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  • Witch child

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    By Rees, Celia 

    In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusettes.

  • Wolf Tower

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    By Lee, Tanith 

    When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

    Other books in The Claidi Journals: Wolf Star, Wolf Queen, Wolf Wing

     

  • Z for Zachariah

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    By O'Brien, Robert C.  Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

  • Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

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    By Filipovic, Zlata  Eleven-year-oldn Croation Filipovic's graphic firsthand account of life in embattled Sarajevo. "Provides a vivid description of the ravages of war and its effect upon one young woman."