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1841) Half a man
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a young man who after years of being told not to ask his World War II veteran grandfather about his injuries learns how his grandfather survived a torpedo attack on his ship.
1842) The tenth man
Author
Publisher
Washinton Square Press / Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story of a man who buys his life in a moment of fear set in wartime occupied France.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"The battles of World War II may be a world away, but Molly McIntire and her family do what they can to help from the 1944 home front. Meet Molly and her family, and get to know what it was like to be a girl celebrating Christmas during World War II"--
1844) Then
Author
Series
Once series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
1845) The excitements: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
1847) Blitz: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
September, 1940: Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and watch German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Pamela suddenly breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve to tell no one about it, but when charred corpses are discovered in nearby...
1848) Whistling in the dark
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside. When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
1851) The comfort of ghosts
Author
Series
A Maisie Dobbs novel volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
1852) The boy who dared
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
1853) The Sky over Rebecca
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Kara follows mysterious tracks in the snow that lead her across time and space from modern-day Sweden to 1942 Germany where two siblings are hiding from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A middle-grade introduction to World War II is presented through stories of high-flying action, heroism and survival that illuminate such topics as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the contributions of volunteer pilots and the roles of aircraft carrier military bombers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured. These American and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
1859) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
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