paperback AVI Juv Paperback CURTIS C Juv Fiction GRATZ A CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD* BUD, NOT BUDDY REFUGEE An orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth- Bud, a motherless boy living in Michigan Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Germa- century England flees his village and during the Great Depression, escapes a ny; Isabel, a Cuban girl in 1994; and meets a larger-than-life juggler who bad foster home and sets out in search of Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015, embark holds a dangerous secret. the man he believes to be his father. on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. Juv Fiction AVI Juv Fiction CUSHMAN K Juv Paperback HESSE K THE UNEXPECTED LIFE OF OLIVER THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE OUT OF THE DUST CROMWELL PITTS In medieval England, a nameless, home- In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie In 1724 England, Oliver embarks on a less girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered Jo relates the hardships of living on her journey from his seaside home in Mel- midwife. family's wheat farm in Oklahoma dur- ing the dust bowl years of the Depression. combe Regis to London. Juv Fiction BECKHORN S Juv Fiction DRAPER S Juv Graphic Novel HIDDEN THE WOLF’S BOY STELLA BY STARLIGHT HIDDEN Marked as tabat—the unlucky one—Kai When a burning cross set by the Klan A grandmother shares the story of her and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long causes panic and fear in 1932 North Car- experiences in WWII with her grandchild in winter together and learn what it takes olina, fifth-grader Stella must face preju- this graphic novel. to survive on their own. dice in her segregated town. Juv Fiction BRADLEY K Juv Paperback FLEISCHMAN S Juv Fiction HOLM J THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE* BY THE GREAT HORN SPOON TURTLE IN PARADISE* A young disabled girl and her brother are When Jack's aunt is forced to sell her In 1935, when her mother gets a new job, evacuated away from London and their beloved mansion to pay her debts, Jack eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with abusive mother to the English country- decides to help her by going to California relatives she has never met in far away Key side during World War II. in search of gold. West, Florida. Juv Series I Juv Paperback RYAN P Juv Paperback TAYLOR M I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE ESPERANZA RISING ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY TITANIC, 1912 Esperanza and her mother are forced to A black family living in Mississippi during Excited to board the Titanic, George has leave their life of wealth and privilege in the Depression of the 1930s is faced with just begun to explore when the ship is Mexico to go work in the labor camps of prejudice and discrimination that its chil- Southern California. dren do not understand. rocked by a collision with an iceberg. Juv Fiction KELLY J Juv Paperback RYAN P Juv Fiction VANDERPOOL C THE EVOLUTION OF RIDING FREEDOM MOON OVER MANIFEST CALPURNIA TATE* A fictionalized account of Charley In the summer of 1936, Abilene is sent to Growing up in rural Texas in 1899, Callie Parkhurst, who ran away from an orphan- stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kan- can’t seem to give up her fascination with age and posed as a boy to become a sas, where she hopes to find out some stagecoach driver in California. things about her father’s past. nature despite her mother’s disapproval. Juv Paperback LAI T Juv Fiction SELZNICK B Juv Fiction WOLK L INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN THE INVENTION OF HUGO WOLF HOLLOW Through a series of poems, a young girl CABRET Annabelle is bullied mercilessly by Betty, chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, Hugo, an orphan living with- a new girl in her rural Pennsylvania town. when she, her mother, and her brothers in the walls of a Paris train station in But when Betty disappears, suspicion falls leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. on Annabelle’s friend and protector. 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller. Juv Paperback LOWRY L Juv Paperback SPEARE E Juv Fiction YELCHIN E NUMBER THE STARS THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER BREAKING STALIN’S NOSE In 1943, during the German occupation of Left alone to guard the family's wilder- In Stalinist Russia, Sasha is forced to ex- Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie helps ness home in eighteenth-century Maine, amine his own perceptions, values, and shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. a boy is hard-pressed to survive until lo- beliefs when his father is taken away by cal Indians teach him their skills. the police. Juv Graphic Novel NATHAN Juv Paperback SPEARE E Juv Paperback YEP L NATHAN HALE’S HAZARDOUS THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND DRAGONWINGS TALES: ONE DEAD SPY* In 1687 Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling In the early twentieth century, a young Meet history's roughest, toughest, and out of place in the Puritan house- Chinese boy joins his father in San Fran- craziest stories in graphic novel format, hold of her aunt, befriends an old woman cisco and helps him realize his dream of considered a witch by the community. making a flying machine. starting with the Revolutionary War. Juv Paperback O’DELL S Juv Fiction STRANGE L ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS THE SECRET OF NIGHTINGALE Santa Clara City Library – Youth Services Left alone on an isolated island, a young WOOD 2635 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Indian girl spends eighteen years surviving In 1919, Henrietta discovers that the through her enormous courage and self- woods behind her house contain secrets sclibrary.org reliance. that will change her life forever. .

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