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Levitin, Sonia. Room in the heart. YA LEV After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteenyear-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive. Lieurance, Suzanne. The Lucky Baseball: my story in a Japanese-American internment camp. J LIE In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. J LOW In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Matas, Carol. After the War YA MAT After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine. Mazer, Norma Fox. Good Night, Maman. J MAZ After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp on Lake Oswego, New York. Mazur, Harry. Heroes Don’t Run. J MAZ To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa. McClafferty, Carla K. In defiance of Hitler: the secret mission of Varian Fry. YA B FRY At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in the rescue of more than 2,000 refugees, including novelist Heinrich Mann and artist Marc Chagall. Means, Florence. The Moved Outers. J MEA After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps. Meserole, Mike. The great escape: the longest tunnel. YA 940.5472 MES Spring, 1943; Stalag Luft III, Germany: every prisoner in the Nazi camps had one thought in mind—to get out. The stakes were high, however: anyone caught would be executed. Myers, Walter Dean. The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins. J MYE A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Fire in the Hills. J NAP Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war. Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water. J NAP After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys and his Jewish friend, Roberto escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice. Park. Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko. J PAR 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. Paulsen, Gary. The Cookcamp. J PAU During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. Pausewang, Gudrun. Dark Hours. YA PAU Several days before Gisel's 16th birthday, the family must flee their small village as the Russian army advances and the American forces approach. Pausewang, Gudrun. Traitor. YA PAU 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. Peck, Richard. On the wings of heroes. J PEC A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war. Rinaldi, Ann. Keep smiling through. J RIN A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do. Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. J ROY 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. Sachs, Marilyn. Lost in America. YA SAC Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.
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