The Red Tent Anita Diamant (The Four Wives of Jacob)

Biblical era The Red Tent Anita Diamant (The four The Wicked and the Just wives of Jacob) J. Anderson Coats (English noblewoman Cecily meets Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl The Secret Chord**** forced to be a servant) Geraldine Brooks (The life of King David)

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt 1500’s Christ the Lord: The Road to Canna Caravaggio: Painter on the Run***** Ann Rice Marissa Moss (famous Renaissance painter is accused of murder) Ancient Egypt Lily of the Nile Stephanie Dray The Passion of Dolssa******** (daughter of Cleopatra captured and Julie Berry (a young girl is condemned by enslaved) the Inquistion)

Sphinx’s Queen Esther M. Friesner Jepp, who defied the Stars Katherine (Nefertiti) Marsh (teenage dwarf leaves home seeking Cleopatra’s moon Vicky Shecter destiny)

Ancient Greece 1700’s King of Ithaka Tracy Barrett (Odyssey as Homecoming***** told by his son) Yaa Gyasi (Follows the journey of two half- sisters from Ghana; one marries a wealthy The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller colonial man and the other is sent to (retelling of the Iliad) America and sold into slavery)

Mozart’s Last Aria Matt Rees 300s BC (Mozart’s sister looks into his death) Fire From Heaven Mary Renault (Alexander the Great) Father of Lies Ann Turner (Witchcraft in Salem) Medieval times Harvest The Betrayal of Maggie Blair Jim Crace (change is foretold by fire in Elizabeth Laird (Witchcraft accusations in English village) Scotland) Woods Runner Gary Paulsen 1100’s (13-year-old tries to rescue parents from The Queen’s Daughter British soldiers) Susan Coventry (Young man joins the crusades) Chains; Forge Laurie Halse Anderson (slavegirl spies for the rebels during the The Wager Donna Jo Napoli (Don Giovanni Revolutionary War). & the devil) 1800’s 1200s At the Edge of the Orchard Daughter of Xanadu Tracy Chevalier (British family moves to the Dori Jones Yang (granddaughter of Khublai Black Swamp in Ohio when the children Khan becomes a warrior and falls in love begin dying of swamp fever) with Marco Polo)

Updated 10-3-2016 ****New Books SY 16/17 Vengeance Road**** Erin Bowman (When Kate’s father is killed WIldthorne Jane Eagland over a mysterious journal, she disguises Young woman is locked away in an insane herself as a boy and looks for answers) asylum where they try to change her identity A Madness so Discreet Mindy McGinnis (Sent to an insane asylum Prisoners in the Palace Michaela MacColl after becoming pregnant from rape, Grace intrigue & romance in Princess Victoria’s Mae escapes and begins to hunt down court murderers) Three Rivers Rising Jame Richards cross-class romance and disastrous flood

Forbidden Orchid The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Sharon Waller (Elodie is forced on an (Follows the lives of Hetty, a slave, and her adventure to find a rare orchid in order to master, Sarah) prevent her family from being sent to the poorhouse) Willow Tonya Cherie Hegamin (Willow, an educated slave girl, chooses Rebel Queen between staying with her family or escaping Michelle Moran (The story of Queen to freedom) Lakshmi--India's Joan of Arc--who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier defend her beloved kingdom.) (Female fossil hunter clashes with religion and men) Orphan Train Christina Kline (A young girl learns about Snow Mountain Passage James D. her elderly neighbor’s experience on an Houston orphan train. These trains carried children to adoptive families for 75 years, from the mid- The Dark Unwinding Sharon Cameron nineteenth century to the start of the Great (Duke of Portland provides work for poor Depression. ) families)

The Last Runaway The Year We Were Famous Carole Estby Tracy Chevalier (A young girl joins the Dagg Underground Railroad to help runaway (girl helps her mother raise money to save slaves escape to freedom.) home)

Always Emily Michaela MacColl Heart of a Samurai Margi Preus (Young Bronte sisters investigate burglaries (Shipwrecked boy becomes the first and murders) Japanese on American soil)

Dodger Terry Pratchett (homeless boy in London 1900-1980 prevents Sweeney Todd from committing Pearl of China Anchee Min murder) (friendship between Pearl Buck and a Chinese woman) Longbourn Jo Baker (Companion novel to Pride & 1900’s Prejudice- focuses on the servants of the Outrun the Moon****** Bennet Household) Stacey Lee (San Francisco Earthquake of 1906) Fallen Grace Mary Hooper (Young woman swindled in Silver People: Voices from the Panama Dickensian England) Canal Updated 10-3-2016 ****New Books SY 16/17 Margarita Engle (Details the harsh working conditions workers faced while building the The Steep and Thorny Way Cat Winers Panama Canal) (Biracial girl in searches for the truth about her father’s death while advoiding trouble Audacity from the Ku Klux Klan) Melanie Crowder (Details the life of Clara Lemlich & her struggle for women’s labor Wonder Show rights in the early 1900s) Hannah Barnaby (Depression era runaway joins the circus) Little Century Anna Keesey (Homesteading in Century, Oregon) Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber (Teenager is hired out to work as a Rachel’s secret Shelly Sanders (Jewish housekeeper) oppression in Russia) The Fire Horse Girl Kay Honeyman 1910’s (“unlucky” girl detained at Angel Island Immigration Station) Velvet Undercover Teri Brown (Young British girl during WWI is sent undercover to rescue Britain’s most 1930’s valuable spy) Girl about Town**** Adam Shankman (murder mystery set in Hired Girl Amy Schlitz 1930’s Hollywood) (A Pennsylvania working girl in 1911 dreams of a better life.) Out of Darkness Ashley Hope Perez (A Mexican girl and a Like Water on Stone black boy deal with race, segregation, and Dana Walrath (Inspired by a true story, tells love in 1937 Texas.) the tale of siblings who survive the Armenian genocide of 1915.) Nightingale Kristin Hannah (A French family is forced to house German A Death-Struck Year soldiers in WWII) Makiia Lucier (17-year Chloe quits school to work for the Red Cross when the Spanish Black Dove White Raven Elizabeth Wein Influenza epidemic hits Portland) (Family moves to Ethiopia on the brink of WWII) The Montmaray Journals Michelle Cooper (Follows the FitzOsborne royal family Vango: Between Sky and Earth Timothee on their remote island) Fombelle (In 1934 a young man about to take his priestly vows, finds himself falsely accused Home is Beyond the Mountains of murder.) Celia Barker Lottridge (Turkish refuges in WWI) Deadly Julie Chibbaro (Typhoid Mary)

