Category: Children + YA
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The Outsider by Katy Morgan: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: The Bible story of Ruth is imaginatively brought to life in this biblically faithful chapter book that helps kids 8+ engage with God’s word. Readers will find themselves immersed in the hearts and minds of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz as they experience difficulty, uncertainty, danger,…
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Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2016 Blurb: While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime…
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Romanov by Nadine Brandes: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2019 Blurb: Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he’s hunted Romanov before.…
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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her. What Jack doesn’t…
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Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2019 Blurb: Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust…
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The Edge by Roland Smith: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2015 Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello hasn’t climbed since intentionally failing to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He’s been enjoying life at sea level, spending his time with the Two Peas—his younger twin sisters—and being a regular, law-abiding teenager. But then his old climbing buddies, JR, Will,…
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A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Truyan Saigas didn’t choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters. A gifted art forger, Tru has the unique ability to paint the future, but even such…
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Miles From Nowhere by Amy Clipston: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2015 Blurb: Chelsea Morris has always been responsible, dependable, and focused on her dreams of fashion design, a dream that will officially begin come fall, when she leaves for college in New York City. As she settles into her role as the lead designer for the local…
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The Red Palace by June Hur: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps…
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Chasing Echoes by Corinne Weber: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: What do you do when you find out your childhood friend is a mermaid? When Gemma and Mariana reunite after a decade, it is world changing in more ways than one for the vivacious teen. Gemma and her brother Sebastian are shown the hidden magical…
