Blade of secrets [Bladesmith duology Volume: 1]by Levenseller, Tricia 

Paperback(Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2022)

BTSB #: 566361 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 650 HL

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Magic - Fiction Blacksmiths - Fiction Weapons - Fiction Social phobia - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Fantasy fiction

Summary: Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. Then Ziva receives a commission from a powerful warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims secrets. A sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. When Ziva learns of the warlord's intentions to use the weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees.

Never forgotten by McKissack, Pat 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011)

BTSB #: 628127 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 6.4 6-8 Lexile: 710 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Slavery - Fiction Blacksmiths - Fiction Black people - Mali - Fiction

Summary: In West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Four Elements is captured and taken to America as a slave.