cover image The Circlemaker

The Circlemaker

Maxine Rose Schur. Puffin Books, $5.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-14-037997-6

Twelve-year-old Mendel flees the czar's army and 25 years of forced conscription; Schur ""maintains an edge-of-the-seat tension until the very last words,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. (June)