| 1938 - 1945 (WORLD WAR II) |
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| Avi |
Don't
You Know There's a War On? |
| In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, 11-year-old
Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite
teacher from being fired. |
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| Bunting, Eve |
Spying
on Miss Muller |
| At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at
the start of World War II, 13-year-old Jessie must deal
with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German
and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem. |
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| Coerr, Eleanor |
Mieko
and the Fifth Treasure |
| Staying with her grandparents after the
atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, 10-year-old
Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed
forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful
drawing for the contest at school. |
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| Cutler, Jane |
My
Wartime Summers |
| During four wartime summers, Ellen finds
that despite her best efforts not to, she is changing
and nothing stays the same. |
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| Dahlberg, Maurine |
Play
to the Angel |
| In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly
dangerous Nazi Germany, 12-year-old Greta pursues her
dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother,
Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother. |
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| Davies, Jacqueline |
Where
the Ground Meets the Sky |
| During World War II, a 12-year-old girl
is uprooted from her quiet, East Coast life and moved
to a secluded army post in New Mexico where her father
and other scientists are working on a top secret project. |
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| Degens, T. |
The
Visit |
| Kate wonders why her family doesn't mention
her Aunt Kate, who died in Germany during the war - until
she read her aunt's diary. |
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| De Jong, Meindert |
The
House of Sixty Fathers |
| A young Chinese boy finds adventure when
he tries to find his parents in Japanese-occupied China. |
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| Denenberg, Barry |
The
Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment
Camp |
| Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal
of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment
camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. |
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| Divakaruni, Chitra |
Neela:
Victory Song |
| In 1939, 12-year-old Neela meets a young
freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after
must rely on his help when her father fails to return
home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation. |
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| Garrigue, Sheila |
The
Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito |
| The fate of a 200-year-old bonsai tree is
decided by a young girl and an old Japanese-Canadian gardener
who resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after
the bombing of Pearl Harbor. |
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| Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Lily's
Crossing |
| During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach
in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee
causes her to see the war and her own world differently. |
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| Greene, Bette |
Summer
of My German Soldier |
| A 12-year-old girl shelters an escaped German
prisoner of war in Arkansas. |
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| Hahn, Mary Downing |
Stepping
on the Cracks |
| In 1944, Margaret helps the school bully
hide his brother, an army deserter, despite her brother's
fighting in Europe. |
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| Heneghan, James |
Wish
Me Luck |
| While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape
the air raids in his Liverpool home, 12-year-old Jaimie
Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation. |
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| Herman, Charlotte |
A
Summer on Thirteenth Street |
| Eleven-year-old Shirley tries to remain
a tomboy as things change in her Chicago neighborhood
in 1944. |
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| Hesse, Karen |
Aleutian
Sparrow |
| An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering
during World War II in American internment camps designed
to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese. |
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| King-Smith, Dick |
Spider
Sparrow |
| Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm,
grows up to be mentally slower than other children but
manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals
as he comes of age during World War II. |
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| Kochenderfer, Lee |
The
Victory Garden |
| Hoping to contribute to the war effort during
World War II, 11-year-old Teresa organizes her friends
care for an ill neighbor's victory garden. |
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| Kudlinski, Kathleen |
Pearl
Harbor Is Burning! A Story of World War II |
| Two fifth-graders, one of whom is Japanese-American,
witness the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| Levitin, Sonia |
Journey
to America |
| A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in
1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once
again united. |
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| Lisle, Janet |
The
Art of Keeping Cool |
| In 1942, Robert and his cousin, Elliott,
uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their
grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become
involved with a German artist who is suspected of being
a spy. |
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| Maguire, Gregory |
The
Good Liar |
| Now an old man living in the United States,
Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France,
especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene
befriended a young German soldier. |
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| Matas, Carol |
Daniel's
Story |
| Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis
rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in
a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. |
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| McKenzie, Ellen |
Under
the Bridge |
| When Ritchie's younger sister, Rosie, gets
very sick after their mother suddenly goes away, Rosie
begins to receive letters from a lonely troll, and these
letters help Ritchie cope with his mother's absence, his
father's seeming indifference, and the fifth-grade class
bully. |
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| Mori, Hana |
Jirohattan |
| Sitting on the cemetery steps overlooking
her village in rural Japan, a grandmother talks with her
grandson. Everything around her evokes memories of the
difficult times during World War II and of Jirohattan,
a boy who was slower to learn than the rest of his neighbors.
