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Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar Rose living in forests patrolled by the German army during World War II in a dark tale of the Holocaust. Reprint.
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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable
by John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Reprint.
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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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The king of Mulberry Street
by Donna Jo Napoli
After being sent alone on ship by his mother from Italy to New York City to start a new life in 1892, young Dom arrives with only a pair of shoes to his name and must find a way to survive in the new world with the rest of the homeless children in Manhattan's Five Points in order to become the success his mother was certain he would be.
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Once
by Morris Gleitzman
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, Felix, a naïve Jewish boy, runs away, and embarking on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents without any comprehension of the war raging around him.
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The devil's arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past
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Eva underground
by Dandi Daley Mackall
Forced to leave her happy world in Chicago behind in order to move with her father to Communist Poland of 1978 where he will assist a radical underground movement, Eva Lott finds the transition unbearable, yet when she meets a handsome new friend, Eva begins to think she may finally be able to find a life for herself in her new land after all. 20,000 first printing.
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Breaking Stalin's nose
by Eugene Yelchin
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values and beliefs.
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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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Between shades of gray
by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note
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Curiosity
by Gary L. Blackwood
In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
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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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Ashes
by Kathryn Lasky
Immersing herself in reading to escape the horrors of Hitler's rise to power in 1932 Berlin, 13-year-old Gabriella Schramm becomes increasingly alarmed by military activities in the streets, the flight of family friend Albert Einstein and the political condemnation of favorite books.
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Run, boy, run : a novel
by Uri Orlev
Based on a true story, Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
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The Caine mutiny : a novel of World War II
by Herman Wouk
A re-release of a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that inspired the Humphrey Bogart film follows a World War II Navy warship crew's experiences with battle and mutiny in the Pacific theater. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.
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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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Hunt for the bamboo rat
by Graham Salisbury
A story based on true events finds 17-year-old Zenji being sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II, a life-threatening effort that requires him to fight for survival in the jungle and behind enemy lines. By the award-winning author of Under the Blood-Red Sun. Simultaneous eBook.
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Is it night or day?
by Fern Schumer Chapman
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known.
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The apothecary
by Maile Meloy
Meeting fearless Benjamin Burrows when she moves to London in 1952, 14-year-old Janie Scott helps Benjamin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped father while protecting a sacred apothecary tome from dangerous Russian spies. A first children's novel by the award-winning author of A Family Daughter.
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After the end
by Amy Plum
Searching for fellow survivors of World War III, a girl from a remote Alaskan village discovers that the war never actually happened and that she must now adapt to a strange and dangerous modern world. By the best-selling author of the Die For Me series. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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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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Traitor
by Gudrun Pausewang
During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so
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