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The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende; Frances Riddle (Translator)
Call Number: LR PQ8098.1.L54 W5613 2023

ISBN: 9780593598122

Publication Date: 2024-05-28

Ballantine Books
260 Pages
Ages X-X

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita's mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers--and never stop dreaming.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

World war, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Austria--Fiction.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Noncitizen detention centers--United States--Fiction.
War and families--Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
Call Number: F DENENB

ISBN: 9780439095181

Publication Date: 2000-10-01

Scholastic
250 Pages
Ages 12+

For the first time, a Dear America story is being told in two parts -- complete in one volume! Julie Weiss's world is suddenly torn apart by a war that will forever change the face of humanity. Her life as a privileged Jewish girl quickly becomes one of humiliation and terror. In part two, Julie has left Nazi Austria for New York, where she begins a new life with her extended family who she has never met.

Sears Subject Headings

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Fiction.
Jews--Austria--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Austria--History--1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

Anya's War by Andrea Alban
Call Number: F ALBAN

ISBN: 9780312370930

Publication Date: 2011-02-01

Feiwel and Friends
Ages 11-14
188 Pages

Anya Rosen and her family have left their home in Odessa for Shanghai, believing that China will be a safe haven from Hitler's forces. At first, Anya's life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her hero, Amelia Earhart. Then Anya finds a baby--a newborn abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes dangerously clear that no place is safe--not for Jewish families like the Rosens, not for Shanghai's poor, not for adventurous women pilots. Based on a true story, here is a rich, transcendent novel about a little-known time in Holocaust history.

Alban's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Fiction--Jews--Shanghai (China).
Historical Fiction.
Fiction--Abandoned children.
Fiction--Immigration and emigration.
Fiction--Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
Shanghai (China)--History--Fiction.
China--History--1912-1949--Fiction.

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Call Number: F CHEE

ISBN: 9780358131434

Publication Date: 2020-09-01

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
384 Pages
Ages 12+

We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

Sears Subject Headings:

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Racism.
Concentration camps.
Japanese American families.
Japanese Americans.
Prejudices.
Concentration camps--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese American families--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps--United States--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
California--History--20th century--Fiction.
California--History--Juvenile fiction.
California--History--Fiction.
Young adult works.
Social problem fiction.

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
Call Number: F FAKUDA

ISBN: 9781250192387

Publication Date: 2020-01-07

Tor Teen
382 Pages
Ages 13-18

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."--Andrew Fukuda

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature. From the desolation of an internment camp on the plains of Manzanar to the horrors of Auschwitz and the devastation of European battlefields, the only thing they can hold onto are the memories of their letters. But nothing can dispel the light between them.

Macmillan Publishers Website

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Army--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Fiction.
Pen pals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.
Fiction.

Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
Call Number: F NAGAI

ISBN: 9781250159212

Publication Date: 2019-10-15

Henry Holt and Company
293 Pages
Ages 10-14
A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II. Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they've known begins to unravel when her father is recruited to the Japanese army, and Natsu and her little sister, Cricket, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to keep her sister alive, Natsu sells Cricket to a Russian family following the 1945 Soviet occupation. The journey to redemption for Natsu's broken family is rife with struggles, but Natsu is tenacious and will stop at nothing to get her little sister back. Literary and historically insightful, this is one of the great untold stories of WWII.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--China--Manchuria--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Refugees, Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945--Juvenile fictions.
Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
Call Number: F ISAACS

ISBN: 9780590603638

Publication Date: 2000-04-01

Scholastic Press
188 Pages
Ages 12+

Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles amid ever worsening dangers to save her life and that of her sick sister, readers witness how two teenagers strive to create home and family amidst inhumanity and chaos. Written in exquisite prose, this story of heartbreak and hope that is rich in detail and symbolism will deeply move readers of all ages.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
World war, 1939-1945--Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Jews--Europe--Fiction.

The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
Call Number: F LETTS

ISBN: 9780525644743

Publication Date: 2019-02-12

Delacorte Press
xvii, 253 Pages
Ages 8-12

When American Colonel Hank Reed and his soldiers captures a German spy, they uncover an unexpected secret: Hitler has kidnapped the world's finest purebred horses and hidden them in a secret Czechoslovakian breeding farm. But, starving Russian troops are drawing closer and the horses face the danger of becoming food instead. With little time to spare, the small American troop cross enemy lines to heroically save some of the world's most treasured animals. Elizabeth Letts details the terrifying truth of Hitler's eugenics program during World War II and shares the story of the courageous American troop dedicated to stopping it. Highlighting bravery in the face of incredible odds, this tale will shed light on a little-known piece of our past and speak to history fans and animal lovers of every age.

