Each Sunday Rachel and her family go to her grandmother Oma’s for dinner. After the “hugs and hellos” and “chicken and challah,” Rachel and Oma always look at Oma’s photo albums. The photos and stories that tell of Oma’s life in Germany before coming to America are part of the weekly ritual. But this Sunday is different. This Sunday, Oma doesn’t close the album where she usually does. “ 'I think you are old enough to hear the rest of the story now,’ she says, and pulls me closer.” Oma tells of what happened when the Nazis came into power in Germany. Of how she and her family members began to fear for their safety, and their lives. Of how some fled and others were not able to. Of how some survived, and others did not. A dramatically different and highly personal book from author/artist Marisabina Russo is based on Russo’s own family history: she was the little girl in the story. Russo uses muted tones to recreate some of her family photographs as the album pictures in the story. Some of those actual photographs are reproduced on the endpapers of an affecting picture book that is told with both honesty and the restraint required in covering this topic for younger children. (Ages 7–10)

Shelby is nervous to start her senior year after spending the whole summer away from home. After all, it's hard to be carefree when you're trying to protect a secret.

Shelby was in a devastating car accident, and everyone in town thinks that she was undergoing more physical therapy in Denver. Instead, Shelby's mother enrolled her in a clinical program to stop the panic attacks that started after the crash. The treatment erased Shelby's memory of the accident, but she can't help feeling as if a piece of herself is missing, that the treatment took more than the doctors claimed.

So when Shelby starts hallucinating a boy with dark and mysterious eyes, she knows it must be a side-effect of the clinical program. Except you can't kiss hallucinations. And this boy insists that they know each other and are in love...