Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher - Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a new-born king in Bethlehem.
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez - In the early 1960’s in the Dominican Republic, 12-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Day of Tears by Julius Lester - When gambling debts and greed enter into the Butler household, Pierce Butler decides to host a slave auction, breaking his promise not to sell Emma, his most-valued slave and the caretaker of his children–a decision that brings about unexpected consequences.
Dragon’s Keep by Janet Lee Carey - In 1145 AD, as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the 21st Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from people the dragon’s claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother’s dark secrets.
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick - When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his school life, complicated emotions, and his desire to support his desire to support his family.
family.
Heat by Mike Lupica - Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches don’t believe he is only 12 years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Leonardo’s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant by Christopher Grey - Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting “The Last Supper” while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his onw career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer - Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcaniceruptions.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riodan - After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, the God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to stop a war between the gods.
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve - In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of
another.
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