Island's End by Padma Venkatraman

"My dream begins like all the others I have had about the spirits."

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A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.

G.P. Putnam's Sons; 228 pages

Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider by Jean Fritz

"Alexander Hamilton should have been born in his grandfather's fogbound castle on the west coast of Scotland, the same castle where his father, James, had been born, along with James's three older brothers."

Summary: Biography of America's first Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Includes bibliographical references and index.


G.P. Putnam's Sons; 144 pages

Palace Beautiful by Sarah DeFord Williams

"My sister Zuzu says no one can remember the day they were born, but I do."

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After her move in 1985 to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group, 232 pages