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Wall Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading List: 5.2. Author: Peter Sis. Key Award: Caldecott Honor. Many Awards.

“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.”

Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities—creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed.

By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.
Canning Season
Canning Season, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.6. Author: Polly Horvath. Key Award: National Book Award.

One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy – whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly’s open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts.
I Juan de Pareja
I, Juan de Pareja
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.5. Author: Elizabeth Borton De Trevino. Key Award: Newbery Medal.

When the great Velázquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan de Pareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
Lantern Bearers, The
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Interest: Grades 8-12.  Author: Rosemary Sutcliff. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.

Threatened by a tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are to leave Britain forever. But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land. Rosemary Sutcliff is known for her highly acclaimed historical fiction. This book is part of a set of loosely-connected books—it follows The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch and precedes Sword at Sunset, but the themes in The Lantern Bearers are more complex than in the prior books. Issues of loss, estrangement, and loyalty are more complicated, pulling main characters in conflicting directions.  This book is very well written, and an excellent choice for those studying ancient Rome or Britain, slightly more mature readers (ages 14+) and for book club discussions - a readers guide is included under "Technical Specs" section.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.0. Author: Peter Cameron. Mature Content.

It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown.  In the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Peter Cameron paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world.
Coram Boy
Coram Boy
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.3. Mature Content. Author: Jamila Gavin. Key Award: Whitbread Award.

Published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery.  A host of characters swirls Jamila Gavin's carefully orchestrated plot, in this disturbing, ultimately uplifting novel about sons and fathers, abuse and abandonment, treachery and devotion.