Best Teen & Young Adult Military Historical Fiction eBooks
"Masterfully crafted". — The Wall Street Journal For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See , Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating—yet unknown—tragedies. Told in alternating points of view and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See , Erik Larson's Dead Wake , and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity , this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff — the greatest maritime disaster in history. "— New York Times Book Review ♦ "Intimate, extraordinary, artfully crafted...brilliant. Praise for Between Shades of Gray : A New York Times Notable Book ♦ A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book ♦ A PW , SLJ , Booklist , and Kirkus Best Book ♦ iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel ♦ A Carnegie Medal and William C. Morris Finalist ♦ A New York Times and International Bestseller ♦ "Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both. Gr 8 Up—With the same lyrical prose, eye for detail, and breath-stopping ability to unfold delicate layers of characterization and theme with skillfully paced revelations, the author of Between Shades of Gray (2011) and Out of the Easy (2013, both Philomel) presents a fictionalized World War II story based on a true tragedy. There's Joana, a pretty and empathetic Lithuanian nurse who harbors a heavy guilt; Florian, a mysterious young man struggling to hide his true identity; Amelia, a pregnant Polish girl; and Alfred, a sociopathic Nazi sailor with an inferiority complex. Along with a fully realized cast of secondary characters who comprise the small band of refugees slowly making their way through the frozen and battle-scarred Prussian countryside, Joana, Florian, and Amelia are determined to get aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military ship evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers at the tail end of the war. Alfred, meanwhile, a low-ranking officer stationed aboard the ship, avoids work by hiding in the toilets, composing imaginary and boastful letters to a girl back home. VERDICT Artfully told and sensitively crafted, Sepetys's exploration of this little-known piece of history will leave readers weeping.—Kiera Parrott, School Library Journal Praise for Salt to the Sea :A #1 New York Times BestsellerAn International BestsellerWinner of the Carnegie MedalFeatured on NPR's Morning Edition "Ruta Sepetys acts as champion of the interstitial people so often ignored — whole populations lost in the cracks of history. In Salt to the Sea the hard truths of her herculean research are tempered with effortless, intimate storytelling, as her warm and human characters breathe new life into one of the world's most terrible and neglected tragedies." “A rich, page-turning story that brings to vivid life a terrifying—and little-known—moment in World War II history.” — Steve Sheinkin , author of Newbery Honor and National Book Award finalist Bomb "Brutal. "— Hypable * "Sepetys excels in shining light on lost chapters of history, and this visceral novel proves a memorable testament to strength and resilience in the face of war and cruelty."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"But more than that, the author has such a deft, confident hand that I could sense the amount of research she did and the respect she has for the survivors and victims of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Sepetys doesn’t overwhelm you with her knowledge, but inserts it subtly, weaving it into the backstories, thoughts, and actions of the characters. By using characters of different nationalities and loyalties, the author is able to show the many sides of Operation Hannibal, when Germany evacuated soldiers and citizens ahead of the Red Army."
"Distracting Florian, however, is the young nurse, Joana, a Lithuanian who is leading a rag tag group to the safety of a ship leaving Germany now that Hitler has deemed it all right in the final months of the war. Finally, there is Alfred, a young sailor in the German navy who "writes" letters in his head to his love, Hannelore, while avoiding work and planning a dazzling future. Though these are the voices we hear, there are so many others involved and each one will wrap themselves around your heart, in particular the Shoe Poet and the Wandering Boy who are assisted in getting on the liner Wilhelm Gustloff along with the others."
"The author did a great job of blending fact & fiction to tell the story of a real life event."
"This war torn (ww11) novel depicting the lives of displaced people trying to get toward some form of safety and home stirs us in a way that contemporary stories would as well.First, the desire is to get toward some means of transport Out of there, even if we don't know where they 're headed."
"The tragic story of Wilhelm Gustloff German civil population evacuation liner, torpedoed by Russian submarine in January of 1945, is told by the author in stream of consciousness mode keeping close to the facts."
"There are numerous stories of WWII from various perspectives, but with each one that is the result of accurate historical research, we learn what it was like to be a part of this conflict."
