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Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
A coming of age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Fallen Angels is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only har...(more)

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Fever 1793

By Laurie Halse Anderson
On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her f...

Nick of Time

By Ted Bell
The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his sister, Kate, begin gathering vital in...

The Boy In the Striped Paja...

By John Boyne
Berlin 1942When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discov...

A Great and Terrible Beauty...

By Libba Bray
A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfr...