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The sun also rises: The Authorized Edition
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1954
A group of wealthy English and American expatriates in post-World War I Europe travel from the cafes of Paris to…
the bullfights of Spain--eating and drinking, aimlessly socializing, and quarreling among themselves. The disillusioned characters reflect the war-weary lost generation of the 1920s. Some strong language. 1926The necessary beggar
Par Susan Palwick. 2005
Darroti's entire family is exiled to the planet Earth after he is accused of killing a high-born woman. The clan…
is interned in a Nevada refugee camp where Darroti commits suicide. Surviving family members escape with the help of an American. For senior high and older readers. Alex Award. 2005Emil and Karl
Par Jacob Glatstein. 2006
Vienna, Austria; 1940. Two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one not, remain best friends despite the Nazi occupation's policy of…
racial hatred. After being orphaned, they rely on each other and the help of strangers while trying to escape the city. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1940The impossible knife of memory
Par Laurie Halse Anderson. 2014
After years living on the road, Hayley Kincain and her father move back to their hometown to try to lead…
a normal life. But the horrors her father saw in the war threaten to destroy them. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2014Angels in the gloom: a novel (World War One Ser.)
Par Anne Perry. 2005
Cambridge, England; 1916. After being wounded at Flanders, chaplain Joseph Reavley returns home to recuperate. When someone murders scientist Theo…
Blaine, Joseph searches the Scientific Establishment for the traitor, who may have also betrayed his parents. Sequel to Shoulder the Sky (RC 59439, BR 15592). 2005Eyes of the emperor
Par Graham Salisbury. 2005
Hawaii, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Eddy and his two buddies join the U.S. Army, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor their…
Japanese ancestry becomes a problem. They are commanded to serve as human targets for dogs training to hunt and kill enemy Japanese. Some violence. For grades 6-9. 2005Beasts of no nation: a novel
Par Uzodinma Iweala. 2005
Schoolboy Agu is forced to join guerrilla fighters when civil war erupts in his West African nation. In the company…
of other child soldiers, he becomes disassociated from his comfortable family home and abruptly accustomed to brutality and killing as he seeks to please his commandant. Violence. 2005How I won the war (A Ballantine book #U6110)
Par Patrick Ryan. 1967
Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody is quite determined that his platoon is what will help win the war against the Germans. Except…
people around him keep dying as he bumbles his way across the battlefields of the European theater. 1963Links
Par Nuruddin Farah. 2004
New York professor Jeebleh returns to his native Somalia after two decades to settle his late mother's accounts and pacify…
her spirit. He discovers a war-torn Mogadiscio run by warlords. To help a friend free his captured niece, Jeebleh struggles with corruption and his own conscience. 2003The Victory Club
Par Robin Lee Hatcher. 1996
Boise, Idaho; 1943. Four friends--Penelope, Lucy, Margo, and her daughter Dottie--face hardships while working at an airfield to help the…
war effort. Lucy prays for her pilot husband and Margo prays for her son. Meanwhile Dottie discovers that she's expecting an illegitimate child and hopes for God's forgiveness. 2005Heroes don't run: A Novel of the Pacific War (Boy at War Ser.)
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. 2005Rules for old men waiting: a novel
Par Peter R Pouncey. 2005
Widowed history professor Robert MacIver quietly mourns his wife's death at their home on Cape Cod. MacIver, originally from Scotland,…
passes the time by writing a World War I novel and reminiscing about his own life and the death of his only child in Vietnam. Some descriptions of sex. 2005Megiddo's shadow
Par Arthur G. Slade. 2006
After the death of his beloved older brother in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the Canadian family farm to…
enlist. Edward is assigned to the cavalry, with his own horse, before being sent to Palestine, where he learns the horror of war. For junior and senior high readers. 2006The warlord's son
Par Dan Fesperman. 2004
A burned-out war correspondent named Skelly, seeking the scoop of a lifetime meets up with an exiled warlord's quixotic expedition…
to Afghanistan. Guiding Skelly's way is Najeeb, a tribal Pakistani with his own objectives. UnratedMarika
Par 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. 2002The virtues of war: a novel of Alexander the Great
Par Steven Pressfield. 2004
Alexander of Macedonia relates the story of his battles and passions to his young brother-in-law, Itanes, as his weary army…
readies to invade India. The king reflects on his illustrious father, Philip, and his homeland, as well as his conquest of the known world. Violence and strong language. 2004Ghost riders: a novel (Ballad Ser. #No. 7)
Par Sharyn McCrumb. 2003
The Civil War reverberates throughout several interwoven storylines. In the 1860s, Malinda Blalock, disguised as a boy, accompanies her husband…
to war. Meanwhile, North Carolina congressman Zebulon Vance postpones politics to raise a militia. Decades later, battle reenactors encounter ghosts of Union and Confederate soldiers. Some violence. 2003A boy no more
Par 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. 2004B for Buster
Par Iain Lawrence. 2004
Sixteen-year-old Canadian "Kak" lies about his age to join the air force in 1943. He becomes part of a crew…
flying deadly bombing raids over Germany and fears for his life. Bert, an ex-pilot who trains homing pigeons to accompany the planes, comforts Kak. For senior high readers. 2004The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II soldier (My Name is America)
Par 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. 1999