Contemporary Classics

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
F SHAFFER
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey Island--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
By Nancy E. Turner
F TURNER
This is the fictionalized diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 17, who goes from New Mexico to Texas and back, protecting her family with her rifle. She recounts the trials and heartache of settling the Arizona Territory but also the joys of life that helped her to keep moving forward.

The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
F ZUSAK
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

The Wednesday Wars
By Gary Schmidt
YAF SCHMIDT
Seventh-grader, Holling Hoodhood, is convinced his teacher hates him. During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.