Toro! Toro!

Palace of Stone: Princess Academy

The Storm Runner

The Runaway King: The Ascendance Trilogy

School of the Dead

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia

Shadow Forest

Mouseheart

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.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Toro! Toro!

Michael Foreman, Michael Morpurgo, 2001

Palace of Stone: Princess Academy

Shannon Hale, 2012

The Storm Runner

J.C. Cervantes, 2018

The Runaway King: The Ascendance Trilogy

Jennifer A. Nielsen, 2013

School of the Dead

Avi, 2016

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia

Paul Mccusker, C. S. Lewis, 2001

Shadow Forest

Matt Haig, 2007

Mouseheart

Lisa Fiedler, Vivienne To, 2014