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Historical Fiction Grades 4-6
Prehistory
Dar and the Spear-Thrower - by Marjorie Cowley
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780395681329
ISBN-10: 0395681324
A young Cro-Magnon boy living 15,000 years ago in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear-thrower.
Call Number:  J COWLEY
Ancient
Pankration: The Ultimate Game - by Dyan Blacklock
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780807563236
ISBN-10: 0807563234
Having been kidnapped from a ship leaving plague-ridden Athens in 430 B.C., twelve-year-old Nic attempts to escape his captors and keep his promise to meet his friend at the Olympic games.
Call Number:  J BLACKLOC
The Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery - by Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Millbrook/Roaring Book
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780761315827
ISBN-10: 0761315829
In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog -- and why.  Series:  The Roman Mysteries
Call Number:  J LAWRENCE
Year of the Tiger - by Alison Lloyd
Publisher: Holiday House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780823422777
ISBN-10: 0823422771
In ancient China, two boys forge an unlikely alliance in an effort to become expert archers and, ultimately, to save their city from invading barbarians.
Call Number:  J/YA LLOYD
Medieval
Crispin: The Cross of Lead - by Avi
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780786808281
ISBN-10: 0786808284
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Call Number:  J/YA AVI
Catherine, Called Birdy - by Karen Cushman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780395681862
ISBN-10: 0395681863
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Call Number:  J/YA CUSHMAN
Bound - by Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780689861758
ISBN-10: 0689861753
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Call Number:  J NAPOLI
A Single Shard - by Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780395978276
ISBN-10: 0395978270
Tree-ear, a twelve-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Call Number:  J PARK
Dogboy - by Christopher Russell
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780060841164
ISBN-10: 0060841168
In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor's prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at the decisive battle of Crécy.
Call Number:  J RUSSELL
16th Century
Raleigh's Page - by Alan W. Armstrong
Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780375933196
ISBN-10: 0375933190
In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians.
Call Number:  J ARMSTRON
Wicked Will - by Bailey MacDonald
Publisher: Aladdin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416986607
ISBN-10: 141698660X
Performing in the English town of Stratford-on-Avon in 1576, a young actress (disguised as a boy) and a local lad named Will Shakespeare uncover a murder mystery.
Call Number:  J MACDONAL
Colonial Period
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 - by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780670060603
ISBN-10: 0670060607
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
Call Number:  J/YA CARBONE
The Sacrifice - by Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689876509
ISBN-10: 0689876505
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
Call Number:  J DUBLE
 
18th Century
The Winter People - by Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780803726949
ISBN-10: 0803726945
As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
Call Number:  J/YA BRUCHAC
Stowaway - by Karen Hesse
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780689839870
ISBN-10: 0689839871
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor, which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Call Number:  J/YA HESSE
Revolutionary War
Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776 - by Laurie Calkhoven
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780525421443
ISBN-10: 0525421440
In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott enjoys assuming his father's role in taking care of his mother and sister, as well as his work as a spy and messenger for the American revolutionaries, but the pleasure ends when he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand, and learns that a trusted patriot is actually a British spy.  Series: Boys of Wartime
Call Number:  J CALKHOVE
Attack of the Turtle: A Novel - by Drew Carlson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780802853080
ISBN-10: 0802853080
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.
Call Number:  J CARLSON
 
Give Me Liberty - by Laura Elliott
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperTrophy
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9781442031821
ISBN-10: 1442031824
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia, and his compassionate master Basil, who believes in equality for all, must decide whether or not to join in the fight for liberty as the American Revolution erupts around them. 
Call Number:  J ELLIOTT
 
Johnny Tremain - by Esther Forbes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1943
ISBN-13: 9780395067666
ISBN-10: 0395067669
Johnny Tremain, apprentice silversmith, takes on the cause of freedom as a message carrier for the Sons of Liberty in pre-Revolution Boston.
Call Number:  J/YA FORBES
 
