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Attema, Martha – When the War is Over
(247 pages) Sixteen-year-old Janke fights the Nazis as part of the Resistance in occupied Holland. Every day life becomes more dangerous and her hatred of the Nazi invaders grows—until Janke meets Helmut, a young German soldier who isn’t like the others. Will Helmut help Janke when she’s captured on a secret mission, even if it means betraying his own country? (K)
Chambers, Aidan – Postcards from No Man’s Land
(312 pages) Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd travels to Amsterdam to visit the grave of his World War II veteran grandfather. A seductive stranger leaves him an intriguing message scribbled on a napkin—Nothing in Amsterdam is what it seems. Interspersed with Todd’s twentieth century story, is the tale of teenage Geertui who meets another Jacob Todd---back in 1944 when Holland was occupied by Nazis. Two tales, two Jacobs, one incredible story. (K) Winner of the 2003 Printz Award.
Chan, Gillian – A Foreign Field
(184 pages) During the Second World War, two young teenagers, Ellen Logan and pilot Stephen Dearborn, become friends as they write to each other of their experiences in the war and fall in love in the process. (N)
Chotjewitz, David – Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi
298 pages) In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters. (N)
Cormier, Robert – Heroes
(136 pages) A fifteen-year-old boy lies about his age to go into battle during World War II. When he if horrifically mutilated in an explosion, he returns home and seeks revenge on the person he holds responsible for his fate. (K)
Disher, Garry – The Divine Wind: A Love Story
(153 pages) On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart. (N)
Graber, Janet – Resistance
(138 pages) In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement. (N)
Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier
(230 pages) - Patty Bergen, an unhappy Jewish girl living in Arkansas, shelters a pacifist German POW who escaped from a local prison compound, and she must face the wrath and hatred of her family and her town for her actions.
Heneghan, James - Wish Me Luck
(194 pages) - While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jamie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation. (N)
Hughes, Dean – Soldier Boys
(162 pages) Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge. (N)
Kerr, M.E. - Slap Your Sides
(198 pages) - Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II. (N)
Lawrence, Iain – B for Buster
(320 pages) In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany. (N)
Levitin, Sonia – Room in the Heart
(290 pages) After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-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. (N)
Magorian, Michelle - Good Night, Mr. Tom
(318 pages) - A battered, nine-year-old boy learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War. (N)
Mazer, Harry – The Last Mission
(188 pages) Jack is a freshman in high school when he decides that he wants to be a hero. One small lie gets him a job as a gunner in a B-17 flying combat mission across Europe in 1944. But he wasn't prepared for the terror of night missions or getting shot down. (N)
Oughton, Jerrie - The War in Georgia
(183 pages) - Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields than those in foreign lands. (N)
Pressler, Mirjam – Malka
(280 pages) In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto. (N)
Rylant, Cynthia – I Had Seen Castles (97 pages) Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of himself as an eighteen-year-old, enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever. (N)
Sachs, Marilyn – Lost in America
(150 pages) 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. (N)
Salisbury, Graham – Eyes of the Emperor
(228 pages) Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese-American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II. (N)
Taylor, Theodore - Bomb
(197 pages) - In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
Toksvig, Sandi – Hitler’s Canary
(191 pages) Ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton participate in the Danish Resistance during World War II. (N)
Van Oosting, James – Walking Mary
(130 pages) To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 50s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg depot. (N)
Wharton, William – A Midnight Clear
(241 pages) A mistake sends a group of very intelligent youths to the French front in World War II where they, with Will Knott, entertain themselves by playing bridge with no cards before they die. (N)
Wilson, John – Flames of the Tiger
(176 pages) Dieter grows up in Germany as Hitler rises to power. Swayed by patriotism, Dieter joins the army to fight against the Russians in World War II. But with most of his family dead, Berlin in ruins, and the Russian army closing in, Dieter must let go of his naïve childhood beliefs and face the realities of a brutal world. (K)
Wilson, John - Four Steps to Death (206 pages) It is 1942. The Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest in history, is underway. Three participants -- two fighters and a boy -- are caught in its horrors. Their story is told over seven days of fierce and deadly street-by-street fighting. Vasily is a patriotic Russian soldier determined to rid his country of the hated Nazi invaders -- if he can stay alive long enough. Conrad is a German tank officer, part of the seemingly unstoppable force sweeping eastward over the steppe, expecting a quick victory over Stalin's ill-trained and badly equipped army. Between them is eight-year-old Sergei, whose home is the maze of rubble that used to be the city of Stalingrad. None of them can know that their fates will be intertwined as the cataclysm engulfs them. (A)
Wulffson, Don – Soldier X
(226 pages) In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front. Based on a true story. (N)
Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
(550 pages) Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. (N)
Key
N= Synopsis from NoveList
K=Synopsis by librarian
A=Synopsis from Amazon.com
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