Over the course of a summer in Wales, 16-year-old Ginny, the artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father’s earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
Young Adult (ages 14-18)
Material appropriate for young adults
The Minister’s Daughter
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
Behind The Secret Window: A Memoir Of A Hidden Childhood During Ww Ii
The autobiographical account of an eight-year-old Jewish girl as she hides from the Nazis in a small bedroom in Lwow, Poland, in 1943 contains twenty-nine examples of her many paintings during that period.
Season Of Rage: Hugh Burnett And The Struggle For Civil Rights
The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden, the site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The Heaven Shop
Binti and her siblings struggle to survive when they are split up and sent to different parts of Malawi after their parents die of AIDS.
Tikvah: Children’s Book Creators Reflect On Human Rights
Natalie Babbit, Eric Carle, Jerry Pinkney, and other celebrated authors and illustrators have compiled their work in this insightful book about human rights for young adult readers.
The Blood Stone
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, stopping in India to raise the ransom by selling his father’s beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan.
Shadow In The North
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.
Escape From Botany Bay: The True Story Of Mary Bryant
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.
The Water Mirror
In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively.