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The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must decide... |
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The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
Lucille Abendanon - North Star Editions
Format: Paperback
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Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn't sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even... |
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Safiyyah's War
Hiba Noor Khan - Andersen Press
Format: Hardcover
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'Safiyyah's War has the soul of a classic & the urgency of a story for our times. A tale of tolerance, unthinkable bravery, and heart-in-mouth true events. I loved this book' Kiran Millwood Hargrave. 'All at once, Safiyyah's War broke my heart and filled me with immense... |
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Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion)
Adam Gidwitz - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book," -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony. "Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you've ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you." -Alan Gratz,... |
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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds... |
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Finding Junie Kim
Ellen Oh - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Amina's Voice, We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh creates a breathtaking story of family, hope, and survival, inspired by her mother's real-life experiences during the Korean War. Faced with middle school racism, Junie Kim learns of her grandparents'... |
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Sea Prayer
KHALED HOSSEINI - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages,... |
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War and Millie McGonigle
Karen Cushman
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Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister... |
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War Horse
Michael Morpurgo - Scholastic Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A powerful tale of war, redemption, and a hero's journey--now available in paperback!In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy,... |
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Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story
Nikki Shannon Smith - Stone Arch Books
Format: Paperback
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Twelve-year-old Charlotte lives on a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, where the American Civil War is raging. All around her, citizens and the Confederate army are fighting to protect slavery -- the very thing Charlotte wishes would end. When she overhears the plantation owner conspiring... |
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Catherine's War
Julia Billet - HarperAlley
Format: Paperback
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"A shining story of a young girl who struggles to come of age and find her place in a world fraught with danger." - Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Newbery Honor-winning author of Hitler Youth* Winner of the Youth Prize at the Angoulme International Comics Festival (voted by readers)... |
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Winnie's Great War
Lindsay Mattick - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} From the creative team behind the bestselling, Caldecott Medal--winning Finding Winnie comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world's most beloved bear.Here is a heartwarming imagining of the real... |
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Ground Zero
Alan Gratz
Format: Hardcover
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Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? Reshmina has grown up in the shadow... |
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The Button War: A Tale of the Great War
Defence for Children International. - Candlewick
Format: Paperback
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"Captures the ways that war can forever alter a childs sense of order, morality, and security in the world. Strongly visual scenes . . . will long resonate in readers minds." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny... |
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Genevieve's War
Patricia Reilly Giff - Holiday House
Format: Paperback
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Thirteen-year-old American girl Genevieve has spent the summer of 1939 at her grandmother's farm in Alsace, France. Then she makes an impulsive choice: to stay in France. It proves to be a dangerous decision. World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer Alsace and deport the Jews and others.... |
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Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
Lia Levi - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with beautiful black-and-white... |
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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
Alda P. Dobbs - Sourcebooks Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican RevolutionIt is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna's mama has died while the Revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers,... |
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Loyalty
Avi - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts, the hypocrisy of men who demand freedom while enslaving others, and the human... |
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Sybil Ludington : Revolutionary War rider
E F Abbott - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message? That's sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington's urgent mission.In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil's father leads a regiment of New York militiamen, and everyone... |
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My Nest of Silence
Matt Faulkner - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life ... [the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face ... [and] their endurance, sacrifices, and resilience, even as their loyalty was questioned without cause." - Susan H. Kamei, author of When... |
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I Am Kavi
Thushanthi Ponweera - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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Caught between two worlds - a poverty-stricken village and a fancy big-city school - a young Sri Lankan girl must decide who she really is and where she really belongs.. 1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging, but everyday life must go on. At Kavi's school, her friends talk... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles... |
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Listen, Slowly
Thanhha Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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Listen, Slowly is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns... |
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Caroline's Secret Message
Kathleen Ernst - American Girl
Format: Paperback
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Caroline and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to pass a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard! She hopes desperately that... |
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Beautiful Blue World
Suzanne M LaFleur - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Print book
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"Beautiful Blue World"is a thrilling and moving story of children who become the key to winning a war. Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together,... |
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Boy, Everywhere
A. M. Dassu - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria. He hangs out with his best friend playing video games; he's trying out for the football team; he adores his family and gets annoyed by them in equal measure. But his comfortable life gets sidetracked abruptly after a bombing in a nearby shopping... |
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Escape from Aleppo
N. H. Senzai - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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Nadia's family is forced to flee their home in Aleppo, Syria, when the Arab Spring sparks a civil war in this timely coming-of-age novel from award-winning author N.H. Senzai.Silver and gold balloons. A birthday cake covered in pink roses. A new dress. Nadia stands at the center... |
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The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill
Megan Frazer Blakemore - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Hazel Kaplansky is a firm believer in the pursuit of knowledge and truth--and she also happens to love a good mystery. When suspicions swirl that a Russian spy has infiltrated her small town of Maple Hill, Vermont, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, Hazel knows it's up to her to find... |
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The Last Cherry Blossom
Kathleen Burkinshaw - Sky Pony Press
Format: Print book
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Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new, very personal story to join "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. " Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living... |
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The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated... |
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World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story
Kenan Trebincevic - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him "Bugs Bunny," and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy,... |
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I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
LAUREN TARSHIS - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Library Binding
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British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape.Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven years old! He'd barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. How could he, while... |
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Calico Girl
Jerdine Nolen - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of Eliza's Freedom Road comes the powerful tale of a slave girl's triumphant journey to freedom with her family during the Civil War.Twelve-year-old Callie Wilcomb and her family are slaves, and the Civil War gives them hope that freedom may be on the horizon.... |
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The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis - Groundwood Books
Format: Paperback
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The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media — the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father... |
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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee; Ground Zero; Two Degrees) is a major publishing moment. A new World War II novel from Alan Gratz? That's even bigger! Get ready for an action-packed, inventive, and powerful take on the attack on Pearl Harbor,... |
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Uprising
Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Iceberg, Jennifer A. Nielsen inspires readers with a brand-new thriller based on the remarkable true story of a young Polish girl who bravely fought, participating in the Warsaw city uprising, and took a stand in the name of freedom.Twelve-year-old... |
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