Middle Grade
5 books, newest first
A fictional first-person verse account of Rachel Carson's life, from her childhood in Pennsylvania to her work as a marine biologist and writer who helped start the environmental movement.
The voices of six children, inspired by real people, tell how a neglected dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, owned by a club of wealthy businessmen, burst in 1889 and plunged the working-class city into chaos.
Nine-year-old Grace is sent to work in the Big House and can't keep her thoughts to herself, until her family must escape into the Great Dismal Swamp to stay together.
In a village near Port-au-Prince, Serafina dreams of school and of becoming a doctor, but floods and then the 2010 earthquake test every promise she has made to her family.
Matt Pin, evacuated from Vietnam as a young child and adopted by an American family, struggles with survivor's guilt and memories of the brother and mother he left behind.