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Par Harry Mazer. 2005
1944. To honor his father, who died during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam Pelko eagerly enlists…
in the Marine Corps. Adam goes through boot camp and faces combat on the tiny island Okinawa. Sequel to Boy No More (DB 59432). For grades 6-9. 2005Par Andrea Cheng. 2002
World War II. Although Marika has been raised Catholic, her family name, Schnurmacher, reveals her Jewish heritage. This legacy is…
dangerous because Marika lives in Hungary, where Jews face discrimination and persecution. For grades 6-9. 2002Par Harry Mazer. 2004
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated to California.…
Adam deals with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, and his own identity. Sequel to Boy at War (RC 52594, BR 13647). For grades 6-9. 2004Par Walter Dean Myers. 1999
Europe, 1944. American teenage soldier Scott Collins describes the Omaha Beach invasion, in which many men in his company are…
killed. Writing home, he details his experiences as he fights across France, receives a promotion, and suffers a wound. For grades 4-7. 1999Par Brad Strickland. 2003
Caribbean, 1688. Davy Shea and the rest of the Aurora's crew continue their search begun in The Guns of Tortuga…
(BR 15069) for pirate king Jack Steele. The pirate implicates Captain William Hunter as the real culprit behind the rampant plunder while Hunter's crew struggles to find Steele's warship. For grades 4-7. 2003Par Brad Strickland. 2002
In 1687 eleven-year-old Irish orphan Davy sails to Jamaica to live with his uncle, Dr. "Patch" Shea. They join a…
British frigate where Patch and his friend Lieutenant William Hunter help stage an aborted mutiny. Fleeing, the mutineers commandeer a sloop and masquerade as pirates. Precedes Guns of Tortuga (BR 15069). For grades 4-7. 2002Par Brad Strickland. 2003
In this sequel to Mutiny! (BR 14999), Davy Shea continues to assist his physician uncle Patch aboard Captain Hunter's warship…
that is on a secret mission to rid the sea of pirates. The captain sends Davy to Tortuga island to uncover the plans of evil pirate Jack Steele hiding there. For grades 4-7. 2003Par Jacqueline Davies. 2002
During World War II, Hazel and her parents move to New Mexico where her father works on a confidential army…
project. Hazel's mother has trouble adjusting while Hazel and her curious classmates ferret out spies and the big secret. For grades 5-8. 2002Par Dean Hughes. 2001
Two teenagers--Spencer Morgan, an American Mormon from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick from Germany--eagerly join the armies of their countries during…
World War II. Their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge, where they learn that war is more than bravado. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001Par Lois Lowry. 1989
For ten-year-old Annemarie, life in occupied Copenhagen in 1943 is not much changed by the war--until the Nazi persecution of…
Danish Jews begins. Annemarie's family helps a Jewish friend by having her pose as Annemarie's dead sis- ter. When a packet must be taken to the captain of a ship smuggling Jews to Sweden, Annemarie learns that being brave means "not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do." For grades 3-6 and older readers. Newbery Medal. 1989Par Cynthia Voigt. 1988
In 1920 twelve-year-old Clothilde lives with her family on an isolated peninsula waiting for her father to return from the…
war. When he arrives, maimed and broken, he retreats to the boathouse. A mysterious voice helps Clothilde breach the gulf between her father and the rest of the family. For grades 6-9Par Lynne Banks. 1984
On her way home from her Belfast school, Maura is knocked flat by a bomb's blast. When she looks around,…
she is amazed to see a naked girl who looks just like her. Maura must teach this new acquaintance to walk, eat, and even sleep. In return, Maura and her family experience wonderful changes while in her presence. For grades 4-7Par Elizabeth Jones. 1999
North Carolina, 1918. While her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam tends his homing pigeons. When…
a stranger with a foreign accent offers to buy all of her birds, she suspects him of being a German spy. For grades 3-6. Edgar Allan Poe Award. 1999Par Ann Rinaldi. 1998
South Carolina colony, 1780. Caroline Whitaker, fourteen, is a virtual house prisoner of the British after her rebel father is…
jailed. Men from both sides maraud through the countryside spreading terror. But she and her slave grandmother venture out to rescue Caroline's brother Johnny. Some violence. For grades 6-9. 1998Par Ida Vos. 1996
When the Germans begin persecuting Jews in Holland during the 1940s occupation, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume new names…
and move from one hiding place to another. The girls are separated from their parents as they try to stay one step ahead of the Nazis. For grades 4-7. 1996Par Norma Mazer. 1999
After spending years fleeing the Nazis in war-torn Europe, Karin Levi, twelve, and her fourteen-year-old brother, Marc, reach a refugee…
camp in Oswego, New York. They gradually learn English and assimilate into American society. Karin writes letters to her mother until Marc informs his sister of her death. For grades 5-8. 1999Par Katherine Ayres. 1999
During World War II twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates in Pennsylvania collect scrap metal to help in the war effort.…
When the collection is stolen from the school, Charlotte takes a major risk to find the thief. For grades 4-7. 1999Par Harry Mazer. 2001
December 7, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Adam lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his father is stationed on a battleship. Adam and two…
of his classmates are fishing in a rowboat when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Although wounded, Adam is conscripted to help the survivors. For grades 6-9. 2001Par Valerie Tripp, Jeanne Thieme, C. F. Payne. 1989
During World War II, Molly's third-grade class participates in the Lend-a-Hand Contest to help the war effort. The boys decide…
to collect tinfoil, and the girls decide to knit socks, but none of them can knit very well. At the last minute, Molly comes up with a new idea. Sequel to Meet Molly (DB 43831). For grades 2-4Par Jane Cutler. 1994
At first World War II seems exciting as Ellen, eleven, and her friends eagerly track events and stage their own…
battles. A German Jewish family even moves into the neighborhood, and Ellen's father wishes he could enlist. But over the next few years, the war becomes more real as Ellen's young uncle is sent overseas. For grades 5-8