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A Traitor Among Us
Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
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In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village |
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Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust
Ruth Yaffe Radin
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When the Nazis invade Poland, nothing is safe anymore. Ten-year-old Sarah and her family must leave their home and live in a Jewish ghetto surrounded by barbed wire. There, life is a nightmare of cold and hunger where Nazi soldiers kill Jews at will. But Sarah still hears stories that give... |
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Good Night, Maman
Norma Fox Mazer
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Karin Levi's world of family, school, and friends is torn apart when the German army occupies Paris in June of 1940. Karin and her brother, Marc, like Jews all over Europe, find themselves on the run, seeking safety wherever they can find it. When Marc obtains two coveted places aboard... |
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By the Great Horn Spoon!
Sid Fleischman - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1849 and Jack Flagg stows away on a ship headed for the California gold fields where he plans to recoup his Auntie Arabella's fortune. |
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The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Laurence Yep - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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A gripping portrait of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Laurence Yep. When the quake subsides, Chin and Henry and their families are lucky to be alive. But now they must escape the fires that have broken out and find their way to safety-before it's... |
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Lily's Crossing (Newbery Honor Book)
Patricia Reilly Giff
Format: Book
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This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family's cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime... |
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Spying on Miss Muller
Eve Bunting - Clarion Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Before World War II began, Jessie Drumm and her friends at Alveara boarding school in Belfast liked their German teacher, Miss Muller. But after Jessie sees the teacher climbing to the roof at night, she and the others wonder if Miss Muller is a secret agent, signaling the enemy. Hoping... |
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Play to the Angel
Maurine F Dahlberg
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A budding pianist will not be stopped, even by NazisIn February 1938, in Vienna, twelve-year-old Greta Radky is devastated to learn that her mother plans to sell the family piano. Greta's brother, a concert pianist, died the previous April, and her mother thinks of |
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Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn
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In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter. |
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Love You, Soldier
Amy Hest
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Katie, a Jewish girl living in New York City during World War II, sees many dynamic changes in her world as she ages from seven to ten waiting for her father to return from the war. |
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The Art of Keeping Cool (Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Awards))
Janet Taylor Lisle - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books; 1st edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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Only Robert ever sees the plane. But the pilot is shadowy -- maybe his missing father, maybe not. Robert doesn't mention this vision to Elliot, his cousin, whom he meets when he moves from Ohio with his mother and sister to live out the war with his grandparents in Rhode Island. Elliot... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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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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Ben and Me
Robert Lawson - Little
Format: Book
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Banjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries. |
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Rose Blanche
Christopher Gallaz
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A young German girl watches as the streets of her town fill with soldiers and tanks. Then, one day, she follows a truck into the woods and discovers a terrible secret. |
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Torn Thread
Anne Isaacs
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It is June 30, l943 in Bendin, Poland. Twelve-year-old Eva has been hiding in an attic with her Papa as Nazi's ravage what was once her safe, comfortable town. Now the store windows are boarded up and Nazi signs warn against buying goods from Jewish merchants. Three weeks ago, he |
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Meet Molly: An American Girl
Valerie Tripp - Pleasant Co.
Format: Print book
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While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween. |
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Under the Blood Red Sun
Graham Salisbury
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After the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tomizu, the American-born son of Japanese immigrants, suddenly becomes the man of the house after his father is arrested and discovers the true meaning of friendship and loyalty. |
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The Key Is Lost
Ida Vos - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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What would it be like to lose your home, your family, and even your name? Eva and Lisa Zilverstijn find out. When they go into hiding from the Nazis during World War II, they lose everything but each other.As they move from attic to attic, Eva and Lisa must rely on their courage, their... |
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Hide and Seek
Ida Vos
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A young Jewish girl relates her experience of the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War II -- the separation, the hiding, and the fear both during and after the war. |
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Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech - Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Book
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As they pulled onto a narrow dirt road, Sairy said, "You are now entering Ruby Holler, the one and only Ruby Holler! Your lives are never going to be the same -- "Dallas and Florida have been dubbed the "trouble twins." They have been shuffled between foster families... |
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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things... |
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The Shakespeare Stealer
Gary Blackwood
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A panoramic novel set in Shakespeare's time finds Widge, a young orphan, possessing a special talent for shorthand that places him at the mercy of an unscrupulous master who would get the script of Hamlet at any cost. Jr Lib Guild. |
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Gennifer Choldenko - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It?s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those... |
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The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mystery #1)
Caroline Lawrence - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is A.D. 79, and Flavia Gemina, daughter of a successful Roman sea captain, is about to celebrate her birthday. Then the dogs in her neighborhood start dying mysteriously, and there are rumors of burglary in the houses on Flavia's street. Set in the graveyards, houses, and alleyways of an ancient... |
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Emilys Fortune
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left... |
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Stop the Train!
Geraldine McCaughrean - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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"There will be no Florence Station on the Red Rock Railroad Line. . . . From here on out the trains won't be stopping at Florence. Ever." In 1893 Oklahoma's northwest is opened up to settlers by government decree, and Cissy Sissney and her family rush to join the tens... |
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The Silent Boy (Readers Circle)
Lois Lowry - Laurel Leaf
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.“The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world to depict a complete picture of the turn... |
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The Bamboo Sword
Margi Preus - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Set in 1853 in Japan, this novel follows Yoshi, a Japanese boy who dreams of someday becoming a samurai. Unfortunately, as part of the serving class, Yoshi can never become a warrior. He is taken up by Manjiro, the protagonist of Preus's Heart of a Samurai, and becomes his servant and secret... |
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Eyes of the Emperor
Graham Salisbury - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemyeven the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese... |
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Samurai of Gold Hill
Yoshiko Uchida
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Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai. |
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