Barker, M. P. – A Difficult Boy
In Farmington, Massachusetts, in 1839, nine-year-old Ethan experiences hardships as an indentured servant of the wealthy Lyman family alongside Daniel, a boy scorned simply for being Irish, and the boys bond as they try to right a terrible wrong.
Bryant, Jennifer – Kaleidoscope Eyes
In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
Davidson, Jenny – The Explosionist
In Scotland in the 1930s, fifteen-year-old Sophie, her friend Mikael, and her great-aunt Tabitha are caught up in a murder mystery involving terrorists and suicide-bombers whose plans have world-shaping consequences.
Duble, Kathleen Benner – Quest
Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1610 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.
Elliot, L.M. – A Troubled Peace
Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.
Gardner, Sally – The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
Hooper, Mary – Newes From The Dead
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.
Karr, Kathleen – Fortune’s Fool
In medieval Germany, fifteen-year-old Conrad, a court jester, and his beloved Christa, a servant girl, escape from a cruel master and journey through the countryside on a quest to find a kind lord who will give them sanctuary.
Kolosov, Jacqueline – A Sweet Disorder
When sixteen-year-old Miranda's father dies, she is sent to live with her father's cousin, Count John Hardwood, who sells her to Court for profit; and as part of Queen Elizabeth's court, Miranda attempts to leverage her seamstress skills to gain her independence and reunite with Henry Raleigh, whom she has always loved.
Meyer, L. A. – My Bonny Light Horseman
Jacky Faber, forced to go behind enemy lines in Paris as an American dancer, seduces a French general to obtain military secrets and save her friends, then dresses in male clothing and penetrates the French army to fight with Napoleon.
Polak, Monique – What World Is Left
Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.
Scott, Regina – La Petite Four
In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.