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Author
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
5) Pigeon hero!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a carrier pigeon named GI Joe, who braved enemy fire and other hazards to deliver a crucial message that prevented the bombing of an Italian town during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Growing up in a lighthouse, 11-year-old Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels, and stories about sea monsters. But now the country is at war and the clifftops are a terrifying battleground. Pet will need to muster all her bravery to uncover why her family is being torn apart. This is the story of a girl who is afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overheard. A girl who is somehow...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention and couldn't be more of a pain if she tried. It's all Millie can do to stay calm and feel in control. Still--there's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Charlie?s brother, Joe, is sent to fight in WWII, he keeps in touch with Charlie through letters. But those letters can?t help keep the bullies away from Charlie. Can Charlie find inspiration through the letters to stand up to the bullies and be a hero like Joe?
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Three young friends-Leo, Elsa, and Max-spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe-to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland-will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?
12) Silver stars
Author
Series
Front lines (Michael Grant) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1943, World War II. With heavy memories of combat, Frangie, Rainy, Rio and the rest of the American army are moving on to their next target: the Italian island of Sicily. The women won't conquer Italy alone. They are not heroes for fighting alongside their brothers-they are soldiers. But Frangie, Rainy, Rio, and the millions of brave females fighting for their country have become a symbol in the fight for equality. They will brave terrible...
13) Purple hearts
Author
Series
Front lines (Michael Grant) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Courage, sacrifice, and fear have lead Rio, Frangie, and Rainy through front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and thousands of Allies must fight their deadliest battle yet-for their country and their lives-as they descend into the freezing water and onto the treacherous sands of Omaha Beach. It is June 6, 1944. D-Day has arrived. No longer naive recruits, these soldier girls are now Silver Star...
14) Boxes for Katje
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Benjamin is a philosopher with extraordinary ideas. But when his country begins punishing people for being different, he must escape. Over hills and valleys he trudges with a heavy suitcase. What could he be carrying? A compelling story, beautifully illustrated by Pei-Yu Chang, about the importance of personal freedom and the distances we go to protect them-based on a true story of Walter Benjamin.
17) Hollow chest
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Debut author Brita Sandstrom arrives with an unforgettable modern folktale of the darkness around and inside us, and the courage it takes to keep hope alive.
Author
Series
Nanea 1941 volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everything has changed since the war started. Nanea had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But it hasn't. There are still curfews and blackouts and constant reminders of war. Nanea's dear friend Donna had to leave Hawaii, and Nanea's big brother won't stop talking about joining the Army. She can't bear the thought of him far from home and in danger. In the swirl of changes, Nanea turns to hula. Dancing makes her feel...
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