The school year is flying by, and we’re still reading some great books! Did you enjoy October’s selection? Let us know!

And here’s the November selection:

When eleven-year-old Luke runs off from the only home he’s ever known, he hopes to join up with some Union soldiers. He wants to fight for freedom. But instead he finds nine-year-old Daylily, scared and alone, lost in the woods. Luke immediately starts to feel responsible for her. And when he finds another child, seven-year-old Caswell, the white son of a plantation owner, who is also lost, Luke’s dream of fighting for freedom feels farther and farther away.

Luke only knows they must head North. It’s getting colder and the woods are a dangerous, harrowing place to be. There’s always the sound of gunfire in the distance, and to survive, they even have to resort to taking coats and canteens off the bodies of dead soldiers. After weeks in the woods, and with Daylily deathly ill, they all just long to be someplace they can call home again. They miss their families terribly, but through their struggles, Luke, Daylily, and Caswell all know they have each other, and their bond proves even stronger than family.

An affecting, poignant look at the Civil War through the eyes of children caught in the crossfire, Black Angels is a very special read that won’t soon be forgotten.