Fever 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson) - YA FICTION ANDERSON:

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Check Availability

Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson) - YA FICTION ANDERSON:

Slaves Isabel and younger sister Ruthie are sold to harsh Loyalists at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Isabel must decide to be loyal or spy for the American patriots. Check Availability

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (M. T. Anderson) - YA FICTION ANDERSON:

He was raised as an experiment and considered a piece of property. Now that revolution has come to America, will Octavian find freedom? Check Availability

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (M. T. Anderson) - YA FICTION ANDERSON:

When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. Check Availability

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Check Availability

A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray) - YA FICTION BRAY:

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her ability to see into the spirit world. Check Availability

Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers) - YA FICTION MYERS:

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. Check Availability

Sunrise Over Fallujah (Walter Dean Myers) - YA FICTION MYERS:

Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him. Check Availability

The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien) - YA FICTION OBRIEN:

Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. Check Availability

Milkweed (Jerry Spinelli) - YA FICTION SPINELLI:

Captures the hardships and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II, through the eyes of a Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable events and circumstances. Check Availability

Night (Elie Wiesel) - 940.548 WIESEL:

The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provide a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity. Check Availability

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) - YA FICTION ZUSAK:

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding. Check Availability