outstanding YA fiction
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Julie
by Catherine Marshall
Julie Wallace is just eighteen in 1934 when her father risks their life savings on a struggling newspaper and moves the family to a flood-prone …

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Christy
by Catherine Marshall
In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient …

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The Gift of Sarah Barker
by Jane Yolen
Sharing an unspoken and forbidden love, Sarah and Abel, two young members of a Shaker community, begin to question their way of life and that …


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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
A vicious captain, a mutinous crew -- and a young girl caught in the middle Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to …

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Broken Days
by Ann Rinaldi
The second page-turning installment of award-winning historical-fiction author Ann Rinaldi's QUILT TRILOGY. "A definite plus for any historical fiction collection." - VOYA When her mother …

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A Stitch in Time
by Ann Rinaldi
Hannah is the strong one. The one who cares for her brothers and sisters; the one who's kept the family together. But now, everything is …


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Anna's World
by Wim Coleman
"An earlier version of this novel was published as Sister Anna by Discovery Enterprises, 2000."