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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious... |
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Deadly
Julie Chibbaro - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback!Prudence Galewski doesn't belong in Mrs. Browning's esteemed School for Girls. She doesn't want an "appropriate" job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated... |
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A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly - HMH Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over... |
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These Shallow Graves
Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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From Jennifer Donnelly, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Northern Light and Revolution, comes a mystery about dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which people will go for love and revenge. For fans of Elizabeth George and Libba Bray, These Shallow... |
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Bright Young Things
Anna Godbersen - HarperColl; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that... |
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The Luxe
Anna Godbersen - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback
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The Luxe is the first book in the New York Times bestselling Luxe series by Anna Godbersen. In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous... |
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March: Book One
John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from... |
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Vietnam #1: I Pledge Allegiance
Chris Lynch - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together. Haunted... |
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All We Have Left
Wendy Mills - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history--September 11th--to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.Now:Sixteen-year-old Jesse is used to living with the echoes of the past. Her older... |
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Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry,... |
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Riot
Walter Dean Myers - Egmont USA
Format: Hardcover
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As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft-a draft... |
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers, whose bestselling book FALLEN ANGELS celebrates its 20th anniversary.Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler... |
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American ace
Marilyn Nelson - Dial Books
Format: Print book
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This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor's grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter's confession shakes their... |
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Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
Jame Richards - Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s... |
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Live in Infamy
Caroline Tung Richmond - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the eighty years since the Axis powers won World War II with their genetically engineered super soldiers, America has changed drastically in the hands of the unforgiving victors. But there are still those who aspire to what the country used to stand for: freedom for all.In the Western... |
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Out of The Easy
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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It's 1950 and the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled... |
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Distant waves : a novel of the Titanic
Suzanne Weyn - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions... |
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The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Butterfly Yellow
Thanhha Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews!In the final days of the Vit Nam War, Hng takes her little brother,... |
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Karma
Cathy Ostlere - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1984, and fifteen-year-old Maya is on her way to India with her father. She carries with her the ashes of her mother, who has recently committed suicide, and arrives in Delhi on the eve of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination - one of the bloodiest riots in the country's... |
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You Bring the Distant Near
MITALI PERKINS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Horn Book School Library Journal Publishers Weekly BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship,... |
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Format: Paperback
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Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful |
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Soldier Boy
Keely Hutton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops... |
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When Morning Comes
Arushi Raina - Tradewind Books
Format: Library Binding
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Zanele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police cant know. Her mother and sister cant know.Her best friend Thabo, schoolboy turned gang member, can tell shes up to something. But he has troubles of his own--a deal gone wrong and some powerful... |
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The House of One Thousand Eyes
MICHELLE BARKER - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth?Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent... |
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Revolution
Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Readers of If I Stay and Elizabeth George will love Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light. Revolution artfully weaves two girls' stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love; it spans centuries... |
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In the Shadow of the Lamp
Susanne Dunlap - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Its 1854 and sixteen-year-old Molly would give anything to change her circumstances as a lowly servant in a posh London house. So when she hears of an opportunity to join the nurses who will be traveling with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, she jumps at the chance. The work is grueling,... |
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The Sea of Trolls
Nancy Farmer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never... |
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The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner - Dial
Format: Hardcover
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Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-yearold Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when... |
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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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Keeping the Castle
Patrice Kindl - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors--or suitors of any kind--in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then, the young and attractive (and very rich) Lord Boring arrives, and Althea sets her plans... |
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Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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From the Children's Laureate of England, a stunning novel of the First World War, a boy who is on its front lines, and a childhood remembered."They've gone now, and I'm alone at last. I have the whole night ahead of me, and I won't waste a single moment of it . . . I want... |
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington PostLina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home,... |
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Lovely War
Julie Berry - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of... |
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. David Fickling Books,2006 |
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac - Dial; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they... |
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Once
Morris Gleitzman - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents... |
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Front Lines
Michael Grant - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book
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Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Code Name Verity, New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.World War II, 1942. A court decision makes... |
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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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Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything... |
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Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, 1)
Ryan Graudin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Walled City comes a fast-paced and innovative novel that will leave you breathless.Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual... |
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Soldier Boys
Dean Hughes - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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This tense and thought-provoking World War II story, from the acclaimed author of Missing in Action and Search and Destroy, examines what it truly means to be a hero.Spencer Morgan and Dieter Hedrick are on opposite sides of the war, but they're fighting for the same things: honor and respect.At... |
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Secret Soldiers
Keely Hutton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Over a quarter million underage British boys fought on the Allied front lines of the Great War, but not all of them fought on the battlefield -- some fought beneath it, as revealed in this middle-grade historical adventure about a deadly underground mission.Secret Soldiers... |
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother... |
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Almost Autumn
Marianne Kaurin - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Print book
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It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember.But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse... |
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Invasion
Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II.Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, deaths whisper is everywhere. One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common... |
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Resistance
Jennifer A Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference.... |
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's... |
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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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Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: eAudiobook
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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale... |
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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein - Hyperion
Format: Print book
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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,... |
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White Rose
Kip Wilson - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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"In a searing indictment of silent complicity, White Rose shines a light on one remarkable young woman's insistence on the power of truth, no matter the cost. A timely call to resistance." - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint "White Rose is a resonant... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel... |
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