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will hit movie theaters in November 2013, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. –Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The Book Thief by Markus Zusak follows the life of a girl named Liesel Meminger in Germany during World War II. The majority of the story encompasses Liesel’s journey in Molching with her foster parents, the Hubermanns, where she learns to read, builds connections, steals books (as implied by the title), and lives through the struggles of war. Liesel’s best friend was “permanently hungry.” Liesel and her foster parents also hide a Jewish man named Max in their basement for a share of the story. Zusak brings a more human lense to the people in Germany, and demonstrates that they struggled in the war."
"It's great to read about the love and hope intertwined with such a horrific part of history."
"It was offered on sale so I bought it because I knew I wanted to read it before I saw the movie. I read books on two computers (one is a windows machine and the other is a chrome box), my Kindle paperwhite, and, occasionally, on my Android phone. And really, when I'm reading a book, I don't want to stop and look at videos of the related movie."
"It's written from the perspective of Death about a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany."
"As a World War II story of desperation and the understanding of the atrocities surrounding the characters I felt heavy and then uplifted by the tiniest glimmers of hope."
"This is a very good book, made more relevant to me as I had just visited Dachu, the German prison camp for political prisoners near Munich, this past fall. It is good to see the story through the eyes of a child who loses her father, mother and brother, then is adopted by a German couple living in Munich."
“Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both.”. -- The Washington Post Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. A New York Times Bestseller. An International Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book of 2011. A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book of 2011. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011. The iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel. The #1 Book on the Spring 2011 IndieNext List. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2011. A Booklist Best Book of 2011. A Kirkus Best Book of 2011. 2012 IRA Children’s and Young Adults Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. 2012 Indies Choice Young Adult Book of the Year. A Carnegie Medal Finalist. A William C. Morris Finalist. *Starred Review* Sepetys' first novel offers a harrowing and horrifying account of the forcible relocation of countless Lithuanians in the wake of the Russian invasion of their country in 1939. Lina's great hope is that somehow her father, who has already been arrested by the Soviet secret police, might find and rescue them. Whether or not this will be possible, it is her art that will be her salvation, helping her to retain her identity, her dignity, and her increasingly tenuous hold on hope for the future. Sepetys, the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee, estimates that the Baltic States lost more than one-third of their populations during the Russian genocide. Though many continue to deny this happened, Sepetys' beautifully written and deeply felt novel proves the reality is otherwise.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A lot of us know about the Nazi Holocaust but little about Stalin's holocaust. The Nazi Holocaust deserves every bit of noise it can make!"
"Deeply evocative writing that captures a piece of history of which many outside these nations are unaware."
"An event I didn't even know that had even happened."
"This was an eye opening book for me as I read about the horrors the people of the small Baltic countries endured during the take over of Stalin and Hitler."
"And the really sad thing about the book is that no one ever talks about what happened to these people. People usually talk about the Holocaust which was another tragic sad event that was happening at about the same time."
"The Russians tied people to the front of their tanks and then moved into take villages."
"In her Author's Note Ruta Sepetys explains that in 1939 the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Not long after, the Kremlin drew up lists of people considered anti-Soviet who Sepetys accurately states "would be murdered, sent to prison, or deported into slavery in Siberia. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, military servicemen, writers, business owners, musicians, artists, and even librarians were all considered anti-Soviet and were added to the growing list slated for wholesale genocide. Fortunately for the author's father (and my own parents) they (and their families) were able to escape to refugee camps set up in the American occupied zone of Germany. Packed into railroad cars, starved for food, fresh air, even bathroom facilities these people, like the Jews in many parts of Europe, were stripped of their homes, their possessions, their very lives. Again the author reminds me that "Upon returning in the mid-1950's, the Lithuanians found that Soviets had occupied their homes, were enjoying all of their belongings, and had even assumed their names."
"Excellent book!"
Best Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction eBooks
“Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both.”. -- The Washington Post Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. A New York Times Bestseller. An International Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book of 2011. A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book of 2011. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011. The iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel. The #1 Book on the Spring 2011 IndieNext List. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2011. A Booklist Best Book of 2011. A Kirkus Best Book of 2011. 2012 IRA Children’s and Young Adults Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. 2012 Indies Choice Young Adult Book of the Year. A Carnegie Medal Finalist. A William C. Morris Finalist. *Starred Review* Sepetys' first novel offers a harrowing and horrifying account of the forcible relocation of countless Lithuanians in the wake of the Russian invasion of their country in 1939. Lina's great hope is that somehow her father, who has already been arrested by the Soviet secret police, might find and rescue them. Whether or not this will be possible, it is her art that will be her salvation, helping her to retain her identity, her dignity, and her increasingly tenuous hold on hope for the future. Sepetys, the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee, estimates that the Baltic States lost more than one-third of their populations during the Russian genocide. Though many continue to deny this happened, Sepetys' beautifully written and deeply felt novel proves the reality is otherwise.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A lot of us know about the Nazi Holocaust but little about Stalin's holocaust. The Nazi Holocaust deserves every bit of noise it can make!"
