The Fountains of Silence
by Ruta Sepetys
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 800L · 495 pages · 2019
Why we'd hand it over
Sepetys delivers a love story framed inside a meticulously researched fascist state—unflinching about political violence, genuinely moving about moral courage, and specific enough about 1950s Madrid that it teaches real history.