While he lacked cleverness, he was strong, worked hard,
and had a caring heart. |
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| Myers, Anna |
Captain's
Command |
| Even as Christmas approaches and Gail longs
to hear that her soldier father has not been killed in
World War II, the sixth-grader helps bring her handicapped
uncle back to life. |
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| Paterson, Katherine |
Jacob
Have I Loved |
| Feeling deprived all her life of schooling,
friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister,
Louise finally begins to fight back. |
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| Paulsen, Gary |
The
Quilt |
| During World War II, while his father is
in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago,
a 6-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in
a rural Norwegian-American community in Minnesota.. |
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| Pearson, Kit |
The
Sky Is Falling |
| In 1940, Norah and her younger brother,
Gavin, are sent to live in Canada to escape the bombing
of England and slowly adjust to a new family, school,
and country. |
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| Pearson, Kit |
Looking
at the Moon |
| In 1943, 13-year-old Norah, a war guest
from England, travels with her Canadian host family to
their cottage north of Toronto and meets a young man who
doesn't want to go to war. |
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| Pearson, Kit |
The
Lights Go on Again |
| Two English children, Norah and Gavin, evacuated
to Canada in 1940, have different feelings about returning
home to England when the war is almost over. |
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| Pelgrom, Els |
The
Winter when Time Was Frozen |
| A 12-year-old girl and her father are forced
to flee after the Battle of Arnhem in Holland and find
shelter with a farm family during the final months of
the war. |
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| Propp, Vera |
When
the Soldiers Were Gone |
| After the German occupation of the Netherlands,
Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had
been living and reunites with his real parents, who returned
from hiding. |
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| Reeder, Carolyn |
Foster's
War |
| When his older brother joins the army during
World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian
father, 11-year-old Foster fights his battles on the home
front. |
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| Roth-Hano, Renee |
Touch
Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France |
| When the German Army invades France, Renee
and her family are forced to flee their home in Alsace
to live in Paris, and she and her sisters must seek shelter
in a convent in Normandy. |
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| Sachs, Marilyn |
A
Pocket Full of Seeds |
| During the German occupation of France,
a young Jewish girl must cope with the disappearance of
her family. |
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| Savin, Marcia |
The
Moon Bridge |
| The friendship of two girls in San Francisco
is affected when Mitzi's Japanese-American family is forced
to move into an internment camp. |
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| Seabrooke, Brenda |
The
Haunting at Stratton Falls |
| At Christmastime in 1944, while staying
with disagreeable cousins in New York State because her
father is in Europe fighting in World War II, 11-year-old
Abby discovers that her relatives' old house is haunted
by the ghost of a girl from the Civil War era. |
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| Strickland, Brad |
When
Mack Came Back |
| When his older brother leaves the family
farm in order to join the army in 1943, 10-year-old Maury
remains behind to deal with his angry father and to care
for Ben's injured puppy. |
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| Taylor, Theodore |
The
Cay |
| When the freighter on which they are traveling
is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II,
a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the
head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert
island in the Caribbean, where the boy acquires a new
kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. |
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| Todd, Leonard |
The
Best Kept Secret of the War |
| Ten-year-old Cam fights personal battles
at home in North Carolina while his father is with the
Army in Europe during the summer of 1944. |
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| Towne, Mary |
The
Boy on the Beach |
| During her family's visits to the beach
on Long Island, Ruth makes friends with a lifeguard who
helps her handle her worries about the war, an outbreak
of polio, and being the youngest girl in sixth grade. |
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| Uchida, Yoshiko |
Journey
Home |
| After their release from an internment camp,
Yuki and her family have difficulties when they return
to life in Berkeley, California. |
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| Van Stockum, Hilda |
The
Borrowed House |
| A young German girl goes to live in occupied
Amsterdam with her parents and learns the truth about
the war. |
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| Westall, Robert |
The
Kingdom by the Sea |
| Eleven-year-old Harry, believing his parents
have died during a bombing, seeks a safe shelter with
an abandoned dog. |
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| Westall, Robert |
Time
of Fire |
| In England during World War II, with his
mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training
and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny tries
to understand the darkest truths of war and retribution. |
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| Winter, Kathryn |
Katarina |
| During World War II in Slovakia, a young
Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is
sustained by her belief that she will return home to her
family as soon as the war ends. |
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| Yep, Laurence |
Hiroshima |
| Sachi becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens,
suffering effects from the atomic bomb blast over her
city in 1945. |
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| Yolen, Jane |
The
Devil's Arithmetic |
Hannah resents the tradition of her Jewish
heritage until time travel places her in the middle of
a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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