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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II--from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin, "--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014, ©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy. Includes historical note, code-breaking activity, and instructions for making invisible ink.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"The story of American nurses serving in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands on December 8, 1941."--Dust jacket.
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and...
4) Defiance
Author
Series
Resistance volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II--and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace that evolved years later"--
Author
Series
Special forces volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The First Special Service Force is an elite commando unit composed of American and Canadian troops. From the start, the Force is intended to go where other soldiers won't. The call for volunteers specifically singles out lumberjacks, hunters, prospectors, and game wardens as ideal candidates. And their training is anything but basic, including intense lessons in parachuting, hand-to-hand combat, skiing, rock climbing, and adaptation to cold climates....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The inspirational true story of how 22-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days finding and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the German army invaded. Her illegal work keeps her family afloat, and Hanneke also likes to think of it as a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. On a routine delivery,...
11) Bomb
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1938, on the brink of World War II, a chemist in a German laboratory makes a shocking breakthrough: When placed next to radioactive material, a uranium atom splits in two. This simple discovery sets off a scientific race that spans 3 continents, launching Soviet spies, covert operations against Nazis, and a hidden lab filled with America's best minds. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and the genius that created the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms "the Annex" in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A remarkable true WWII account of the maritime attack on the RMS Laconia off the West African coast"--
"On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they had just attacked their allies: locked below decks on the British ship were nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war. When the Germans realized their mistake, they made the unprecedented...
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Formats
Description
"In this third installment to the Montmaray Journals, Sophie and her family come together to support the war effort during World War II, meanwhile fighting to protect their beloved Montmaray"--
18) Once
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
19) A bag of marbles
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...
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