"Deeply evocative writing that captures a piece of history of which many outside these nations are unaware."
"We see events through Lina's eyes-one moment she is safe at home with her family, and the next she is rounded up with others and sent off on a journey that will change her life forever. Not knowing where they are going, when or if they will ever return, and a suitcase filled with their meager belongings, they unwillingly follow their captors directions. The train journey is only the beginning of their torture as they are given barely any food to eat and conditions are hardly liveable for livestock, let alone people. As more people are crammed into the train cars along the way, they must learn to live together in the closed quarters, allowing them to create friendships and relationships that will help them in the months to come."
"This book gives the timeline of a part of the life of Lina, a young girl taken away from her home at a very young age. I enjoyed this book because the main character was a heroine, something that is not always present in young adult literature."
"An event I didn't even know that had even happened."
"This was an eye opening book for me as I read about the horrors the people of the small Baltic countries endured during the take over of Stalin and Hitler."
Best Teen & Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction eBooks
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. –Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I can't talk about the book because I didn't read it."
"It's great to read about the love and hope intertwined with such a horrific part of history."
"It was offered on sale so I bought it because I knew I wanted to read it before I saw the movie. I read books on two computers (one is a windows machine and the other is a chrome box), my Kindle paperwhite, and, occasionally, on my Android phone. And really, when I'm reading a book, I don't want to stop and look at videos of the related movie."
"It's written from the perspective of Death about a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany."
"As a World War II story of desperation and the understanding of the atrocities surrounding the characters I felt heavy and then uplifted by the tiniest glimmers of hope."
"This is a very good book, made more relevant to me as I had just visited Dachu, the German prison camp for political prisoners near Munich, this past fall. It is good to see the story through the eyes of a child who loses her father, mother and brother, then is adopted by a German couple living in Munich."
"This story absolutely has some of the most amazingly descriptive language."
Best Teen & Young Adult Pirate Adventure eBooks
Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo. As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father’s ship. Gr 8 Up—Nix has spent all of her 16 years with her father as a time-traveling pirate aboard a physical ship, navigating into the margins of historical maps to reach his ultimate goal—returning to Honolulu in 1868, the time and place of Nix's birth, to save her mother, who died when Nix was born. History and mythology fans will love this fast-moving ride through time, where mythological maps take Nix and the crew to real places with items and creatures true to the map's design. VERDICT This must-have fantasy adventure will appeal to fans of Rick Riordan's "Kane Chronicles" and Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's "Starbound Trilogy," (both Disney-Hyperion).—Kerry Sutherland, Akron-Summit County Public Library, OH “History and mythology fans will love this fast-moving ride through time, where mythological maps take Nix and the crew to real places with items and creatures true to the map’s design…This must-have fantasy adventure will appeal to fans of Rick Riordan’s ‘Kane Chronicles.’” (School Library Journal (starred review) ). “One of my absolute favourite reads of 2016, Heidi Heilig’s debut captured me completely from the first page. “With time travel, fantasy, Hawaiian history, mythology, cute animals, and a feisty female protagonist, romance and fantasy readers will find much to enjoy.” (Booklist).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I adore maps and mythologies and I am completely enthralled by both the concept and the gorgeous writing behind The Girl From Everywhere. I think what I love most is the use of nautical/oceanic metaphors and similes and how they are worked into everything: the bend of Nix's hair, the floating seeds ... everything. It can be handled in a ham-handed, obvious way and I tend to resent those clumsy efforts, but in Heilig's craft, it appears natural and easy which means there was a lot of work behind it."
