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FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER                                Loung Ung is 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge assumes power over Cambodia in 1975. They soon begin a four-year reign of terror and genocide in which nearly 2 million Cambodians die. Forced from her family's home in Phnom Penh, Ung is trained as a child soldier while her six siblings are sent to labor camps.    

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FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER                                Loung Ung is 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge assumes power over Cambodia in 1975. They soon begin a four-year reign of terror and genocide in which nearly 2 million Cambodians die. Forced from her family's home in Phnom Penh, Ung is trained as a child soldier while her six siblings are sent to labor camps.    

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LOST BOY, LOST GIRL          The story of two young children who had their lives disrupted by war. They each traveled far by foot, fighting rebels and starvation, to reach a refugee camp. They grew up in the camp, without immediate family and eventually made their way to America.John lived in a rural village where his family raised cows. He had a pleasant life until he was 13. At that time, soldiers attacked his village, and he was separated from his parents. A neighbor named Abraham helped him, and they walked for months, traveling over 500 miles to Ethiopia, where they were headed for a refugee camp called Pinyudu.Martha lived in the city of Juba. She was five years old when her mother took her sister and her to live with a cousin in the country because war was coming to their city. While their parents were away at church, the country home was attacked. Martha's relative took her, her sister, and her own five children on a very long journey to find shelter at a refugee camp called Pinyudu. Along the way, they hid from soldiers and fought illness, dehydration, and starvation.Once they reached the camp, they joined many others. The adults lived together, and the boys were separate. They were called the "Lost Boys." The United Nations brought them food, and they set up shelters. The refugees continue to fight disease and starvation. The girls were placed with families, and Martha lived with a woman named Yar. One day they were told that they would have to leave because the new government was closing the refugee camp.

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LOST BOY, LOST GIRL          The story of two young children who had their lives disrupted by war. They each traveled far by foot, fighting rebels and starvation, to reach a refugee camp. They grew up in the camp, without immediate family and eventually made their way to America.John lived in a rural village where his family raised cows. He had a pleasant life until he was 13. At that time, soldiers attacked his village, and he was separated from his parents. A neighbor named Abraham helped him, and they walked for months, traveling over 500 miles to Ethiopia, where they were headed for a refugee camp called Pinyudu.Martha lived in the city of Juba. She was five years old when her mother took her sister and her to live with a cousin in the country because war was coming to their city. While their parents were away at church, the country home was attacked. Martha's relative took her, her sister, and her own five children on a very long journey to find shelter at a refugee camp called Pinyudu. Along the way, they hid from soldiers and fought illness, dehydration, and starvation.Once they reached the camp, they joined many others. The adults lived together, and the boys were separate. They were called the "Lost Boys." The United Nations brought them food, and they set up shelters. The refugees continue to fight disease and starvation. The girls were placed with families, and Martha lived with a woman named Yar. One day they were told that they would have to leave because the new government was closing the refugee camp.

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FALLEN ANGELS               Richie Perry is a recent high school graduate who gave up dreams of an expensive college education to join the United States Army. An excellent writer, Richie hopes one day to be able to write like the author James Baldwin. In the meantime, he sends money home to support his younger brother and mother. Richie has a strained relationship with his mother, an alcoholic who suffers from depression, and worries about his teenage brother’s safety in the racially tense streets of Harlem.Richie is en route to Vietnam when the book opens. He was trained in Fort Devens, Texas and is being sent with his unit to the conflict he hears is almost over. He meets Army nurse Judy Duncan and his squad mate Harold “Peewee” Gates on the flight. Judy leaves for an Army medical facility and Richie and Peewee are sent to join the Twenty-second replacement company. Richie hears the company will soon be leaving for Hawaii as peace talks are in the works and he talks to another soldier who has been there nine months without seeing any fighting.As time goes on, however, Richie finds himself in the middle of combat and death. His squad mate Jenkins is killed a few weeks into the tour of duty after stepping on a booby trap set by the Americans. On patrol with television crews, Richie’s squad kills a Vietnamese man and claims he is an enemy soldier, though the papers on the man prove otherwise. Richie sees official paperwork from the incident and notices his company’s commander, Captain Stewart, has written three enemy soldiers were killed. It becomes clear to Richie that Captain Stewart is more interested in getting a promotion than he is in sending his soldiers home alive.  

