Aaron, Chester. Alex, Who Won His War. Walker & Co. 1991
Aside from the worry of his brother away fighting in the war, Alex's life goes on as usual, until one day while looking for treasure on the beach, he finds a body instead, and falls into the hands of two Nazi spies intent on sabotage. Grades 7-10
Aaron, Chester. Gideon. Lippincott, 1982
After losing his family and friends, blond, blue-eyed and Jewish Gideon must bury religion and identity in order to survive the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp during World War II. Grades 5-10
Ackerman, Karen. The night crossing. Knopf, 1994.
In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland.
Ackerman, Karen. When Mama Retires. Knopf, 1992
Henry, Will and Charley learn to do things around the house when Mama considers retiring from housework and becoming a wartime riveter. Grades K-3
Allan, Mabel Esther. A Lovely Tomorrow. Dodd, Mead, 1979
After her parents are killed by a rocket on New Year's Eve in London, fifteen-year-old Frue must leave her dreams to be an actress and rebuild her life in the wartime English countryside. Grades 6-9
Allan, Mabel Esther. A Strange Enchantment. Dodd, Mead, 1981
Sixteen-year-old city girl, Prim joins the Women's Land Army during World War II, expecting to love country life, but the conditions are much different than she expected, until she becomes re-acquainted with a teacher who was very harsh, but now seems to feel very differently towards her. Grades 7-10
Anderson, Margaret. Searching for Shona. Knopf, 1978
During the evacuation of children from Edinburgh in the early days of World War II, shy, wealthy Margaret, on her way to relatives in Canada, trades places and identities with the orphaned Shona, bound for the Scottish countryside. Grades 5-10
Anderson, Rachel. Paper Faces. Holt, 1993
Although life in London during World War II has been difficult for Dot and her mother, the young girl is frightened by the changes that the end of the war brings, particularly the impending return of the father she has never known.
Arnold, Elliott. A Kind of Secret Weapon. Scribner, 1969.
During the Danish winter of 1943, Peter Andersen discovers his parents printing an illegal newspaper and becomes involved in dangerous Nazi resistance work with them. Grades 4-8
Avi. "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?" Orchard Books, 1992.
In the early forties, when nearly everyone else is thinking about the war, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs. Grades 4-6
Avi. Don't you know there's a war on? HarperCollins, c2001.
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired. Grades 4-7
Baer, Edith. A Frost in the Night: a Novel. Pantheon, 1980
During the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Eva Bentheim's Jewish family enjoys a comfortable life, hardly noticing the hints of the Holocaust to come. Grades 5-12
Baer, Edith. Walk the dark streets : a novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
Baer, Frank. Max's Gang. Little, Brown, 1983
Max and a small group of friends, separated from their school group, beg, work, and steal to stay alive on the long journey from an evacuation camp in Czechoslovakia to their homes in Berlin. Grades 5-9
Banim, Lisa. American Dreams. Silver Moon Press, 1993
Developments in World War II force Amy Mochida and her family to move from Hollywood to an internment camp with other Japanese Americans, changing Amy's friendship with eleven-year-old Jeannie. Grades 4-6
Banks, Sara Harrell. Under the shadow of wings. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.
During 1944, life in rural Alabama brings changes for eleven-year-old Tattnall as she realizes that she cannot always protect her older, brain-damaged cousin.
Barrie, Barbara. Lone Star. Delacorte, 1990
Moving from Chicago to Corpus Christie, Texas, in 1944, Janie, a young Jewish girl, copes with her parents increased fighting, the possibility that her brother will go away to war, and the alienation of her orthodox grandfather, when she sneaks a tiny Christmas tree into the house at Hanukkah time. Grades 4-7
Bat-Ami, Miriam. Two Suns in the Sky. Front Street/Cricket Books, 1999.
A poignant historical novel that centers on a little-known event on the World War II homefront and two teenagers from different worlds.
Bauer, Marion Dane. Rain of Fire. Houghton Mifflin, 1983
All of his friends believe the stories Steve tells about his brother Matthew's heroism in World War II, until Celestino, the new kid in town call's Steve's bluff. Grades 4-7
Bawden, Nina. Carrie's War. Lippincott, 1973
Carrie is happy even though she is an evacuee in Wales because of the war, until she does something so terrible that it haunts her for thirty years. Grades 4-7
Bawden, Nina. Keeping Henry. Chivers Press, 1990.
