New Historical Fiction titles added to the C.B. West collection include:

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS    by John Boyne
    Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. 2/08

A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY        by Libba Bray
    After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. 1/08

A SONG FOR SUMMER    by Eva Ibbotson
    Suffragists raise Ellen, who travels to Austria to transform a boarding school and meets Marek, a school handyman and composer, but the war separates them. 1/08

A SMALL WHITE SCAR    by K. A. Nuzum
    Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and joins the journey. 11/07

RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLE        by Donald McCaig    
(sequel to Margaret Mitchells' Gone With The Wind)
    Chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett Butler and the people who shaped his world--his unyielding father Langston, best friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the passionate Scarlett O'Hara. 11/07

SAMURAI SHORTSTOP        by Alan Gratz                        (award winner)
    While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father. 4/07

OVER A THOUSAND HILLS I WALK WITH YOU    by Hanna Jansen
    Based on a true story.  Jeanne, the only member of her family not murdered in the Rwandan genocide, struggles to start a new life without her family while coping with the violent memories that haunt her. 4/07

THE YEAR THE GYPSIES CAME        by Linzi Glass
    In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a Zulu servant and in her friendship with a young houseguest who has an equally troubled family.  4/07

NEW BOY        by Julian Houston
    As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school in the 1950s, Rob Garrett, a young black man, is witness to the persecution of other students and wonders about the growing civil rights movement back home in Virginia. 4/07

COPPER SUN    by Sharon Draper                             (award winner)
    Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.  4/07