"Her use of language was deceptively straightforward, but textured and rich as only the finest of rare things can be, like the silk that Nix's beguiling friend Kashmir, the thief, demands at the dressmakers' shop. The pillows were sewn from scraps of silk, and scattered around the room were wooden statues and stone bowls and bone knives and strings of seeds, tiny treasures that could be slipped into a pocket." Nix is a good friend but can't allow herself to fall in love, as she has lived in suspension between reality and myth, being and nonbeing, for her entire life. Slate's ceaseless, fixated search between times and places for Nix's mother makes him seem like some opium-addicted Captain Ahab looking for the ever-elusive Moby Dick on the high seas. As far as the plot goes, the author knew just how much to tell us, and how much to leave out, letting us use either our deductive powers or our imaginations to fill in the misty areas. There is even one particular twist to the plot that came late in the book, which left me gasping and ruffling back the pages to check whether I could possibly have understood correctly!"
"I love how each book usually has a unique reason for why the time travel can happen and Heidi Heilig's The Girl from Everywhere is no exception. I would've liked a few more descriptions of different parts of the town, but I love what Heidi did with one of the places the characters travel towards the end of the novel (and I'm not saying where because it's a total spoiler). The Girl from Everywhere definitely seemed plot-heavy to me; obviously you can't have a book without one, but I felt more time was devoted to resolving the problems and getting the map Slate wants than to developing the characters."
Best Children's European Historical Fiction
"Masterfully crafted". — The Wall Street Journal For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See , Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating—yet unknown—tragedies. Told in alternating points of view and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See , Erik Larson's Dead Wake , and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity , this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff — the greatest maritime disaster in history. "— New York Times Book Review ♦ "Intimate, extraordinary, artfully crafted...brilliant. Praise for Between Shades of Gray : A New York Times Notable Book ♦ A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book ♦ A PW , SLJ , Booklist , and Kirkus Best Book ♦ iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel ♦ A Carnegie Medal and William C. Morris Finalist ♦ A New York Times and International Bestseller ♦ "Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both. Gr 9 Up—While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known 1945 sinking by Soviet torpedoes of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety. ["Artfully told and sensitively crafted, Sepetys's exploration of this little-known piece of history will leave readers weeping": SLJ 12/15 starred review of the Philomel book. ]—Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC Praise for Salt to the Sea :A #1 New York Times BestsellerAn International BestsellerWinner of the Carnegie MedalFeatured on NPR's Morning Edition "Ruta Sepetys acts as champion of the interstitial people so often ignored — whole populations lost in the cracks of history. "— The Wall Street Journal [Sepetys is] a master of YA fiction…she once again anchors a panoramic view of epic tragedy in perspectives that feel deeply textured and immediate. In Salt to the Sea the hard truths of her herculean research are tempered with effortless, intimate storytelling, as her warm and human characters breathe new life into one of the world's most terrible and neglected tragedies." “A rich, page-turning story that brings to vivid life a terrifying—and little-known—moment in World War II history.” — Steve Sheinkin , author of Newbery Honor and National Book Award finalist Bomb "Brutal. "— Hypable * "Sepetys excels in shining light on lost chapters of history, and this visceral novel proves a memorable testament to strength and resilience in the face of war and cruelty." — Booklist, starred review * "Artfully told and sensitively crafted, Sepetys’s exploration of this little-known piece of history will leave readers weeping."
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"But more than that, the author has such a deft, confident hand that I could sense the amount of research she did and the respect she has for the survivors and victims of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Sepetys doesn’t overwhelm you with her knowledge, but inserts it subtly, weaving it into the backstories, thoughts, and actions of the characters. By using characters of different nationalities and loyalties, the author is able to show the many sides of Operation Hannibal, when Germany evacuated soldiers and citizens ahead of the Red Army."
"From the first page I knew I was not only in the hands of a real craftsman but also an author with je ne sais quoi. Sepetys is an author who handles language as fluidly and masterfully as a five star chef creating brioche from scratch. The structure was a little jarring, but once I got used to it, I decided it gave the whole work a theatrical flavor, as if I were reading a play. The subject matter is a bit intense for YA (and thus must be handled with extra sensitivity) and Sepetys did not hold back in her descriptions of the horrors of war. Not on the scale of Dostoyevsky or Hugo - but the author is young still, and I believe she has great ability to inspire empathy. I am withholding one star for the following reasons: It could have been more tightly edited - especially in the first ten pages when the characters were being introduced. Having the same moments repeated from the viewpoints of each character was boring especially since the new information was intuitive for the reader to begin with. The ending was wobbly and the final impact was lost in the disjointed story line."
