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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Melinda Lo
1950s, San Franciso’s Chinatown: a seventeen-year-old girl is torn between being the image of a good Chinese girl and her newfound love for women when she sneaks into the Telegraph Club.
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Queen's Spade
by Sarah Raughilly
Nineteen-year-old princess of the Egbado Clan seeks revenge against 1862’s England for transforming her from a princess into Queen Victoria’s “property”. With her wedding day approaching, she has to balance revenge, freedom, and pain that comes with vengeance.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
1939, Nazi Germany: a young girl named Liesel steals a book from her brother’s graveside and soon begins to learn to read with the help of her father and the Jewish man her family is hiding in the basement.
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Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
As the American Revolution begins, a thirteen-year-old girl is sold as a slave to a New York couple and begins to spy on them for those who oppose British rule.
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I Shall Never Fall In Love
by Hari Conner
Set in late 1800s England, a group of friends grow into new roles they feel are assigned: to manage the family’s wealth, to find someone to marry, and navigate their complicated emotions all the while.
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Under the Broken Sky
by Mariko Nagai
At the outbreak of WWII, a Manchurian family is broken apart: father drafted to the Japanese army and forced to sell one of their daughters.
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Warrior on the Mound
by Sandra W. Headen
A twelve-year-old black boy in 1935 is accused of trespassing on the whites-only baseball field and decides to settle the disagreement through a game.
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Most Ardently
by Gabe Cole Novoa
A reimagining of Pride and Prejudice: London, 1812 is home to Oliver Bennet who is unhappy with the perception of him as “Elizabeth” Bennet. However, upon meeting the sulky and rude Darcy, he finds more time to be his true self.
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Alex & Eliza
by Melissa de la Cruz
1777, Albany New York: With the American Revolution on the horizon, the Schuyler sisters enjoy the privilege of being one of the nation’s founding families, and become interested in Washington’s right hand man.
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The Parker Inheritance
by Varian Johnson
After finding a letter in her grandmother’s attic, two young black teens decide to right the wrong that was done in their town decades prior.
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I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
1989 Romania; a seventeen-year-old is blackmailed to be a police informer all while he tries to remain creative and work against the communist regime.
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The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown
by Elizabeth Laird
In postwar London, a young teen returns from isolation after recovering from Polio and finds her family in a new, huge house left to them by a mysterious benefactor.
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Kingston, Massachusetts 02364
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