Storyteller - by Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375938887
ISBN-10: 0375938885
A modern-day teen learns the story of her look-alike ancestor who lived during the American Revolution and struggled to survive while following male family members into battle.
Call Number:  J GIFF
 
19th Century
Victory - by Susan Cooper
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9781416914778
ISBN-10: 1416914773
Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Call Number:  J COOPER
 
Elijah of Buxton - by Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780439023443
ISBN-10: 0439023440
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Call Number:  J CURTIS
 
Dancing at the Odinochka - by Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689873881
ISBN-10: 0689873883
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans.
Call Number:  J HILL
 
Fair Weather - by Richard Peck
Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780803725164
ISBN-10: 0803725167
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
Call Number:  J/YA PECK
 
Westward Expansion
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West - by Avi
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781423105190
ISBN-10: 1423105192
When his Uncle Jesse heads to the Pike's Peak region of the Rocky Mountains to look for gold, Early Wittcomb follows in hopes of raising enough money to save the family farm, but the journey west is full of hardships.
Call Number:  J AVI
 
The Porcupine Year - by Louise Erdrich
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780060297879
ISBN-10: 0060297875
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omakayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Call Number:  J ERDRICH
 
 
Worth - by A. LaFaye
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780689857300
ISBN-10: 0689857306
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska. When his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
Call Number:  J LAFAYE
Crooked River - by Shelley Pearsall
Publisher: Yearling
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9781442031784
ISBN-10: 1442031786
When a white trapper is murdered and a young Chippewa Indian is arrested as the suspected villain, the entire town is enraged and screams for revenge fill the streets, but thirteen-year-old Rebecca Carver believes the Chippewa boy is falsely accused and sets out to find out the truth to set him free from his pending fate on the gallows.
Call Number:  J PEARSALL
The Sign of the Beaver - by Elizabeth George Speare
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1983
ISBN-13: 9780395338902
ISBN-10: 0395338905
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Call Number:  J SPEARE
 
Civil War
Iron Thunder: The Battle between the Monitor & the Merrimac: A Civil War Novel - by Avi
Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9781423104469
ISBN-10: 1423104463
After his father is killed during the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Tom takes on a job at the ironworks to support his family, and finds himself a target of ruthless spies when he begins assisting with the ironclad ship the "Monitor."
Call Number:  J AVI
 
 
Retreat from Gettysburg - by Kathleen Ernst
Publisher: White Mane Kids
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9781572491878
ISBN-10: 1572491876
In 1863, during the tense week after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Maryland boy faces difficult choices as he is forced to care for a wounded Confederate officer while trying to decide if he himself should leave his family to fight for the Union.
Call Number:  J/YA ERNST
 
Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies - by Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780689823794
ISBN-10: 0689823797
Based on a true story, two women, an abolitionist and a daughter of a freed slave, work together on an undercover project for the Union cause during the Civil War.
Call Number:  J/YA LYONS
 
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg - by W. R. Philbrick
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780439668187
ISBN-10: 0439668182
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
Call Number:  J PHILBRIC
 