"Distracting Florian, however, is the young nurse, Joana, a Lithuanian who is leading a rag tag group to the safety of a ship leaving Germany now that Hitler has deemed it all right in the final months of the war. Finally, there is Alfred, a young sailor in the German navy who "writes" letters in his head to his love, Hannelore, while avoiding work and planning a dazzling future. Though these are the voices we hear, there are so many others involved and each one will wrap themselves around your heart, in particular the Shoe Poet and the Wandering Boy who are assisted in getting on the liner Wilhelm Gustloff along with the others."
Best Teen & Young Adult US Historical Fiction eBooks
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When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. This inventive science fiction adventure asks the dramatic question: what do you do when you’re a normal 16-year-old girl attending a private school in Washington, D.C., you find out that your grandmother is actually a time-traveling historian from the future (the 23rd century, to be precise), and she sends you into the past (the Chicago Exposition in 1893, to be exact) in order to stop your grandfather (also from the future) from changing history by creating a new religion, the Cyrists? Her adventures in trying to stop the cult’s temporal shift take her across alternate time lines and involve her with past and future versions of the people in her life.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"-- “It would be a lot easier to fix the universe if I could dress like Wonder Woman –or Batgirl.”. I enjoyed this novel it was pretty decently paced there was only one chunk in the middle that seemed to drag on a bit too long but the rest of it sailed by especially once Kate actually went into the past. I loved the time travel aspect of this and how they reconciled the different futures and the moral conundrum of what is the right or wrong thing to do which timeline should be restored and why. -- I could see my dark green hair band, vivid against the skin of his wrist as he vanished, looking like a knight carrying his lady’s favor – a scarf or ribbon – into battle. But I mention it because of the insta love and hope that future books in this series don’t dwell on it. Even though I talked about the love thing a lot in my review it really wasn’t overpowering in the book. The time travel story and her grandmother from the future were so interesting along with the shifts in the current time line and the growth of a cult like church who wants to bring about an end of days of sorts was captivating and had my full attention."
"Please read on to know about Timebound by Rysa Walker. What were some of the things I loved about Timebound. The pacing Ms. Walker’s ability to keep the pressure on an across-time hunt whilst building budding relationships amongst family members and potential suitors all the while giving enough descriptive detail to make it feel like we visited the 1893 World’s Fair is nothing short of astonishing. The relationships are tricky enough messing with earlier, future and alternative timeline selves is even trickier. These are some seriously patient, understanding guys who’ll stick with you at all costs; Kiernan’s pretty close to sainthood as well. This book may have been a bit more interesting if the guys were a little less perfect but maybe they were just to offset Mr. Holmes’ (America’s Jack-the-Ripper) unabated, cold-blooded evil."
"But then she started to think about the details. The requisite minutiae that a story about time travel demands."
"An engaging read, with well-developed characters and a twisty plot."
Best Teen & Young Adult Asian Historical Fiction eBooks
This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon . Every night, Minli's father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps the mountain bare, the greedy and mean Magistrate Tiger, and the Old Man of the Moon who holds everyone's destiny. Determined to change her family's fortune, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon, urged on by a talking goldfish who gives her clues to complete her journey. After her mother ridicules what she believes to be a foolish purchase, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon, who, it is told, may impart the true secret to good fortune. Stories, drawn from a rich history of Chinese folktales, weave throughout her narrative, deepening the sense of both the characters and the setting and smoothly furthering the plot.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I just read this book again yesterday, because my daughter borrowed When the Sea Turned to Silver from the library, and I figured out pretty quickly that it would be better if I refreshed my memory on Where the Mountain Meets the Moon first."
"This was a story with underlying themes that older readers will pick up on but younger ones may not initially but as the stories are told by the characters each are intertwined with in each other and woven together very nicely."
"Would make a good bedtime story to read to kids about 6-10, who have longer attention spans for chapter books with minimal pictures."
"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon has questions at the end of the book that I could ask my 7 year old after each chapter. Our 7 year old needed a few reminders on what had happened during previous chapters."
"This book is a family favorite I highly recommend you read this book."
"Purchased this book for my grand niece when she turned 8."
"Even as an adult I could not stop reading the chapters as we follow the characters on this interesting journey."
"A wonderful children's book that my children have highly enjoyed."
