Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls

The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (Magic Carpet Books)

Centaur Rising (Christy Ottaviano Books)

Street Rhymes Around the World

Not All Princesses Dress in Pink

Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters

The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin

The Land of Forgotten Girls

The year is 1942, and Chaim and Gittel, Polish twins, are forced from their beautiful home and made to live in the Lodz Ghetto. Their family's cramped quarters are awful, but when even those dire circumstances become too dangerous, their parents decide to make for the nearby Lagiewniki Forest, where partisan fighters are trying to shepherd Jews to freedom in Russia. The partisans take Chaim and Gittel, with promises that their parents will catch up -- but soon, everything goes wrong. Their small band of fighters is caught and killed. Chaim, Gittel, and their two friends are left alive, only to be sent off to Sobanek concentration camp.

Chaim is quiet, a poet, and the twins often communicate through wordless exchanges of shared looks and their own invented sign language. But when they reach Sobanek, with its squalid conditions, rampant disease, and a building with a belching chimney that everyone is scared to so much as look at, the bond between Chaim and Gittel, once a source of strength, becomes a burden. For there is a doctor there looking to experiment on twins, and what he has in store for them is a horror they dare not imagine.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls

Susan Guevara, Jane Yolen, 2000

The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (Magic Carpet Books)

Tim Hildebrandt, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville, 1988

Centaur Rising (Christy Ottaviano Books)

Jane Yolen, 2014

Street Rhymes Around the World

Jane Yolen, 1992

Not All Princesses Dress in Pink

Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. Stemple, Anne-Sophie Lanquetin, 2010

Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters

Jane Yolen, Heidi E.Y. Stemple, 2006

The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin

Jane Yolen, 2004

The Land of Forgotten Girls

Erin Entrada Kelly, 2016