My Brigadista Year

 by Katherine Paterson

Follow a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.

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The Player King

 by Avi

From Newberry Award-winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England.

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Silk and Song

By Dana Stabenow

Beijing, 1322.  Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo.  In the wake of her father’s death, Johanna finds lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan.  Johanna’s destiny–if she has one, lies with her grandfather, in Venice.  So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road–the Silk Road–that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of the Indies and the jewels of the Indus to the markets of the west.  But first she must survive treachery and betrayal on a road beset by thieves, fanatics and warlords.

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Bloodstains with Bronte

By Katherine Bolger Hyde

Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writer’s retreat.  Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing  too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily’s young single-mother housekeeper.  At a Halloween mystery fundraiser at Windy Corner, someone is found dead and Windy Corner’s very own detective, Luke, is reluctantly forced to investigate Katie.  Will he figure out who the murderer is before Katie ends up in jail or someone else is killed?

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Starfish

 by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Kiko Himura, a half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school.

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