"A PLACE TO BELONG" by CYNTHIA KADOHATA

12 year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

"THE GLASS TOWN GAME" by CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Whisked away to a magical historical land of their own invention as they are about to depart for boarding school, sisters Charlotte and Emily Brontë find themselves fighting Napoleon to obtain a potion that raises the dead, a situation that is complicated by the abduction of their siblings, Anne and Branwell.

"THE BOGGART" by SUSAN COOPER

After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes

"THE LINE TENDER" by KATE ALLEN

Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier. 

"WHEN YOU REACH ME" by REBECCA STEAD

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

"HOUSE OF DREAMS" by LIZ ROSENBERG

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of "Anne of Green Gables."

"THE BREADWINNER" by DEBORAH ELLIS

oung Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.

"CAST AWAY: POEMS FOR OUR TIME" by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees

"HALFWAY NORMAL" by BARBARA DEE

"THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN" by PHILIPPA PEARCE