Sonya Hartnett
1) Golden boys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
3) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their Uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find two mysterious boys hiding in the ruins of a nearby castle, an extraordinary adventure begins. "--publishers web site.
7) Butterfly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.