The Star That Always Stays
By: Anna Rose Johnson
4.08
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule…
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1. The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity
By: Meg Meeker
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The pressure on women today has pushed many American mothers to the breaking point. It feels as if … read more
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- audiobook
2. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
3. The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of… read more
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- family
- middle grade
- fiction
- audiobook
4. The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.29
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger siblings try to keep their family from ever facin… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
"There was a brief pause. Then Laney pointed a finger at Oliver and exclaimed, 'You want to keep them! 'No!' said Mama and Papa. 'I'm just saying,' Oliver said, looking at the two cats, who were stret…"-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)
5. Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1)
By: Sarah Arthur
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An American teenager discovers that her estranged English grandmother was once a queen in another w… read more
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- christian fiction
- christian
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Nothing Else But Miracles
By: Kate Albus
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
7. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
8. The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
9. The Star That Always Stays
By: Anna Rose Johnson
4.08
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule… read more
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- christian fiction
- christian
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- indigenous
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
10. Iceberg
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg
11. The Labors of Hercules Beal
By: Gary D. Schmidt
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
12. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
13. Beneath the Swirling Sky (The Restorationists, #1)
By: Carolyn Leiloglou
4.18
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
A house full of paintings, a missing sister, and a family secret send a boy and his cousin into a w… read more
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- christian fiction
- christian
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
14. We Still Belong
By: Christine Day
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more
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- middle grade
- indigenous
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
15. Hope in the Valley
By: Mitali Perkins
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Can Pandita weave hope from the past into the present to heal herself, her family, and the future o… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Dare (The Blades of Acktar, #1)
By: Tricia Mingerink
4.42
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Courage could cost him everything. Third Blade Leith Torren never questions his orders or his l… read more
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- fiction
- christian fiction
- christian
- young adult
"It takes more courage to help someone who doesn't deserve it than someone who does."-Tricia Mingerink, Dare (The Blades of Acktar, #1)
"We're fighting to worship God freely and share His Gospel freely. If we fight only to save our lives, then we're missing our true cause."-Tricia Mingerink, Dare (The Blades of Acktar, #1)
17. Honey Butter
By: Millie Florence
4.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everlasting Blue, Slam Dunk Orange Dragon Fruit Pink… Seven-year-old Jamie Johnson is obsessed w… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
"Time has a way of changing our minds."-Millie Florence, Honey Butter
"Books, I think, are what magic smells like."-Millie Florence, Honey Butter
"It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate."-Millie Florence, Honey Butter
"There are always adventures everywhere, it just takes an adventurer to see them."-Millie Florence, Honey Butter
18. Born of Gilded Mountains
By: Amanda Dykes
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more
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- christian fiction
- christian
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
19. Voices of the Future: Stories of Family and Fearlessness
By: The Author Conservatory
4.75
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the next generation of storytellers…This inaugural edition of Voices of the Future weaves … read more
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- family
- christian
- young adult
20. Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame)
By: Kara Swanson
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Can Mara survive in a world where the fire in her veins is worth killing for? In a frozen waste… read more
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- fiction
- christian fiction
- christian
- young adult
21. We Own the Sky
By: Rodman Philbrick
3.82
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling historical adventure by the master of adventure himself, Rodman Philbrick. It's Maine, … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
"It was a time of astonishing courage, a time of betrayal and disaster […] when girls and boys thought nothing of stepping into the clear blue sky."-Rodman Philbrick, We Own the Sky
