Magda, a young woman of privilege, is drawn into unexpected danger when she joins the underground struggle against the government of Uruguay.

This middle grade mystery adventure, told in a unique format including diary entries, maps and photos, takes readers along on the harrowing journeys of two twelve-year-old siblings, separated just before the Nazi siege of their city and each desperate to reunite with one another. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible conflict rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the destruction in an effort to be reunited. Their chances are slim, but they never lose hope. In an original format--using the kids' diary entries, with historical photos, maps, and drawings throughout, this fictionalized account of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, this heart-stopping story of danger, courage and bravery emphasizes the power of truth and what it means to be a hero.

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When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival. Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl’s worst nightmare. But then Keelie starts seeing fairies and uncovers her connection to a community of elves.

Isabel Keating flees 18th century Ireland disguised as a man after accidentally killing her abusive husband. She boards a ship bound for South America and there joins forces with the ship's owner and a Jesuit priest devoted to saving native tribes from slavery. Their partnership not only affects their lives but the future of the Spanish colonies.

The Book of Thorns is the first book in The Tree of Life series following Dorian, an exiled legionnaire, and Allyse, a lady in the Airthan court who has a taste for war, as a mysterious force discovers the existence of the Tree of Life. A chain of events ensues that will force the characters to decide whether to defend or destroy the tree. Thorns is the beginning of their journey through Airtha and the surrounding countries, sending the two in a descent into the darkness of their world and themselves, and must overcome their own demons to save the Tree of Life, or see the world to oblivion. Interweaving plots of tragedy and betrayal, love and hate, truth and lies, fear and love, leave the fate of all life in the hands of a few as they unknowingly head down the path that will place their greatest fears and desires in front of them. Though the tree is beautiful, it still has thorns.

The Dark Side of Memory examines the largely unknown history of the state sponsored kidnapping of children in Uruguay and Argentina during the Cold War. The author interviewed parents, family members, and the children (now adults) for first person accounts detailing the circumstances of the kidnappings and the illegal adoption of newborns from the torture centers where they were born. Mothers and grandmothers, often involved in decades-long searches for their missing children and grandchildren, shared their determined and courageous confrontations with the kidnappers and with the governments and military forces that protected them.

From The Ammonite Violin, in which a collector achieves the pinnacle of his obsession, and a musician discovers the true power of her craft, to the story of a girl who loves the rat king and holds in her care the whistle the rats used to create the world, Kiernan's stories give us a side of timeless scenarios that have usually been left unspoken.