Threads and Flames 1940’s Esther Friesner (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Girl in the Blue Coat***** story) Monica Hese (During WWII, a “finder” of black market goods is tasked with finding a The Sandcastle Girls Chris Bohjalian Jewish girl a customer had been hiding.) (Armenian genocide)

1920’s Lucky Strikes Louis Bayard***** Under a Painted Sky****** (Orphans struggle during the depression) Updated 10-3-2016 ****New Books SY 16/17 Stacey Lee (A Chinese American girl and an Morris Gleitzman (Jewish boy in Nazi- African American girl disguised as boys Poland) travel the Oregon Trail) Ashes Kathryn Lasky (German girl & Hitler) The Muralist Barbara Shapiro (No one knows what Shindler’s list Thomas Keneally happened to WPA painter Alizee Benoit, who vanished in New York City in 1940.) Exodus Leon Uris (Classic novel - the birth of Israel) A Prince without a Kingdom Timothee de Fombelle (On the run after WWI, Vango tries to figure out who is really Annexed is and who is hunting him.) Sharon Dogar (Anne Frank’s story from Peter’s point of view) At the Water’s Edge Sara Gruen (A young woman's experiences the The Auslander devastations of World War II in a Scottish Paul Dowswell (Orphan adopted by Highlands village) German professor)

Hunt for the Bamboo Rat 1950’s Grashan Salisbury(The plight of 17 year-old Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee as he escapes from a Philippine POW camp Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to and gets lost in the jungle) Alabama in the mid-1950s, to visit her father, Atticus, and witnesses the civil rights The Light in the Ruins tensions and political turmoil of the era. Chris Bohjalian (A noble Italian family’s estate is taken over by Nazis & becomes Mister Death’s Blue-eyed Girls Mary their prison) Downing Hahn (1956 murder of two teenage girls in Code Name Verity suburban Baltimore, Maryland) Elizabeth Wein (British POW tries to survive) 1960’s The War Within These Walls I’m Glad I Did Aline Sax (Warsaw ghetto uprising) Cynthia Weil (About a songwriter living in New York in 1963) My Family for the War Anne C. Voorhoeve (girl is smuggled out of Call Me By My Name John Ed Bradley Germany) (high school football players, one white, one black, become friends in 1960s Louisiana) The Berlin Boxing Club Robert Sharenow (Jewish boxer in Nazi Germany) The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky (During Vietnam war, there’s a murder on All the Light We Cannot See the homefront) Anthony Doerr (A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied The Bartender’s Tale Ivan Doig France as both try to survive the (bartender and his 12 year old son in small devastation of World War II.) Montana town)

Between Shades of Gray Are You Experienced? Jordan Sonnenblick Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanians sent to Soviet (60s Woodstock) labor camp)

Once ; Then 1970’s The World Beneath Janice Warman

Updated 10-3-2016 ****New Books SY 16/17 (The 1976 riots in South Africa and apartheid) Dancer, Daughter, Traiter, Spy Elizabeth Kiem (Daughter of Russian spies Burn Baby Burn Meg Medina moves to the US) (Life in New York during the summer of 1977 in the midst of arson, blackouts, and Into the Dangerous World Julie Chibbaro the serial killer “Son of Sam”) (After being raised on a commune, Ror tries to find her place in the outside world) Never Fall Down Patricia McCormick (Cambodian child survives the Khmer 1990’s Rouge) Fig Sarah Schantz (In 1994, Fig looks back on The Lotus Eaters Tatjana Soli her life as she desperately tries to save her (Photojournalist finds war and love in mother from schizophrenia.) Vietnam) Girl at War The Disappeared Gloria Whelan Sara Novic (A young woman recounts her (Argentinian boy is among the disappeared. struggles during the 1991 civil war in His sister romances the general’s son to Croatia.) earn his release) Carnival at Bray Jessie Ann Foley (Set in Ireland in the 1990s; influenced by Beneath the Lion’s Gaze Maaza Mengiste the band Nirvana) (Family faces the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia) Over a thousand hills I walk with you Hanna Jansen (Rwandan genocide) In the Shadow of the Banyan Vaddey Ratner A Time of Miracles Anne-Laure Bondoux (Cambodian girl fights for survival when the (Orphan flees the collapse of the Soviet Khmer Rouge regime takes power) Union.)

1980’s 2000’s Aluta***** A Million Miles Away Adwoad Badoe (Charlotte is excited to be Lara Avery (Shortly after her boyfriend, starting college in Ghana, but soon the Peter, is deployed to Afghanistan, high country is in chaos when the government is school senior Michelle dies in a car crash) overthrown in a coup.) Shine Coconut Moon Neesha Meminger High Dive (Teenage girl of Indian heritage comes of Jonathan Lee (Tells the story of the 1984 age in NYC post 9/11) assassination attempt of the British Prime Minister by the IRA)

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