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|  | The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Two hundred and fifty years in the life of an African-American family, from the slavery era up to the present. The story begins when 11-year-old Muhammad Bilal is kidnapped from his home in West Africa, transported to the U.S. on a slave ship, and sold to the owner of a planation in South Carolina. In the generations that follow, Muhammad's descendents are drawn by their dreams and the circumstances of their lives to a small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.This novel concentrates on five of those descendents: Lizzy in 1864, Elijah in 1900; Luvenia in 1930, Tommy in 1964, and Malcolm in 1994. AUTHOR: Walter Dean Myers
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | We Are Patriots by Kristiana Gregory
Description not available.In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Kristiana Gregory
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | People of the Lightning by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
From the bestselling authors of Peoples of the Lakes comes a new novel of the first North Americans. An adventure saga imbued with a wealth of historical detail . . . centers around a totemic mask with great evil powers .-- Publishers Weekly. AUTHOR: Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | A True Story Based on Lies by Jennifer Clement
Description not available.When a sexual relationship between Leonora, a servant in the home of the wealthy O'Connor family, and her master results in the birth of a child, that child, Aura Olivia, is brought up as a daughter of the house, in a story of class discrimination, male oppression, and female servitude set against the backdrop of contemporary Mexico. AUTHOR: Jennifer Clement
PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | 101 Ways by Mako Yoshikawa
A generation-spanning story about a Japanese graduate student in New York City, her mother who was abandoned by her husband long ago, and her widowed grandmother, a former geisha. AUTHOR: Mako Yoshikawa
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | If I Lived in Germany by John Knorr, Rosanne Knorr
Description not available.Verses describe family life, school, and other aspects of everyday life in Germany, and introduce basic words and phrases AUTHOR: John Knorr, Rosanne Knorr
PUBLISHER: Longstreet Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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