The Night of the Burning: Devorah’s Story by Linda Press Wulf. Haunted by the loss of her parents to war and typhus, and driven from her Polish shtetl during the murderous anti-Semitic pogroms of 1921, Devorah, 12, and her younger sister, Nechama, are taken with 200 other Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa’s Jewish community.

An Ocean Apart, a World Away by Lensey Namioka. (Laurel Leaf, 2003) Xueyan, a privileged Chinese girl, is given the opportunity in 1921 to attend Cornell University in the United States. A sequel to Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by the same author.

Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance by Eleanora E. Tate. Celeste goes to visit her almost mythical Aunt Valentina who lives in a mansion in Harlem, an actress who drives a big car and wears fancy clothes.Semicolon review here.

Witness by Karen Hesse. (2001) In a small Vermont town in 1924, the Ku Klux Klan moves in, and citizens are reluctant to do anything about the Klan until a shooting occurs.

Jake’s Orphan by Peggy Brooke. (2000) A twelve-year-old boy takes a job on a North Dakota tree farm in 1926 to escape the Minnesota orphanage where he lives. Recommended for ages 9-12.

Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine. (1999), An orphaned boy sneaks out of the Hebrew Home for Boys and discovers Harlem’s world of jazz in 1926. Recommended for ages 8-12.

Moonshiner’s Gold by John Erickson. A mystery/adventure novel set in the Texas Panhandle in 1925-27. Fourteen-year-old Riley McDaniels’s father has just died, and he and his mother struggle to keep their ranch going. Riding home from school one afternoon, Riley discovers that moonshiners have built a still in a nearby deserted canyon on their property and are making whiskey.

Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle. (2006) A fourteen-year-old boy who discovers a dead body on the beach in 1929 and suspects it has something to do with bootlegging.

Bright Young Things by Anna Godberson. YA, probably skews older. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey leave their Midwestern home for the bright lights of Manhattan.

Vixen by Jillima Larkin. Also looks as if it would be best for older teens and twenty-somethings. 17-year-old Gloria Carmody wants to live it up as a flapper in Jazz Age Chicago.

Choosing Up Sides by John Ritter. (1998) An athletically talented thirteen-year-old boy in 1920s Ohio whose father, a fundamentalist preacher, opposes his wish to play baseball. Recommended for ages 10-14.

The Storyteller’s Daughter by Jean Thesman. (1997) A fifteen-year-old girl in Seattle during Prohibition suspects her father may be illegally smuggling rum into the country, just before he disappears.

Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me by Timothy Tocher. (2004) A fifteen-year-old boy leaves his abusive father and goes to New York in to try out for the New York Giants baseball team.

Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber. In the 1920s, Iris’ emotionally distant father sends her to rural Missouri to act as a companion to an elderly woman while he heads to Kansas City with his fiance. Iris’ mother died when she was five, and it takes her some time to learn to care for Mrs. Nesbitt and see her own future with optimism.

The River by Rumer Godden. YA before there was YA, The River tells the story of a young British girl coming of age in India.

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