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All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson

Sage was looking forward to spending her 13th birthday with her best friend, until tragedy struck. When her best friend is killed, Sage struggles to have the energy to move on with her own life. How can she, after she has suffered such a profound horrible loss? And even other students in her grief group at school don't understand what it is like to have a person in your life one moment and then gone the next - well, at least not all of them understand it. Sage wrestles with the question of which loss is greater and can she really find the courage to live the life she wants, without her friend.

Recommended for grades 6th and up.

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How the Ghost Army Hoodwinked Hitler by Rebecca Siegel

This is the incredible story of how one unit was able to fool the German army during World War II and possibly help save thousands of lives. Because it was a secret army, it is hard to know their true impact, but reading this book will make you realize how there were many different fronts on which the war was fought.

Recommended for grades 6 and up.

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Gaslit by Megan Davidhiszar

Ella is facing a huge medical diagnosis. She found out that the migraines she has been having that are just debilitating are not caused by stress, or diet, but by a brain tumor. Being in high school and finding out you might have a brain tumor that could kill you is not something anyone wants to hear.

But Ella is trying her best to block it out and so she volunteers on New Year’s Eve to babysit for her little cousin, Joey, so her aunt can go check on her sick boyfriend, and Ella has had to cancel her own plans due to a wicked migraine, so she figures why not? When Ella gets to her aunt’s house though, she finds everyone passed out and the smell of gas – the kind that can kill you! Ella tries her best to save everyone, but she isn’t able to. Now, she is trying to figure out what really happened that night, and are other people telling her the truth, or is her mind playing tricks…on her?

Recommended for grades 7 and up.

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