Best Teen & Young Adult Medieval Fiction eBooks
After the chaos of the Wizard Wars a thousand years ago, the people turned their backs on magic. A young girl's affection for him forces her to pick up the sword. In the east, a tortured prisoner vows to escape the White Tower. The first installment in the Aldoran Chronicles, a new epic fantasy saga filled with magic and monsters, sword and sorcery, heroes, villains, and those in between. "Diverse and epic, The White Tower is an example of fantasy in its purest form."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The major players are engaging, you learn to like or dislike the characters for who and what they are, not how the author has written them. Land and Cityscapes are well thought out, making it easy to imagine where these characters are, from dank sewers to gorgeous meadows. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..." Little bit of back cover synopsis. I strongly recommend this book and with something only vaguely resembling patience await the next installment of The Aldoran Chronicles. Full disclosure, I have been a reader since the beta."
"I immensely enjoyed The White Tower as it kept me turning the pages wondering what would happen next."
"Overall the story was very good and very well written."
"Mr. Wisehart has created a cast of characters that each has their own story."
"I wasn't expecting too much, just a hold me over but I was pleasantly surprised by a solid story that is well thought out and very well written."
"A book that looks very long turns out to be not half long enough."
"All of the characters are easy to identify and the chapter headings help to set expectations."
"There's so many side stories here that I'll be happy to see where everyone ends up in the end..."
Best Teen & Young Adult Ancient Civilization Fiction eBooks
#1 New York Times Bestseller A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. A quick moving plot and sassy, believable dialogue make this a compelling and enjoyable mystery, with just the right amount of romance and magic. Intimacy is dealt with in a straightforward way, without graphic details, and a subtle message of strength is portrayed through the brave independence of the protagonist. VERDICT This well-written mystery will be a surefire hit with teens.—Sunnie Lovelace, Wallingford Public Library, CT Praise for "The Wrath and the Dawn" #4 on the Summer 2015 Kids' Indie Next ListAn Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2015 Young AdultA New York Public Library Best Book for Teens for 2015 A "Seventeen Magazine "Best Book of 2015A YALSA 2016 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick "Renee Ahdieh's lush debut novel, "The Wrath and the Dawn," is a suspenseful and beautiful reimagining of "The Arabian Nights," with an edge. Lushly imagined and powerfully characterized, it s a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and a simmering revolution, this is a carefully constructed narrative of uncertain loyalties, searing romance, and subtle magic in a harsh desert city. Don t be surprised if the pages melt away and you find yourself racing through warm, golden sands or drinking spiced wine in cool marble courtyards. You will want to hear, taste, and touch everything.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As far as Khalid, he's on par with Christian Grey in the fact that he's supposed to be smoking hot but is about as attractive on the inside as a molding onion. For the first 3/4 of the book, his bland personality simply bored me, but by the last fourth I was screaming at him every time I turned a page. Every single person that dies or gets hurt is a result of Khalid's selfish nature and self loathing, and he doesn't even care enough to even attempt to make himself likable in any sort of way, just goes around the palace with a woe-is-me attitude even though everyone else is suffering way more because of his actions. I don't get what the big craze is these days about "tortured, haunted" leading males in fiction who hurt women because they're "damaged." For me, it's really unattractive to see a guy waltzing around hurting people because somebody did him wrong in the past, and a woman chasing after him trying to tame the monster. The most we know about her is that she can shoot a bow, she's angry all the time, and that she's trying to kill the guy who murdered her best friend, which she epically fails at for no reason because...I don't know...he's hot? There are so, SO many romantic and beautifully detailed scenes that would've stolen my breath away IF I could stop wishing the people I was reading about would just die already, and that's what really makes me upset."
"Or, I should say, a retelling of the Arabian Nights' frame story, of a brave young woman who volunteers to be the bride of a serial killer ruler who murders his new brides the morning after their wedding night. In "The Wrath and the Dawn", the nesting stories that the original is famous for take a back seat to the main story, a romance between the latest bride Sharzad, and the killer Caliph Khalid. There is a convoluted explanation for Khalid's mass murder spree which comes out late in the novel, but the main character's early attraction to a man who murdered her best friend (and many other young women) left a bad taste in my mouth."
"I knew from reading reviews that the storytelling would be beautiful and that the romance was written in an admirably eloquent style and at times just plain swoon-worthy (of course that’s where the conflict comes in with the plot and its questions on whether Khalid is actually a monster or not). Khalid was an interesting male lead with some great lines but he still feels like a mysterious shell (hmmm)."