Sears Subject Headings:

Podhajsky, Alois--Fiction
United States--Army--History--World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Lipizzaner horse--Fiction.
Arabian horse--Fiction.
Horses--Fiction,
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

Impossible Escape: a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 940.5318 Sh42i 2023

ISBN: 9781250265722

Publication Date: 2023-08-29

Roaring Brook Press
xi, 243 Pages
Ages 12-18

This is the true story of Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba. In 1944, he was just a teenager when he did the impossible and escaped Auschwitz, becoming one of the first survivors to share with the world what was actually going on in the Nazi concentration camps. But before he escaped, before he became one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, he had to survive the concentration camp.This is also the story of Gerta Sidonová, his highschool friend who fled from Slovakia to Hungary with her family. There, she lived under assumed names and hid her Jewish identity. Every day, she risked being found out as Hungary began to cave under pressure from German Nazis. Rudi and Gerta's parallel storylines bring them together as the clock ticks down for Gerta and her family, and Rudi edges towards escape.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile Literature.
Jews--Persecutions--Juvenile Literature.
World war, 1939-1945--Children Juvenile Literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Jews--Persecutions.
World war, 1939-1945--Children.

Library Science Fiction

Number the Stars by Lowry Lois
Call Number: F LOWRY

ISBN: 9780440227533

Publication Date: 1998-02-09

Houghton Mifflin Co.
137 Pages
Ages 9+

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Denmark--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Denmark--History--Germany occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.

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The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Call Number: PS3613.E488 S53 2020

ISBN: 9780393083569

Publication Date: 2019-09-24

W. W. Norton & Company
428 Pages
Ages X-X

With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. Meanwhile, Mussolini's technologically advanced army prepares for an easy victory. Hundreds of thousands of Italians--Jewish photographer Ettore among them--march on Ethiopia seeking adventure. As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. But how could she have predicted her own personal war as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers, who will force her to pose before Ettore's camera? What follows is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ethiopia--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Fiction.

Leisure Reading

Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
Call Number: LR PS3571.R74 G66 2023

ISBN: 9798885792707

Publication Date: 2023-09-27

Little, Brown and Company
407 Pages
Ages X-X

In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact. Taking as inspiration his mother's own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women's heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea's "gifts as a storyteller are prodigious" (NPR).

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
Red Cross and Red Crescent--Fiction.
Female Friendship--Fiction.

The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
Call Number: LR PS3611.E452 G65 2023

ISBN: 9780593354902

Publication Date: 2024-04-02

Ballantine Books
511 Pages
Ages X-X

American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie's mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette's son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission: Josie is working for U.S. Army Intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love. Martha Hall Kelly has garnered acclaim for her stunning combination of empathy and research into the stories of women throughout history and for exploring the terrors of Ravensbrück. With The Golden Doves, she has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II--and the unsung female spies who risked it all to bring them to justice.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Ravensbruck (Concentration Camp)--Fiction.
Women spies--France--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--United States--Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Ravensbruck--20th century--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Fiction.
Nazis--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
War criminals--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Call Number: LR PS3612.A279 L 53 2023

ISBN: 0063297124

Publication Date: 2023-02-21

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
390 Pages
Ages 13+

A captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm. Then Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her Berlin, and soon she's drawn into a group of resisters who make her question everything she knows about her hosts--and herself. Paris 1936. She may have escaped Berlin for Paris, but Hannah Brecht discovers the City of Light is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she left behind. Heartbroken and tormented by the role she played in the betrayal that destroyed her family, Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books. Through the quiet power of books, she believes she can help counter the tide of fascism she sees rising across Europe and atone for her mistakes. But when a dear friend decides actions will speak louder than words, Hannah must decide what stories she is willing to live--or die--for. New York 1944. Since her husband Edward was killed fighting the Nazis, Vivian Childs has been waging her own war: preventing a powerful senator's attempts to censor the Armed Service Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas. Viv knows just how much they mean to the men through the letters she receives--including the last one she got from Edward. She also knows the only way to win this battle is to counter the senator's propaganda with a story of her own--at the heart of which lies the reclusive and mysterious woman tending the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books in Brooklyn. As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever. Inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime--the WWII organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, and authors to use books as "weapons in the war of ideas."

Sears Subject Headings:

Librarians--Fiction
Women authors--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
FICTION/ women.
FICTION/ War & Military.
FICTION/ Romance--LGBTQ+.
FICTION/ Friendship.
FICTION/ Historical--20th Century--World War II.
Books and reading
Censorship
Librarians
Widows
Women
Women authors
Librarians--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Paris (France)--History--Fiction.
United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
France--Paris.
Germany.
United States.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels.
History.

