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Alice Notley
A long sequence of interconnected poems in which self-observation, anger, dream diary, and urban life intersect. It explores the experience of living in Paris as a woman and as a poet through language that is sharp yet humorous.
Arthur Ransome
The Swallows and Amazons children head into a moorland summer of gold prospecting and homing pigeons. The novel centers on independence in nature and the teamwork that grows out of shared adventure.
Naguib Mahfouz, William H. Maynard, Sabry Hafez
An epic trilogy tracing family life and social change in modern Cairo.
Beverley Naidoo
The Other Side of Truth follows siblings fleeing a corrupt regime after their mother is killed, carrying the truth with them.
David Almond
A boy who is coping with family crisis meets the mysterious Skellig in an abandoned garage and begins to learn about friendship, recovery, and the meaning of life.
Margaret MacMillan
A history of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the compromises that shaped the postwar world.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Seen through the eyes of a boy raised in privilege, the novel traces the contradictions and class consciousness of upper-class Peruvian society. Humor and irony let an innocent gaze expose the imbalances of the adult world.
Phil Stong, Phil Strong, Kurt Wiese
This humorous children’s story, based on a true incident, follows a small northern town after a moose wanders in and refuses to leave. The boys’ efforts to cope with the visitor give the book its warmth and charm.
LeAnne Howe
A novel that links Choctaw history and a modern crime through a circular sense of time, family memory, and community power.
Christian Bok
An experimental work of constraint poetry that assigns one chapter to each of the five vowels. Drawing on Oulipo, it turns linguistic restriction into play and craft, pushing the possibilities of English to an extreme.
Mildred D. Taylor, Max Ginsburg
The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows.
Rhys Bowen
Fleeing a false accusation of murder in Ireland, Molly Murphy becomes involved in another murder case when the man who was harrassing her on the boat to America turns up dead also.