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Battle Scars WW2 Historical Fiction
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Postcards from no man's land
by Aidan Chambers
A powerful novel, told in dual narratives, takes readers on an unforgettable journey through history, as seventeen-year-old backpacker Jacob Todd travels through Amsterdam to honor his grandfather, a soldier who died in a nearby town in World War II, while in 1944, a teenage girl named Geertrui meets an English soldier named Jacob Todd, who must hide with her family.
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Under a war-torn sky
by Laura Elliott
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit. 25,000 first printing.
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase
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Invasion
by Walter Dean Myers
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
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Eyes of the emperor
by Graham Salisbury
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II by being the dogs' bait.
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith
Dreaming of being a pilot her whole life, Ida Mae Jones sees her chance during World War II, but she cannot be accepted into the WASP because she is black, forcing Ida Mae to choose between her racial heritage and chasing her dream.
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Code name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Parallel journeys
by Eleanor H. Ayer
When the Nazi party takes hold of Germany, two young girls go off to live entirely different lives as one suffers as a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz and the other heads off to perform her duties as a distinguished member of the Hitler Youth. Reprint.
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Prisoner of night and fog
by Anne Blankman
In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter. 40,000 first printing.
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Annexed
by Sharon Dogar
A retelling of the story of Anne Frank imagines life in the secret annex from the perspective of Peter, who overcomes an initial loathing for the precocious young diarist before falling in love with her and questioning his faith in light of frightening persecutions. 100,000 first printing.
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Girl in the blue coat
by Monica Hesse
A grief-stricken procurer of black-market goods in World War II-era Amsterdam is compelled to help a desperate neighbor track down a missing Jewish teen who had been hiding from the Nazis. Simultaneous eBook. 30,000 first printing.
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Daniel's story
by Carol Matas
Daniel, a composite character fashioned to reflect the experiences of millions of children during the Holocaust, describes his family's lives in pre-Nazi Frankfurt, their deportation to a ghetto, and their experiences in concentration camps. Reprint.
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In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Recounts the experiences of the author, who, as a young Polish girl--forced to work for the German army because of her blond hair and blue eyes--secretly assisted the Jews, from passing on information to smuggling prisoners from the work camp into the forest. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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The cage
by Ruth Minsky Sender
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp
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Escape from Warsaw
by Ian Serraillier
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, three children who have been separated from their family flee Warsaw
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Recalls the Nobel laureate's war years
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Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
Haunted by the tales of the Holocaust, a young American woman begins a search for her grandmother's World War II past. By the author of Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna.
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Paper hearts
by Meg Wiviott
A graceful and powerful addition to Holocaust literature follows the true story of Fania and Zlatka from their detention and entrance into Auschwitz to their eventual liberation at the hands of the Russians. Simultaneous eBook.
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
The 10th anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times and internationally best-selling title about the ability of books to feed the soul, even amid the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, includes a new introduction by the author, excerpts from the author's notebook, handwritten notes from the original manuscript, the author's original sketches for the illustrations in the book and fresh cover art.
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Ten cents a dance
by Christine Fletcher
When her mother falls ill, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski, in order to support her family, lands a job as a taxi dancer--a girl paid ten cents to dance with any man--and becomes submerged in a dangerous world where the only one who can save her is herself.
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Summer of my German soldier
by Bette Greene
When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship
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The girl is murder
by Kathryn Miller Haines
In 1942 New York City, Iris grieves for the loss of her mother, who has committed suicide, and secretly helps her detective father, as he struggles to make ends meet
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A separate peace
by John Knowles
The novel focuses on the reminiscences of Gene Forrester who returns to the boarding school he attended during the early years of World War II
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Bat 6
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Bat 6an annual softball game between two rivalrous teams of sixthgrade girlsexplodes catastrophically in 1948 because of the prejudice surrounding two new girls who are "different." Reprint.
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The boy who dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Raised during the rise of the Nazi party, Helmuth believed all that he was taught and so joined the Nazi party with all the pride in the world, yet as the country he once knew began to fall apart and he witnessed so many horrific events unfold, Helmuth found it increasingly difficult to remain both loyal and silent.
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Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth.
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Queen of hearts
by Martha Brooks
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm
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The dragonfly pool
by Eva Ibbotson
Meeting the crown prince while at an international folk dancing festival, Tally feels sorry for her royal friend after he explains that he wants to be free just like them, but when his father is assassinated, Tally becomes determined to help her friend and begins plotting his escape from the dangerous Nazis. 25,000 first printing.
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Tamar
by Mal Peet
After her grandfather commits suicide, Tamar inherits a box with a series of clues and coded messages, which leads her to another Tamar, a World War II British spy--a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland some fifty years before. Jr Lib Guild. 13,000 first printing.
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The Darkest hour
by Caroline Tung Richmond
Tapped to join the Clandestine Operations secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls during World War II, 16-year-old Lucie is assigned to track down and interrogate a Nazi traitor about a weapon capable of destroying all of Western Europe. By the author of The Only Thing to Fear. Simultaneous eBook.
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy. Simultaneous eBook.
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The kingdom by the sea
by Robert Westall
During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety
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