The Librarian Spy: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
Call Number: LR PS3613.A78326 L53 2022

ISBN: 9781335427489

Publication Date: 2022-07-26

Hanover Square Press
355 Pages
Ages 18+

Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them. As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War--(1939-1945).
1939-1945.
Women librarians--Fiction.
Women spies--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Librarians--Fiction.
FICTION--Historical--World War II.
FICTION--Women.
FICTION--Friendship.
Librarians.
War--Underground movements.
Women.
Women librarians.
Women spies.
Librarians--Fiction.
Lisbon (Portugal)--Fiction.
France.
Portugal--Lisbon.
Lisbon (Portugal).
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Spy fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
War stories.
Spy stories.

Library Science Fiction

The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: F BRADLE

ISBN: 9780735228566

Publication Date: 2024-04-09

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers
284 Pages
Ages 9-12

"We don't choose how we feel, but we choose how we act." It's 1942. German Nazis occupy much of France. And twelve-year-old Miriam, who is Jewish, is not safe. With help and quick thinking, Miri is saved from the roundup that takes her entire Jewish neighborhood. She escapes Paris, landing in a small French village, where the spires of the famous Chateau de Chenonceau rise high into the sky, its bridge across the River Cher like a promise, a fairy tale. But Miri's life is no fairy tale. Her parents are gone--maybe alive, maybe not. Taken in at the boarding school near the chateau, pretending to be Catholic to escape Nazi capture, Miri volunteers one night to undertake a deadly task, one that spans the castle grounds, its bridge, and the very border to freedom. Here is her chance to escape--hopefully to find her parents. But will she take it? One thing is certain: The person Miri meets that night will save her life. And the person Miri becomes that night could save the lives of many more.

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: F DOERR

ISBN: 9781476746593

Publication Date: 2030-12-31

Scribner
531 Pages
Ages 14+

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. They carry with them perhaps the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a German mining town, an orphan named Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. He becomes expert at fixing these new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. Increasingly aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

Sears Subject Headings:

Blind--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth--France--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth-Germany--Fiction.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Historical.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Saint-Malo (France)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
Call Number: F FAKUDA

ISBN: 9781250192387

Publication Date: 2020-01-07

Tor Teen
382 Pages
Ages 13-18

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."--Andrew Fukuda

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature. From the desolation of an internment camp on the plains of Manzanar to the horrors of Auschwitz and the devastation of European battlefields, the only thing they can hold onto are the memories of their letters. But nothing can dispel the light between them.

Macmillan Publishers Website

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Army--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Fiction.
Pen pals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.
Fiction.

Resistance by Janet Graber
Call Number: F GRABER

ISBN: 9780761452140

Publication Date: 2005-04-01

Marshall Cavendish
138 Pages
Ages 12-15

It is 1942, and German troops have invaded France. Marianne's mother has joined the Resistance, and Marianne disapproves. Her father has already been killed in the fighting-must her mother risk their lives as well? When her mother hides a wounded English soldier in the cellar of their woodshed, Marianne is filled with dread. She struggles between the impulse to give up the soldier and save her family, and the desire to help her country fight the occupying army.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France-Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Odette's Secrets by Maryann Macdonald
Call Number: F MACDON

ISBN: 9781599907505

Publication Date: 2013-02-26

Bloomsbury
225 Pages
Ages 9-14

Odette is a young Jewish girl living in Paris during a dangerous time. The Nazis have invaded the city, and every day brings new threats. After Odette's father enlists in the French army and her mother joins the Resistance, Odette is sent to the countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, she leads the life of a regular girl--going to school, doing chores, and even attending Catholic Mass with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets about the life she left behind and her true identity. Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyers--and written in moving free-verse poetry--this is the story of courage, of determination to survive, and of a young girl forced to hide in plain sight.

Sears Subject Headings:

Meyers, Odette--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Meyers, Odette--Childhood and youth--Fiction.
Jews--France--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--France, Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--Europe.
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--Holocaust.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo
Call Number: F MORPUR

ISBN: 9780670837359

Publication Date: 1991-04-01

Viking
172 Pages
Ages 10+

Jo did not stop until he’d shut the door behind him and even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears. Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, and Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo’s slightest mistake could have devastating consequences …

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction.
Jews--France--Fiction.
France--History--Germany occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.

Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Call Number: F NIELSE

ISBN: 9781338620993

Publication Date: 2021-03-02

Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
387 Pages
Ages 8-12

Six hundred and fifty-seven days ago, Meg Kenyon's father left their home in France to fight for the Allies in World War II, and that was the last time Meg saw him. Recently, she heard he was being held prisoner by the Nazis, a terrible sentence from which Meg fears he'll never return. All she has left of him are the codes he placed in a jar for her to decipher, an affectionate game the two of them shared. But the codes are running low, and soon there'll be nothing left of Papa for Meg to hold on to at all. Suddenly, an impossible chance to save her father falls into Meg's lap. After following a trail of blood in the snow, Meggie finds an injured British spy hiding in her grandmother's barn. Captain Stewart tells her that a family of German refugees must be guided across Nazi-occupied France to neutral Spain, whereupon one of them has promised to free Meg's father. Captain Stewart was meant to take that family on their journey, but too injured to complete the task himself, he offers it to Meg, along with a final code from Papa to help complete the mission -- perhaps the most important, and most difficult, riddle she's received yet. As the Nazis flood Meg's village in fierce pursuit, she accepts the duty and begins the trek across France. Leading strangers through treacherous territory, Meg faces danger and uncertainty at every turn, all the while struggling to crack her father's code. The message, as she unravels it, reveals secrets costly enough to risk the mission and even her own life. Can Meg solve the puzzle, rescue the family, and save her father?

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--France--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France--Juvenile fiction.
Families--France--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France--Fiction. Ciphers--Fiction.
Perche (France)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Perche (France)--History--20th century--Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.

Touch Wood by Renee Roth-Hano
Call Number: F ROTH

ISBN: 9780140340853

Publication Date: 1989-10-01

Four Winds Press
297 Pages
Ages 10-14

In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Renee, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renee and her sister escape to the shelter of a Catholic school in Normandy.

Sears Subject Headings:

Roth-Hano, Renee--1931---Juvenile fiction.
Roth-Hano, Renee--1931---Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Jews--France--Fiction.
World War--1939-1945--France--Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction
Historical fiction.

Rose under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: F WEIN

ISBN: 9781423183099

Publication Date: 2013-09-10

Hyperion
360 Pages
Ages 16+

While ferrying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women, including a once glamorous French novelist; a resilient young Polish girl who has been used as a human guinea pig by Nazi doctors; and a female fighter pilot for the Soviet air force. Trapped in this bleak place under horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that be enough to enable Rose to endure the fate that is in store for her?

Sears Subject Headings:

Ravensbruck (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Air pilots--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Fiction.

Leisure Reading

The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
Call Number: LR PS3611.E452 G65 2023

ISBN: 9780593354902

Publication Date: 2024-04-02

Ballantine Books
511 Pages
Ages X-X

American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie's mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette's son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission: Josie is working for U.S. Army Intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love. Martha Hall Kelly has garnered acclaim for her stunning combination of empathy and research into the stories of women throughout history and for exploring the terrors of Ravensbrück. With The Golden Doves, she has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II--and the unsung female spies who risked it all to bring them to justice.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Ravensbruck (Concentration Camp)--Fiction.
Women spies--France--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--United States--Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Ravensbruck--20th century--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Fiction.
Nazis--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
War criminals--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Call Number: LR PS3612.A279 L 53 2023

ISBN: 0063297124

Publication Date: 2023-02-21

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
390 Pages
Ages 13+

A captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm. Then Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her Berlin, and soon she's drawn into a group of resisters who make her question everything she knows about her hosts--and herself. Paris 1936. She may have escaped Berlin for Paris, but Hannah Brecht discovers the City of Light is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she left behind. Heartbroken and tormented by the role she played in the betrayal that destroyed her family, Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books. Through the quiet power of books, she believes she can help counter the tide of fascism she sees rising across Europe and atone for her mistakes. But when a dear friend decides actions will speak louder than words, Hannah must decide what stories she is willing to live--or die--for. New York 1944. Since her husband Edward was killed fighting the Nazis, Vivian Childs has been waging her own war: preventing a powerful senator's attempts to censor the Armed Service Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas. Viv knows just how much they mean to the men through the letters she receives--including the last one she got from Edward. She also knows the only way to win this battle is to counter the senator's propaganda with a story of her own--at the heart of which lies the reclusive and mysterious woman tending the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books in Brooklyn. As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever. Inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime--the WWII organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, and authors to use books as "weapons in the war of ideas."

Sears Subject Headings:

Librarians--Fiction
Women authors--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
FICTION/ women.
FICTION/ War & Military.
FICTION/ Romance--LGBTQ+.
FICTION/ Friendship.
FICTION/ Historical--20th Century--World War II.
Books and reading
Censorship
Librarians
Widows
Women
Women authors
Librarians--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Paris (France)--History--Fiction.
United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
France--Paris.
Germany.
United States.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels.
History.

