Escaping into the Night by D. Dina Friedman
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and
flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews
trying to survive World War II.
When We Wake by Karen Healey
In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing
the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with
her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as
the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and
successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to
light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a
better future.
Blind Spot by Laura Ellen
Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell
Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of
that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision,
in order to clear her name and find a murderer?
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Theives, & Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every
tale. Decide whether Tituba was really a conspiring witch or just a
humble housemaid. Analyse the evidence stacked for and against Lizzie
Borden. And what made the brazen Cleopatra so dishonorable . . . or
honorable? Each chapter ends with comic panels featuring caricatures of
the authors discussing the women, with Heidi arguing as the prosecution
and Jane arguing for context.
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of
Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate Ginger Boltinghouse, the
two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in
their hometown.
