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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...
63) The shadow war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of teenagers fights dark magic and Nazis in 1940s Germany"--
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story, in their own words, of two survivors of World War II concentration camps, and two American soldiers who helped liberate the camps.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, their way of life there, and their eventual assimilation into society following the war.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Traces the lesser-known effort by an Allied division to find and secure European art that had been looted by the Nazis, outlining how they risked their lives and raced against time with limited supplies and scraps of information.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
160 p.
Language
English
Description
This book recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.
70) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
71) Lovely war
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
74) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
76) White Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
77) The wild blue
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
The men and boys who flew the B-24's over Germany.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Recounts the discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following years to researching the identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts and breaking new ground in the world of diving.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
80) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
For fourteen-year-old budding artist...