A girl struggles to survive amid a smallpox epidemic, the public’s fear of inoculation and the Revolutionary War in Rebellion 1776, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Browsing: ages 10 & up
It’s a race against time for a girl to save her family’s refuge for extraterrestrials in The Extraterrestrial Zoo: Finding the Lost One, by Samantha van Leer.
Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space, by Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson is a primer for teens who may someday travel to the moon.
A girl who caught between the realm of the living and dead gets lost in the Underworld in River of Spirits, the first book in The Underwild series by Shana Targosz.
A girl must solve riddles, follow flues, find a secret island and break a 200-year-old curse in Isle of Ever, a middle-grade novel by Jen Calonita.
Fifth grade becomes overwhelming for a girl who struggles with depression in Octopus Moon, a novel in verse by Bobbie Pyron.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling A Wizard of Earthsea has now been reimagined in a graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham.
Meet three women who followed their scientific dreams in Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, by Jeannine Atkins.
A 10-year-old Shakespeare fan tries to figure out his changing relationship with his big brother in Werewolf Hamlet, by Kerry Madden-Lunsford.
A group of kids investigate the threat that prompted large-scale evacuations in Away, a companion novel to Megan E. Freeman’s Alone.