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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
Format: Book
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Determined to find the knight responsible for the terrible deaths of her mother and the Jewish peddler who had given them a home, thirteen-year-old Sarah is helped in her quest by a strange old woman, a magical sword, a young faery, and an unkempt knight with little armor and no horse. |
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Allies
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny -- and how just one day can change the world.June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only... |
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Amina's Voice
Hena Khan - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Amina's anxieties are entirely relatable, but it's her sweet-hearted nature that makes her such a winning protagonist." - Entertainment Weekly A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school... |
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Armstrong and Charlie
Steven B. Frank - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it. And when he does, he'll grow older than the brother he recently lost. Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign him up for Opportunity Busing to a white... |
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The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about HitlerBartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner... |
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Cloud and Wallfish
Anne Nesbet - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport,... |
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Countdown
Deborah Wiles - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.It's 1962, and it seems everyone is living in fear. Twelve-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, DC, during the days surrounding the Cuban... |
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review) .During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with... |
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Genevieve's War
Patricia Reilly Giff - Holiday House
Format: Print book
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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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Making Bombs for Hitler
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she?But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis... |
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A Night Divided
Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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From NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west.With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother... |
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The Night Garden
POLLY HORVATH - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts,... |
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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
Nora Raleigh Baskin - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Anything But Typical comes a touching look at the days leading up to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and how that day impacted the lives of four middle schoolers.Ask anyone: September 11, 2001, was serene and lovely, a perfect day - until... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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It's 1943 Copenhagen and the Jews of Denmark are being "relocated," so Annemarie Johansen's best friend, Ellen, moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. When Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission, she must find the courage to save her friend's... |
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ORPHAN TRAIN GIRL
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This young readers' edition of Christina Baker Kline's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a young foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author's note and archival... |
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Refugee
ALAN GRATZ - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fadi never imagined he'd start middle school in Fremont, California, thousands of miles away from home in Kabul. But, here he was, half a world apart from his missing six year old sister who'd been lost because of him, as they'd fled Afghanistan. Adjusting to life in the United States... |
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Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly.... Her only prayer was still, "I dont want to die." Oh, please, God, dont let me die, she thought. Ive never even had a chance to live. Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy,... |
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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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The Warden's Daughter
Jerry Spinelli - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner,... |
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White Bird: A Wonder Story
R. J. Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by her blockbuster phenomenon Wonder, R. J. Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with an unforgettable story of the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war.In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters... |
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