This year’s top 10 historical fiction titles will transport young people from ancient times to 1960s America, with stops in different countries and centuries. All were reviewed in Booklist between April 15, 2014, and April 1, 2015. Black Dove, White Raven. By Elizabeth Wein. 2015. Disney/Hyperion, $17.99 (9781423183105). Gr. 8–11.
Deftly weaving in details about the 1935–36 Italo-Ethiopian War, Wein uses the essays, journal entries, and flight logs of teens Teo and Emilia to help tell the
stunning story of their attempt to flee Ethiopia. (See our starred review on p.00.)
