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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
1662) The killing code
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC, to work as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other female codebreakers to find the person killing government girls.
1663) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked...
1665) Deserter
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're...
Author
Series
Asha and Baz volume 2
Publisher
Common Deer Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the second book of Caroline Fernandez's Asha and Baz series, readers once more dive into the past--this time to learn about famous actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr! Computer class is off to a rocky start for Asha and Baz! They've been given a Coding Challenge and must correctly code instructions to send a digital frog across a computer screen. But they can't seem to figure it out. With their reputation as the smartest kids in their class at stake,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Private Keith Winston's thoughtful, well-written letters to his wife provide an eye-opening account of what the average World War II GI went through. The letters date from Winston's participation in basic training in March of 1944 to his return to the States in December of 1945. Greenberg and McKeever insert explanations after some of the missives to let readers know what Winston was referring to when he wrote of C rations, victory gardens, etc."...
1668) My nest of silence
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
Author
Publisher
Zhejiang wen yi chu ban she
Pub. Date
2022
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's Book Awards: Sydney Taylor Book Award
Children's New Books: February 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Children's Book Awards: Sydney Taylor Book Award
Children's New Books: February 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Description
Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of resistance and uplift.
1671) The counterfeit Countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
Author
Publisher
Simons & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history. Each year, the devastated village attracts over 300,000...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1937. British socialite and painter Leonora Carrington meets Max Ernst, an older, married artist whose work has captivated Europe. She follows him to Paris, and gains recognition under her own name. When Max and his circle are denounced as "degenerates" and arrested, Leonora battles terrifying circumstances to survive. 1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France, but face capture by the Nazis. Only one...
1675) The Paris agent
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1970--In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his time as a fearless British operative in France. But a critical head injury left Noah with frustrating memory gaps and a burning question that plagues him--who was the agent who saved his life during that tragic final mission? Determined to find answers, Noah's daughter Charlotte embarks on a quest from their cozy home in Liverpool, leading her to the...
1676) The liberators
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war. November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best horses and most nimble jockeys in the annual Champions Day races. Across town and amid tight security, others celebrated the birth of Sun Yat-Sen in a new city center meant to challenge European...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
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