Gripping Historical Fiction!

Mending Horses

by M.P. Barker

 In 1830s New England, Irish immigrant Daniel, formerly indentured as a servant, gains his freedom only to be accused of stealing his former master's horse, a rumor that quickly escalates to include mass murder and leads to his near lynching. 

After his rescue, the teen travels to a nearby town and falls in with his old friend Stocking, now accompanied by 12-year-old Billy. Soon Daniel discovers that Billy, who Stocking rescued from a drunken, ne'er-do-well of a father, is actually a girl in disguise. The three travel and work odd jobs until they find a place in a traveling circus, where Daniel's skills with horses and ponies, whose anatomical and behavioral scars he can mend, prove to be quite a boon. 

Meanwhile, obstinate and headstrong Billy learns tragic news about the family she has left behind.  - BookList Review

Call # YA  BARKER, M.P.

Stories Told Through Poetry

A poetic exploration of the construction of 

the Panama Canal.

Silver People 

Voices from the Panama Canal

by Margarita Engle

Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.

From the young "silver people" whose backbreaking labor built the Canal to the denizens of the endangered rain forest itself, this is the story of one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken...beautifully told through the voices of the workers in the form of 

short poems.

The Choice is Difficult...

...Baseball or War?

The Right Fight

World War II Book One

by Chris Lynch

There are few things Roman loves as much as baseball, but his country is at the top of the list. So when it looks like the United States will be swept up into World War II, he turns his back on baseball and joins the US Army.

Roman doesn't mind. As it turns out, he is far more talented with a tank than he ever was with a baseball. And he is eager to drive his tank right into the field of battle, where the Army is up against the fearsome Nazis of the Afrika Korps.

The North African terrain is like nothing Roman has ever known, and desert warfare proves brutal. As Roman drives his team deeper into disputed territory, one thing becomes very clear: Life in wartime is a whole new ball game.

Call # YA LYNCH, CHRIS

Based on a true story...

Felix O'Sullivan's world is crumbling around him: the mine that employs most of town is on the brink of closing, threatening to shatter the entire town. But Red's got his own burdens to bear: his older brother, Bobby, died in the war, and he's been struggling to follow in his footsteps ever since. That means assuming Bobby's old position as quarterback, and leading the last-ever Muckers team to the championship. Maybe then his angry, broken-hearted father will acknowledge him, and they'll be able to put Bobby's death behind them.

But the only way for the hardscrabble Muckers team to win State is to go undefeated, and tackle their biggest rival, Phoenix United, which would be something of a miracle.

Call #: YA Wallace, Sandra Neil NEW

In honor of Veterans Day!

Invasion

by

Walter Dean Myers

It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the globe, people are filled with fear. When Josiah and Marcus come together in what will be the greatest test of their lives, they learn hard lessons about race, friendship, and what it really means to fight.

YA Myers, Walter Dean NEW

Based on a true story...

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him. Until he meets George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath.Can Lewis survive Evan's meanness and keep George from finding out the truth? Read to find out...

 

Call #: YA Gansworth, Eric  NEW

Life will never be the same for Red Porter!

He's a kid growing up around black car grease, white fence paint, and the backward attitudes of the folks who live in his hometown, Rocky Gap, Virginia.

Red's daddy, his idol, has just died, leaving Red and Mama with some hard decisions and a whole lot of doubt. Should they sell the Porter family business, a gas station, repair shop, and convenience store rolled into one, where the slogan "Porter's: We Fix it Right!"  has been shouting the family's pride for as long as anyone can remember?

With Daddy gone, everything's different. Through his friendship with Thomas, Beau, and Miss Georgia, Red starts to see there's a lot more than car motors and rusty fenders that need fixing in his world.
When Red discovers the injustices that have been happening in Rocky Gap since before he was born, he's faced with unsettling questions about his family's legacy.

Call #: YA Erskine, Kathryn NEW

He is only 17...and the Throne is His

Destined for greatness...tormented by demons. 

The epic story of Henry VIII's transformation from a handsome, gifted youth to a murderous, cruel king.

VIII
by H. M. Castor

Hal is a young man of extraordinary talents. Great skill on the battlefield, sharp intelligence, and virtue. He believes he is destined for greatness but, haunted by his family's violent past, he embarks on a journey that leads to absolute power and brings him face to face with his demons as he grows to become...Henry VIII.

