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Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
162) The bicycle spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
163) Awol in North Africa
Author
Series
Ghosts of war volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie have been doing everything they can to avoid the battered trunk full of old military things in the basement of his family's junk shop. Only, staying away seems impossible, and this time Anderson discovers a dusty World War II medic's bag inside the trunk. But who does it belong to?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen's home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max's family, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max and his sister, Zena, had Papa with them... Until 2 months ago, when the Nazis took him away. Now Max and Zena are on their own.
One day, with barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forests. They are found by Jewish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Your mission, find Victor Dowd's missing sketchbook, and discover one of the most unusual stories of World War II. Meet the 603rd Camouflage Engineers, better known as the Ghost Army. This group of artists and sound engineers were trained to deceive the Germans in World War II with everything from fake tanks to loudspeakers broadcasting the sound of marching troops. And meet Victor Dowd, a real-life sergeant who with his fellow Ghost Army troops fought...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p., [3] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
172) Born to fly
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
175) A horse called Hero
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the brink of World War II, a family is forced out of their London home and into the countryside. Wolfie and his older sister Dodo are devastated to leave behind everything they've ever known, but they slowly settle into their new life. One day they come across an orphaned foal, which they raise as Hero, a strong and beautiful horse who lives up to his name when he saves the children from a fire. Wolfie and Dodo find comfort in their new life, but...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xxiii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The WWII invasion of Allied troops into German-occupied Europe, known as D-Day, was the largest military endeavor in history. By the time it occurred on June 6, 1944, Hitler and the Axis powers had a chokehold grip on the European continent, which the Allies called "Fortress Europe." Behind enemy lines, Nazi Germany was engaged in the mass extermination of the Jewish people and the oppression of civilians across Europe. The goal of D-Day was no less...
177) Heroes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. With their dads stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the boys get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. World War II might be raging overseas, but so far America has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right?
December 7, 1941: Everything implodes.
Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead,...
178) The night war
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages : map, photograph ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--