20th Century
A Thousand Never Evers - by Shana Burg
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780385734707
ISBN-10: 0385734700
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.
Call Number:  J BURG
The Year of Miss Agnes - by Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780606242622
ISBN-10: 0606242627
When a new teacher comes to their remote Alaskan town, ten-year-old Frederika and her classmates believe that this teacher will leave as quickly as all the rest, but Miss Agnes is different.
Call Number:  J HILL
Take Me with You - by Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780763637392
ISBN-10: 0763637394
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
Call Number:  J MARSDEN
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts - by Richard Peck
Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780803727366
ISBN-10: 0803727364
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Call Number:  J/YA PECK
Listening for Lions - by Gloria Whelan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060581749
ISBN-10: 0060581743
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Call Number:  J WHELAN
Countdown - by Deborah Wiles
Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780545106054
ISBN-10: 0545106052
The fearful events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are witnessed by 11-year-old Franny, who finds her life and perspectives changing throughout the course of a week that is also marked by difficult family issues.
 Call Number:  J WILES
One Crazy Summer - by Rita Williams-Garcia
Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780060760885
ISBN-10: 0060760885
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Call Number:  J WILLIAMS
The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 - by Laurence Yep
Publisher: Harper Collins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780060275242
ISBN-10: 0060275243
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Call Number:  J YEP
World War I
Hattie Big Sky - by Kirby Larson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780385733137
ISBN-10: 0385733135
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
 Call Number:  J/YA LARSON
Lord of the Nutcracker Men - by Iain Lawrence
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780385729246
ISBN-10: 0385729243
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
Call Number:  J/YA LAWRENCE
Winnie's War - by Jenny Moss
Publisher: Walker & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780802798190
ISBN-10: 0802798195
Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family--her coffin-building father, her troubled mother, and her two baby sisters.
Call Number:  J MOSS
Great Depression
Al Capone Does My Shirts - by Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780399238611
ISBN-10: 0399238611
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Call Number:  J/YA CHOLDENK
Bud, Not Buddy - by Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780385323062
ISBN-10: 0385323069
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Call Number:  J/YA CURTIS
Out of the Dust - by Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780590360807
ISBN-10: 0590360809
In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression.
Call Number:  J/YA HESSE
Strawberry Hill - by Mary Ann Hoberman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316041362
ISBN-10: 031604136X
Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
Call Number:  J HOBERMAN
Turtle in Paradise - by Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375936883
ISBN-10: 0375936882
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Call Number:  J/YA HOLM
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories - by Richard Peck
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780803722903
ISBN-10: 0803722907
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Call Number:  J/YA PECK
The Storm in the Barn - by Matt Phelan
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780763636180
ISBN-10: 0763636185
Facing his share of ordinary challenges, from local bullies to his father's failed expectations, eleven-year-old Jack Clark must also deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas, including the rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness.  Graphic Novel 
Call Number:  J PHELAN
Moon over Manifest - by Clare Vanderpool
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385738835
ISBN-10: 0385738838
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Call Number:  J VANDERPO
World War II
Don't You Know There's a War On? - by Avi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780380978632
ISBN-10: 0380978636
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
Call Number:  J/YA AVI
Missing in Action - by Dean Hughes
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416915027
ISBN-10: 1416915028
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese-American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Call Number:  J HUGHES
Weedflower - by Cynthia Kadohata
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780689865749
ISBN-10: 0689865740
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Call Number:  J KADOHATA
The Green Glass Sea - by Ellen Klages
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780670061341
ISBN-10: 0670061344
In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top-secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her.
Call Number:  J KLAGES
Black Radishes - by Susan Meyer
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385907484
ISBN-10: 0385907486
Forced to leave his friends behind in Nazi-threatened 1940 Paris, Jewish youth Gustave relocates with his parents to a small country village where he learns about the occupation and meets a Catholic resistance fighter who offers to help them flee to America.
Call Number:  J MEYER
When My Name Was Keoko - by Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780618133352
ISBN-10: 0618133356
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Call Number:  J/YA PARK
Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook - by Beverly Patt
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780761455776
ISBN-10: 0761455779
Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.
Call Number:  J PATT
Yellow Star - by Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780761452775
ISBN-10: 076145277X
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Call Number:  J ROY
Someone Named Eva - by Joan M. Wolf
Publisher: Clarion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780618535798
ISBN-10: 0618535799
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.
 Call Number:  J WOLF
Vietnam War
Shooting the Moon - by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781416926900
ISBN-10: 1416926909
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the Army world that she has grown up in.
Call Number:  J DOWELL
Letters from Wolfie - by Patti Sherlock
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780670036943
ISBN-10: 0670036943
Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.
Call Number:  J SHERLOCK
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