Hal is a young man of extraordinary talents. Great skill on the battlefield, sharp intelligence, and virtue.

He believes he is destined for greatness but, haunted by his family's violent past, he embarks on a journey that leads to absolute power and brings him face to face with his demons as he grows to become...Henry VIII.

Call # YA CASTOR H.M.

Read a book about Early America!

Would you have been able to survive in America...before it WAS America?

Redemption
by Julie Chibbaro


The wet earth smells of mushroom and loam. I race through the trees. Branches reach for my eyes and tangle my hair. My kirtle rips, but I still run, faster through the woodland, escaping the murderous men who chase behind me with vicious, barking dogs. The men are my enemies and the woodland is my friend.


Narrated by 12-year-old Lily.  She and her mother are forced off their
English land by the baron's men. Her father has been missing for many months now, and they are to seek safety from religious persecution in passage to the New World.
 But all is not what it seems, and the nightmarish voyage, the evil baron, and Lily's loss of innocence on board the ship are just the beginning of Lily's travails.
When the ship literally crashes into the New World and breaks apart upon the rocks, Lily and the baron's son Ethan go ashore and begin a new life there. Set in the early 1500s.

Call #  YA CHI

Read if you dare...

Can't wait for this one!!!

What tangled webs we weave...

 Wentworth Hall

by

Abby Grahame

In 1912 England, eighteen-year-old Maggie Darlington returns from France to learn that her father hopes to restore the family fortunes through her marriage and his guardianship of two orphaned teens, but scandalous satires in the newspaper threaten to spoil his plans and reveal the family's many secrets.

Call #: YA Grahame, Abby NEW

A New Historical Fiction Book!

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
by Elizabeth Laird

In seventeenth-century Scotland, saying the wrong thing can lead to banishment—or worse. Accused of being a witch, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged. She escapes, but instead of finding shelter with her principled, patriotic uncle, she brings disaster to his door. Betrayed by one of her own accusers, Maggie must try to save her uncle and his family from the king’s men, even if she has to risk her own life in the process.

Call # YA Laird,Elizabeth New

New!

The Secret Journeys of Jack London
By Christopher Golden

Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.

Read The Book Before Seeing The Movie!

The movie Jane Eyre comes out Friday, March 11th!
Check out the movie poster and the trailer below!
Then come to the library and checkout the book before you see the movie!

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Take A Trip Through Time!

If you could go anywhere,
at anytime,
where would you go?

Check out one of our NEW Historical Fiction books and see where
your imagination takes you!

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison
In a series of journal entries, Jenny Cooper describes her stay with cousin Jane Austen in the 1790s, and her entrance into Jane's world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance.


Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.


Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacColl
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.


Wild Geese by Caroline Pignat
Wild Geese, the sequel to Greener Grass, follows Kit Byrne and her friend Mick O'Toole after they leave famine-stricken Ireland. Across the Atlantic, through Grosse Isle quarantine station, and on to Upper Canada, the two teenagers endure storms, epidemics, and quarantines. Desperate to find her family who traveled on a different ship, Kit is willing to sacrifice everything, even her love for Mick, to reunite the remaining orphaned Byrnes. Jack and Annie are out there somewhere and Kit will not stop searching until she finds them and her family is
together again.

The Best Of The Best 2010

Pick Of The Day!

Today's Pick Is From Ms. Laura!

Countdown by Deborah Wiles

Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear.

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The Best Of The Best 2010

Pick of the Day!
Today's Pick Is From Mrs. Lora!

Three Rivers Crossing: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
by Jame Richards

Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown.

Keep Checking Back For More Of Our 2010 Picks!

Could it be possible ...

Newes from the Dead
by Mary Hopper

Based on a true story, in 1650, Anne Green is unfairly sentenced to death for supposedly killing her new born baby. Her corpse is about to be dissected for scientific study, when the doctor notices her eyelids fluttering. Could it be true? Could she still be alive after being hung? Read to find out...

And the runner up is.....

Tales of the Madman Underground : A Historical Romance 1973
By John Barnes

In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground. *A runner up for the 2010 Printz Award! A great High School read!