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Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Abridged edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Things at school have changed and at home Nanea's brother is talking about enlisting in the military; Nanea is having trouble coping with all these changes and turns to hula dancing to help her feel better.
Author
Series
War That Saved My Life volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As World War II creeps closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the crowded cottage she shares with her brother, their legal guardian, and a German Jewish refugee.
44) Willow Run
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her.
45) Mask
Author
Series
The League of Secret Heroes volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
�2010
Edition
1st Square Fish ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Working as a department store window dresser while her soldier father and brother serve in World War II, a descendant of Cinderella strives to protect her ancestor's magnificent ball gown from the wicked stepsisters' progeny while falling for a handsome boy.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda.
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.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Abridged edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Nanea Mitchell thinks she is grown up enough to help in her grandparent's market, but before she can prove herself, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the naval base where her father works, and suddenly her island way of life is changed forever.
52) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
53) Cape
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Soon after being recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Boudica to join a secret military intelligence operation, Josie, Mae, and Akiko discover their superhero abilities and use them to thwart a Nazi plot to steal the ENIAC computer.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
55) Brave Emily
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 p. : col. ill.; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emily Bennett, a young English girl, is sent to stay with Molly's family to escape the bonbing of London, she immpresses Molly with her math skills, but a small lie she tells develops into a big problem.
56) The Enigma Game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
300 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
59) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
col. ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have itdisappear from the school basement.