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FALLEN ANGELS               Richie Perry is a recent high school graduate who gave up dreams of an expensive college education to join the United States Army. An excellent writer, Richie hopes one day to be able to write like the author James Baldwin. In the meantime, he sends money home to support his younger brother and mother. Richie has a strained relationship with his mother, an alcoholic who suffers from depression, and worries about his teenage brother’s safety in the racially tense streets of Harlem.Richie is en route to Vietnam when the book opens. He was trained in Fort Devens, Texas and is being sent with his unit to the conflict he hears is almost over. He meets Army nurse Judy Duncan and his squad mate Harold “Peewee” Gates on the flight. Judy leaves for an Army medical facility and Richie and Peewee are sent to join the Twenty-second replacement company. Richie hears the company will soon be leaving for Hawaii as peace talks are in the works and he talks to another soldier who has been there nine months without seeing any fighting.As time goes on, however, Richie finds himself in the middle of combat and death. His squad mate Jenkins is killed a few weeks into the tour of duty after stepping on a booby trap set by the Americans. On patrol with television crews, Richie’s squad kills a Vietnamese man and claims he is an enemy soldier, though the papers on the man prove otherwise. Richie sees official paperwork from the incident and notices his company’s commander, Captain Stewart, has written three enemy soldiers were killed. It becomes clear to Richie that Captain Stewart is more interested in getting a promotion than he is in sending his soldiers home alive.  

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SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH  The story follows the trials and experiences of eighteen year-old Harlem native Robin “Birdy” Perry through the opening months of the Iraq War in 2003.Having seen 9/11 as a teenager, Birdy feels compelled to do something important for his country. So, he joins the U.S. Army. He becomes part of the Civil Affairs unit, dedicated to winning the hearts and minds of Iraqi civilians following combat operations. Birdy’s unit does everything from handing out supplies, to playing soccer with kids, to trying to soothe things over following accidental deaths. He and his teammates feel proud of what they are doing, and because they do their work so well, they are given the task of working with Special Operations forces to secure a cache of improvised explosive device detonators from southern Iraq. The unit is ambushed, during which time Birdy is wounded. Jonesy, his closest Army friend, is killed.  

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SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH  The story follows the trials and experiences of eighteen year-old Harlem native Robin “Birdy” Perry through the opening months of the Iraq War in 2003.Having seen 9/11 as a teenager, Birdy feels compelled to do something important for his country. So, he joins the U.S. Army. He becomes part of the Civil Affairs unit, dedicated to winning the hearts and minds of Iraqi civilians following combat operations. Birdy’s unit does everything from handing out supplies, to playing soccer with kids, to trying to soothe things over following accidental deaths. He and his teammates feel proud of what they are doing, and because they do their work so well, they are given the task of working with Special Operations forces to secure a cache of improvised explosive device detonators from southern Iraq. The unit is ambushed, during which time Birdy is wounded. Jonesy, his closest Army friend, is killed.  

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It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier.

Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't know what to expect or if he'll make it out alive. He just knows that the enemy is everywhere, with ambushes and dangerous traps. But then the two of them collide in the middle of the battle...and choices they make in that single instant will change everything.

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It's the height of World War II. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael, like his parents, is a spy. He joins the Hitler Youth, taking part in their horrific games and book-burning, despising everything they stand for but using his insider knowledge to bring important information back to his parents and the British Secret Service. When Michael is tasked to find out more about Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi mission, things get even more complicated. He must prove his loyalty to the Hitler Youth at all costs -- even if it means risking the lives of his family... and himself.

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Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present.

Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?

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Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. She will soon need to find the courage to stand as a lone voice of justice as tensions mount.

Brilliantly crafted, Wolf Hollow is a haunting tale of America at a crossroads and a time when one girl’s resilience, strength, and compassion help to illuminate the darkest corners of our history.

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Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award.

The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.

Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was.
Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it’s just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to “Leave Well Enough Alone.”
Abilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. It seems that Manifest’s history is full of colorful and shadowy characters—and long-held secrets. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest’s secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town.

Powerful in its simplicity and rich in historical detail, Clare Vanderpool’s debut is a gripping story of loss and redemption.

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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.

When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .

ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .

MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .

All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.

This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home.

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Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories.

Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. But not all promises can be kept . . .