Evacuated to the English countryside during World War II, a fatherless family tries to raise a baby squirrel that also lost its home.
Bawden, Nina. The Real Plato Jones. Clarion, 1993
Thirteen year-old Plato Jones tries to come to terms with his mixed hertage while visiting Greece, as he finds out more about his Welsh grandfater, a World War II hero, and his Greek grandfather, a supposed traitor.
Baylis-White, Mary. Sheltering Rebecca. Lodestar, 1991
In the days before the Second World War, twelve-year-old Sally becomes friends with Rebecca, a young Jewish refugee from Germany and learns what it means to be a refugee who was able to escape, knowing many family members are left behind and trapped. Grades 4-6
Bennett, Cherie. Anne Frank and Me. Putnam Publishing Group, 2001
Knocked unconscious after explosions ring out during a field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, Nicole Burns wakes to find herself living a parallel life as a Jew in 1942 Paris. Her family survives the Nazi occupation with the help of friends, but when her father is exposed as a resistant, their fate takes a dire turn, and Nicole finds herself riding in a crowded train car with Anne Frank. Grades 7-12
Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and Ten. Viking, 1952
A small group of homeless Jewish children are rescued and hidden by a nun and the children in the orphanage that she runs in France during the war.
Bloch, Marie Halun. Displaced Person. Lothrop, 1978
Fourteen-year-old Stefan, a Ukrainian refugee, struggles to survive as a displaced person in Nazi Germany during the final days of World War II. Grades 5-9
Blume, Judy. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself. Bradbury, 1977
In the year 1947, Sally thinks she's found Adolf Hitler, masquerading as an old Jewish man -- alive and well in Miami Beach, Florida. Grades 4-6
Booth, Martin. War dog : a novel. Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1996.
After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet is requisitioned by the British Army and sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searching for survivors of Germany's bombing raids on English cities, and in Italy at the end of the war. Grades 6-8
Borden, Louise. The little ships : the heroic rescue at Dunkirk in World War II. Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1997.
A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a Fable. David Fickling Books, 2006.
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. Grades 6-9
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For freedom : the story of a French spy. Delacorte Press, c2003.
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
Bunin, Sherry. Dear Great American Writers School. Houghton Mifflin, c1995.
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Lee's letters to a correspondence school describe her life in a small Kentucky town during World War II and her growth as a person and as a writer.
Bunting, Eve. Spying on Miss Müller. Clarion Books, 1995.
At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.
Burgess, Melvin. An angel for May. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995.
Tam travels back in time to his small English town at the time of World War II, where his friendship helps a traumatized girl living on a farm just outside the town.
Burton, Hester. In Spite of All Terror. World, 1968
When fifteen-year-old Liz is evacuated to the English countryside with the rest of her school at the beginning of the war, she finds the happiness she lost with the death of her father when she was twelve. Grades 6-10
Campbell, Barbara. Taking care of Yoki. Harper & Row, 1986, c1982.
In St. Louis during the Second World War, Bob makes secret plans to save the life of an old horse that pulls the milk delivery wagon. Grades 4-6
Carter, Peter. The hunted. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.
In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent.
Chang, Margaret and Raymond. In the eye of war. Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1990.
During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.
Ages 10-13.
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel, half-human : the good Nazi. translated by Doris Orgel. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Putnam, 1977
Sadako was two when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Now, ten years later, she has leukemia and has vowed to fold a thousand paper cranes so that the gods will grant her wish to make her well again. Grades 3-10
Cooper, Susan. Dawn of Fear. HBJ, 1970
The war between England and Germany is not as real to Derek, Peter and Geoff as their war with the gang of children from the White Road, until a bomb falls, changing their lives forever. Grades 3-6
Cormier, Robert. Other Bells for Us to Ring. Delacorte, 1990
Darcy learns all about Catholicism from her best friend, Kathleen Mary O'Hara, but it is an old nun who teaches her the true meaning of religion, when her father is declared Missing In Action, and Kathleen's whole family disappears. Grades 3-6
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