Mar 25
Dragon Assassin by Arthur Slade - 7/10
As a one-eyed assassin, Carmen has a much harder time with her studies than any of her classmates. Between a scheming brother, an angry...
Mar 10
From Far Away by Robert Munsch and Saossan Askar - 9/10
Saussan, a grade two student living in Canada, tells of her experience fleeing war in Lebanon and adjusting to life in a new country. AGE...
Feb 28
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo - 9/10
When a girl washes up in the Isles of Scilly, the Wheatcroft family takes her in as their own. The girl cannot speak, leaving the...
Jan 3
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy 8/10
Moving to England seemed like the end of the world for Janie. Making new friends in a new city soon becomes the least of her worries,...
May 28, 2023
Flying Over Water by Shannon Hitchcock and N. H. Senzai - 9/10
Noura's family is on their way to start a new life in America. They are refugees from Syria and, though they have left the war behind,...
Oct 3, 2022
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
Ellen has always wanted nothing more than to learn the domestic arts of cooking and cleaning, and to care for others. When she lands a...
May 1, 2022
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
A young girl named Hanako is forced to relocate with her family to Japan after World War II. With the journey through Hiroshima to her...
Feb 3, 2022
Escape from Aleppo by N. H. Senzai
It is 2013 and Syria is falling apart. A young girl named Nadia lives in Aleppo, a large Syrian city, and she is right in the centre of...
Jun 15, 2021
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 8/10
Annemarie Johansen is living in Denmark in the middle of the second world war. Her best friend, Ellen, is Jewish, and soon it becomes...
Feb 15, 2021
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibboston
The second world war is picking up speed in Tally's little town in England. Many children are being sent away from their families for...
Feb 7, 2021
Rebelwing by Andrea Tang
The three countries that once made up North America are now one - crammed into a huge city where every move of every citizen is being...
Jan 29, 2021
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
After a mysterious man turns up dead in eleven year-old Flavia de Luce's cucumber patch, she takes it upon herself to solve the case....
