Timeline by Michael Crichton
Science Fiction
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th-century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and, upon landing in France, become involved in the Hundred Years War. Contains mature language and scenes of warfare

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Epistolary Satire
Ella must save her community when its government begins to censor and manipulate the citizen’s language.

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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Realistic Fiction
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Contains mature language

thanks
i was leaning more on reading ellen foster but what do ya’ll think