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YA Historical Fiction

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by Jacqueline Woodson

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner: BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.

Song of a Blackbird

by Marie van Lieshout

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Fictionalized but based on true events, Song of a Blackbird has two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a thrilling tale of a WWII-era bank heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters.

The Blood Years

by Elana K. Arnold

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.

The Davenports

by Krystal Marquis

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The first in a breathless YA series set in 1910 Chicago, The Davenports offers a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked, while delivering a totally escapist, swoon-worthy read

The Prince and the Coyote

by David Bowles

Hardcover: Oct 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From Pura Belpré honoree David Bowles comes a young adult epic about one of the greatest minds of the Americas (honored to this day on Mexico's 100-peso bill).

I Must Betray You

by Ruta Sepetys

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray.

The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin

by Kip Wilson

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson.

My Fine Fellow

by Jennieke Cohen

Hardcover: Jan 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance - perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice...

Luck of the Titanic

by Stacey Lee

Hardcover: May 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

From the critically-acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Mar 2022

Critics' Consensus:

"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.
We are not free.
But we are not alone."

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo

Hardcover: Jan 2021 | Paperback: Dec 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.

They Went Left

by Monica Hesse

Hardcover: Apr 2020 | Paperback: Apr 2021

Critics' Consensus:

A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.

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