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If you like The Book Thief...
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It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
For more superbly crafted, unique, historical tales, check out the books below.
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They Went Left
by Monica Hesse
Navigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother.
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Lovely War
by Julie Berry
When immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught in a World War II-era tryst by the latter's jealous husband, she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I.
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The Game of Love and Death
by Martha Brockenbrough
Growing up a few blocks away from each other in 1920s Seattle, African-American teen Flora and white boy Henry forge a deep bond over their shared love of jazz music, unaware that their taboo relationship is being manipulated by eternal adversaries, Love and Death.
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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta SepetysDrawn back to his mother’s homeland by the utopian promises of the Franco regime in 1957 Madrid, the photographer son of an oil tycoon bonds with a girl who raises his awareness about the lingering shadows of the Spanish Civil War.
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Mapping the Bones
by Jane Yolen
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
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The Blossom and the Firefly
by Sherri L. Smith
A talented violinist in 1945 Japan spends his final eight days before a fatal kamikaze mission in the company of a young woman who has been struggling with trauma after being buried alive in a bombing raid.
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
by Antonio Iturbe
A tale based on true events follows the experiences of a teen prisoner in Auschwitz who risks her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
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The List
by Patricia Forde
A Wordsmith's apprentice responsible for safeguarding forbidden language in a neo-medieval world where all but 500 sanctioned words are strictly censored uncovers a sinister plan to suppress all remaining language by robbing everyday citizens of their ability to speak, in a U.S. release of an award-winning book from Ireland.
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The Lines We Cross
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
A story about the power of choosing tolerance by the award-winning author of Does My Head Look Big in This? finds basketball enthusiast Michael attending anti-immigration rallies with his parents until a friendship with a Muslim refugee newcomer from Afghanistan compels him to question his family's politics.
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Everything All at Once
by Katrina Leno
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice
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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.
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Anna and the Swallow Man
by Gavriel Savit
Left alone when her intellectual father is arrested by the Germans during World War II, Anna, a child growing up in occupied Kraków, Poland, finds shelter with a talented illusionist who hides a sinister nature.
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Rose Under Fire
by Elizabeth Wein
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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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.
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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.
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Milkweed : a novel
by Jerry Spinelli
The hardship and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II is captured through the eyes of a young Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable events and circumstances.
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