Banks, Lynne Reid

BROKEN BRIDGE sequel to ONE MORE RIVER The murder of 14-year-old Glen Shelby, soon after his arrival in Israel to visit his father'­s family, has a dramatic effect on the lives of his relatives, the other members of their kibbutz, and the Arabs responsible for his death. 1992 Jerusalem.

1993

317 p.

Banks, Lynne Reid

ONE MORE RIVER The murder of 14-year-old Glen Shelby, soon after his arrival in Israel to visit his father'­s family, has a dramatic effect on the lives of his relatives, the other members of their kibbutz, and the Arabs responsible for his death. 1992 Jerusalem.

1993

317 p.

Griffin, Peni

SWITCHING WELL Two 12-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.

1993

280 p.

Hicyilmaz, Gaye

SMILING FOR STRANGERS During the war, 14-year-old Nina flees from her village in Yugoslavia, armed only with some letters and a photograph, to search for an old friend of her mother's in England.

2000

152 P.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Tom

FAMILIES The 1900's The Aldrich, Vivanti, and Dixon families gather to celebrate Nell and Rocco's one hundredth birthdays as the new century dawns and the specter of the Y2K bug threatens.

2002

148 p.

Kehert, Peg

THE BLIZZARD DISASTER Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler have teleported themselves back to Minnesota to learn about the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. But their interest in the storm of the century turns to horror. The Instant Commuter is frozen! Minnesota.

1998

137 P.

Lorbiecki, Marybeth

MY PALACE OF LEAVES IN SARAJEVO In 1991, 10-year-old Nadja begins writing to her cousin in Minnesota, and over the next four years her letters reveal the horrors of war in this former republic of Yugoslavia, while her cousin's letters give Nadja and her family some hope.

1997

45 p.

Mead, Alice

ADEM'S CROSS Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes the life forever of the 13-year-old Adem.

1996

131 p.

Paulsen, Gary

THE RIFLE A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

1999

105 p.

Ruby, Lois

STEAL AWAY HOME In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.

1994

192 P.

Temple, Frances

TONIGHT, BY SEA 1993. As governmental brutality and poverty become unbearable, Paulie joins with others in her small Haitian village to help her uncle secretly build a boat they will use to try to escape to the United States.

1995

143 P.

Westall, Robert

GULF Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle with an apparent mental illness or a mystery of nature which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.

1992

98 p.