Calico Girl by Nolen, Jerdine 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 678691 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 720

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction

Summary: Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day.

Flying the dragon by Lorenzi, Natalie Dias 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2012)

BTSB #: 587692 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Japanese Americans - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Moving fiction Cousins - Fiction Kites - Fiction

Summary: When Skye's cousin Hiroshi & his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings. Will flying the dragon kite bring them together?

Girl in the locked room : a ghost story by Hahn, Mary Downing 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2018)

BTSB #: 410565 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 650 HL F&P: X

Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Extrasensory perception - Fiction Fate and fatalism - Fiction Haunted houses - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Virginia - Fiction

Summary: Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.

Girl in the locked room : a ghost story by Hahn, Mary Downing 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P06140 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Extrasensory perception - Fiction Fate and fatalism - Fiction Haunted houses - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Virginia - Fiction

Summary: Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.

Not so pure and simple by Giles, Lamar 

Paperback(HarperTeen, 2020)

BTSB #: 379233 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 4.9 UG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Christian life - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Family life - Virginia - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - Fiction

Summary: High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera.

Perfect place by Harris, Teresa E. 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2014)

BTSB #: 421638 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 680

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Home - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Great-aunts - Fiction Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Moving - Fiction Virginia - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.