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DeWoskin, Rachel. Blind. At age 15, Emma is blinded in a freak accident when she is struck by a defective bottle rocket so instead of being an average freshman girl, her life revolves around her white cane. Once she was the invisible child in a large family; now everyone stares. With the suicide of a classmate, Emma must decide that her life is worthwhile after all.  Language.

Recommendations from Ann Pechacek, Head YA Librarian at Worthington’s Northwest Library and committee member of the 2016 Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:

Auxier, Jonathan. Night Garden: A Scary Story. Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house. Follow-up to Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.  Victorian ghost story.

Blankman, Anne. Prisoner of Night and Fog. In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter. Historical fiction.

Fleming, Candace. The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia. He was Tsar Nicholas II of Russia: the wealthiest monarch in the world, who ruled over 130 million people and one-sixth of the earth's land surface, yet turned a blind eye to the abject poverty of his subjects. She was Empress Alexandra: stern, reclusive, and painfully shy, a deeply religious woman obsessed with the corrupt mystic Rasputin. Their daughters were the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia: completely isolated and immature, girls who wore identical white dresses and often signed joint letters as OTMA, the initials of their first names. Their only son was Tsarevich Alexei: youngest of the Romanovs, heir to the throne, a hemophiliac whose debilitating illness was kept secret from the rest of the world. In a world of starving peasant farmers, the factory workers toiling long hours for little pay, and the disillusioned soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I, follow the Romanovs from opulent upbringings, to the crumbling of their massive empire, and finally to their tragic murders. Non-fiction.

Portes, Andrea. Anatomy of a Misfit. The third most popular girl in school's choice between the hottest boy in town and a lonely but romantic misfit ends in tragedy and self-realization.

Whaley, John Corey. Noggin. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 978-1442458727. After dying of cancer at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new Travis must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships. Science fiction.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming.  This is the moving story of Woodson’s childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.