Flight : a novel of a daring escape during World War II by Harbour, Vanessa 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2021)

BTSB #: 418738 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 550

Genres: Historical Fiction Animals

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Horses - Fiction National Socialists - Fiction Refugees - Fiction

Summary: When Nazis fail to find Jakob, a Jewish boy, as he hides on the farm of his guardian, Herr Engel, they kill Jakob's favorite horse before leaving. Knowing they are no longer safe there, Jakob, Herr Engel, and orphan Roma girl, Kizzy, lead a group of twelve horses from the farm across mountains to escape Nazis during WWII.

Flight : a novel of a daring escape during World War II by Harbour, Vanessa 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2021)

BTSB #: P08863 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Animals

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Horses - Fiction National Socialists - Fiction Refugees - Fiction

Summary: When Nazis fail to find Jakob, a Jewish boy, as he hides on the farm of his guardian, Herr Engel, they kill Jakob's favorite horse before leaving. Knowing they are no longer safe there, Jakob, Herr Engel, and orphan Roma girl, Kizzy, lead a group of twelve horses from the farm across mountains to escape Nazis during WWII.

Jewel of the Kalderash [Kronos chronicles Volume: bk. 3]by Rutkoski, Marie 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011)

BTSB #: 773630 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.2 6-8 Lexile: 680

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Magic - Fiction Kings and rulers - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Fantasy fiction

Summary: Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their friends become entangled in the competition for the Roma crown, then set out for Prague in hopes of finally finding a cure for Petra's father.

Lightning queen by Resau, Laura 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P02861 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Mixtec Indians - Fiction Indians of Mexico - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Mexico - Fiction

Summary: On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.

Lizzie and the lost baby by Blackford, Cheryl 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)

BTSB #: 123632 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG

Genres:

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Evacuation of civilians - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - England - Yorkshire - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Abandoned children - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Yorkshire (England) - History|y20th century - Fiction Great Britain - History|yGeorge VI, 1936-1952 - Fiction

Summary: Evacuated to a remote Yorkshire valley during World War II, a homesick ten-year-old English girl discovers an abandoned baby and befriends a gypsy boy, despite local prejudice.

Miss Emily by Muten, Burleigh 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 665723 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Circus - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: When an invitation to join Miss Emily in the garden appears, Mattie, Ned, Sally, and Mac know they're in for some fun because Miss Emily--Emily Dickinson to the rest of us--always has a surprise in store for her young friends.

Nine open arms by Lindelauf, Benny 

BTSB Prebound(Enchanted Lion Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 574408 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
RC: 3.8 6-8 Lexile: 660

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Netherlands - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Romanies - Fiction Netherlands - History|yWilhelmina, 1898-1948 - Fiction Netherlands - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.