Toro! Toro!

Finnikin of the Rock

Namesake: A Novel

The Sleeping Sword

Palace of Stone: Princess Academy

The Adventures of the New Cut Gang

New Lands: The Chronicles of Egg

The Storm Runner

Inspired by true events, David Safier's 28 A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical YA that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust.

Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"―killed or "resettled" to concentration camps―she desperately tries to find a way to save her family.

She meets a group of young people who are planning the an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for twenty-eight days, longer than anyone had thought possible.

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Namesake: A Novel

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Palace of Stone: Princess Academy

Shannon Hale, 2012

The Adventures of the New Cut Gang

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New Lands: The Chronicles of Egg

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