All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

"My name is Matt Pin

and her name, I remember,
is Phang My.

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Abstract: Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.

Publisher: Scholastic Press; 220 pages

The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

"We lived in a perfect stucco house, just off the sparkly Pacific, with a lime tree in the backyard and pink and yellow roses gone wild around a picket fence."

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Abstract: After her father is sent to jail, eleven-year-old Groovy Robinson must decide if she can forgive the failings of someone she loves.

Publisher: Harper Collins; 277 pages

Almost Astronauts - 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

"July 1999

One woman stands alone, off to the side of the crowd."

Contents include: "T minus thirty-eight years" -- "I jumped at the offer" -- "Not a meaningful test!" -- "Mommy's going to the moon!" -- "It was too good to be true" -- "Regret to advise" -- "Let's stop this now!" -- "Jerrie Cobb isn't running this program. I am!" -- "The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes" -- "NASA never had any intention of putting those women in space" -- "We want to see a woman driving the bus, not sitting in the back" -- "I am living proof that dreams do come true."

Candlewick Press; 133 pages

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson

"It looked like a bad day for photographers."

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Note to the Reader: "This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic. In fact, all text appearing within quotation marks comes from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books, and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1865, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have been made up." — James Swanson

Publisher: Scholastic Press; 196 pages

Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

"Dear Lili,

As you know, in a few days I'm going to be twelve."

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Abstract: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; 136 pages

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Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry

"Grandpa frowns when he plays chess, like he does when he prays."

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Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.

Publisher: Random House; 161 pages