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Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

When Ken first hears the news that his parents are sending him to Canada, he thinks this is his stepmother’s way of finally getting rid of him. But once the bombs start to fall on his London home, and his family has to the spend their nights in the stinky, crowded bomb shelter, Canada doesn’t…

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My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver

Lu is the daughter of Argentinian immigrants, living in Alabama. She's in sixth grade, in a recently integrated school and feeling like an outsider of her own because she's Latina. For the most part, white students and black students sit on opposite sides of the room, are only friends with people who look like them.…

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Lifeboat 12 book cover

Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

No one can know the difference that is made by making one choice instead of another. Rarely, though, do our decisions mean the difference between life and death. It did for Ken. It was 1940 and WW II was at its peak. Britain prepared for the invasion they were expecting from Hitler and his armies.…

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River Runs Deep by Jennifer Bradbury

Follow Elias, who at the ripe young age of twelve contracts consumption and is sent to a doctor who specializes in experimental treatment of the disease. What is the catch? The doctor only treats people deep inside a cave! Once Elias is in his tiny hut underground, he struggles to adjust to the darkness and his…

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Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

The Newbery honor author of Wolf Hollow has come out with another stunningly poignant novel with a unique historical setting. In Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk, 12-year-old Crow was a baby when she washed up on an island off the New England coast. It was Osh who found her and he has cared…

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Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Annabelle has lived on her family’s farm in rural Pennsylvania her whole life. She lives in a nice house that has been in the family for a long time and she helps around their farm when needed. She is also friendly with her neighbors including Toby, a World War I veteran who lives in a…

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A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Imagine that someone builds a wall in the middle of the night separating your town into different sides. You have to stay on the side you are on and never get to visit the other side. That is exactly what happened when the Berlin Wall was built to separate the West from the East. Gerta,…

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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

It is September 9, 2001. A day like any other day. Children in school, parents working, families settling down to their dinners – nothing out of the ordinary in any way. Our story begins here, introducing us to four children and their families, one each in Chicago, Illinois; Shanksville, Pennsylvania; Brooklyn, New York; and Columbus,…

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Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Think of a piece of music.  In this song, there are three harmonies that come together to make the melody.  Each of these three children’s stories is one of those harmonies. Friedrich lives in Nazi Germany.  All he wants is to be left alone to play music, but first he needs to rescue his father…

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