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Series
The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron - now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick!
One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...
It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in
...3) Rook
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In the Sunken City that was once Paris the guillotine rules again, while Sophia Bellamy from the Commonwealth across the Channel Sea tries to rescue as many of the revolution's victims as she can smuggle out, and some prisoners disappear from their cells, with a red-tipped rook feather left in their place--but who is the mysterious Red Rook and where does Sophia's wealthy fiance,́ René Hasard, fit in?
4) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, becauseher identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
7) The Knowing
Author
Series
The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Samara lives underground and is safe from the Forgetting which afflicts those in the city of Canaan above her, but she is plagued by her memory of the horrors she has seen and is determined to seek answers in the cursed city.
8) Artifice
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Today's episode is an interview Jill did with Sharon Cameron about her new book The Light in Hidden Places. This historical fiction novel tells the remarkable story of Stefania Podgórska, who hid several Jews in her Nazi-occupied home. For the interview, Sharon and Jill were joined by Stefania's son, Ed.