Category Archives: Historical
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
“Rules and Things Number 29: When You Wake Up and Don’t Know for Sure Where You’re At and There’s a Bunch of People Standing Around You, It’s Best to Pretend You’re Still Asleep Until You Can Figure Out What’s Going … Continue reading
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
“He wished that he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you’d be able … Continue reading
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
“In the storybooks she’d read in school, everyone got to wake up at the prince’s kiss. But in Gemma’s version, the implication was that they all still slept under the wicked fairy’s sentence of death. Death by sleep.” Becca’s grandmother, … Continue reading
Filed under Fantasy, GLBT, Historical, Mystery, Mythopoeic Award, YA Lit
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
“The war-if there ever was one-was over, but the curfew was still in effect. Every evening at the stroke of six, the lights in every house and every street were extinguished. And when night fell, the seven hills of Kampala … Continue reading
Filed under ALA/YALSA Best Book, Fiction, Historical, YA Lit