Library Science Fiction

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: F BARTOL

ISBN: 9780439680134

Publication Date: 2008-02-01

Scholastic Press
202 Pages
Ages 9-12

When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.

Sears Subject Headings:

Hubener, Helmuth--1925-1942--Juvenile fiction.
Hubener, Helmuth--1925-1942--Fiction.
Courage--Juvenile fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement--Juvenile fiction.
Courage--Fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.

The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: F BRADLE

ISBN: 9780525429203

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Dial Books for Young Readers
385 Pages
Ages 8-12

Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighter for the ages. Her triumphant World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life When Ada awakes from surgery on her club foot, the news that greets her will change the course of her life. Doors that her mother had shut tightly are swinging open. But World War II rages on, Ada and her brother, Jamie, are forced to move into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth arrives. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. A German? Could Ruth be a spy? As the fallout from the war intensifies, calamity creeps closer to Ada's doorstep, and life grows more complicated. Who will Ada decide to be? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save?

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
Guardian and ward--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Jews--Great Britain--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption.
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe.
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience.
Great Britain--History--George VI,1936-1952--Fiction.
Fiction.

Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman
Call Number: F CHAPMA

ISBN: 9780374177447

Publication Date: 2010-03-16

Farrar Straus Giroux
205 Pages
Ages 10+

In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience. Includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jewish refugees--Fiction.
Jews--Germany--Fiction.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Fiction.
Chicago (ILL.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Fiction.

Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali; Penny Hueston (Translator)
Call Number: F COHENS

ISBN: 9781626720718

Publication Date: 2017-03-07

Roaring Books Press
421 Pages
Ages 15+

Nazi Germany. 1936. In the Lebensborn program, carefully selected German women are recruited by the Nazis to give birth to new members of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, literally counting the minutes until he is born and he can fulfill his destiny as the perfect Aryan specimen. Max is taken away from his birth mother soon after he enters the world. Raised under the ideology and direction of the Nazi Party, he grows up without any family, without any affection or tenderness, and he soon becomes the mascot of the program. That is until he meets Lukas, a young Jewish boy whom he knows he is meant to despise. Instead, the friendship that blossoms changes Max's world forever. Translated from the original French, Sarah Cohen-Scali brings the details of the Lebensborn program to light in this haunting and heartbreaking novel.

Sears Subject Headings:

Nazis--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--Holocaust.
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--Europe.
JUVENILE FICTION--Science & Technology.
German--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

The Visit by T. Degens
Call Number: F DEGENS

ISBN: 9780670747122

Publication Date: 1982-10-11

Viking Press
150 Pages
Ages 12-15

At a family gathering in Berlin years after World War II, Kate relives some of the events described in the diary of a dead aunt who once was a member of the Hitler Youth.

Sears Subject Heading:

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction.
Aunts--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: F DOERR

ISBN: 9781476746593

Publication Date: 2030-12-31

Scribner
531 Pages
Ages 14+

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. They carry with them perhaps the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a German mining town, an orphan named Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. He becomes expert at fixing these new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. Increasingly aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

Sears Subject Headings:

Blind--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth--France--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth-Germany--Fiction.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Historical.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Saint-Malo (France)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

The Bridge Builder's Story: A Novel by Howard Fast
Call Number: F FAST

ISBN: 9781563246913

Publication Date: 1995-12-31

M.E. Sharpe
210 Pages
Ages X-X

In 1939 in Berlin, an American tourist and his wife are arrested as spies. The wife is tortured to death, but the husband escapes. The novel follows him as he attempts to live down that tragedy, first as an officer in the U.S. Army, later in trying to find someone to love. By the author of Seven Days in June.

Discussion Questions

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Love Stories.
War Stories.

Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
Call Number: F GITWIT

ISBN: 9780593112083

Publication Date: 2024-02-27

Dutton Children's Books
320 Pages
Ages 11+

Max Bretzfeld doesn't want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he's been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible- becoming a British spy. The first book in a duology, Max in the House of Spies is a thought-provoking World War II story as only acclaimed storyteller Adam Gidwitz can tell it fast-paced and hilarious, with a dash of magic and a lot of heart.

Sears Subject Headings:

Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Juvenile fiction.
Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
Spirits--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Fiction.
Jews--England, Fiction.
Spies--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Jewish refugees--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Spies--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction
Berlin (Germany)--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy fiction.
Novels.

Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz
Call Number: F GRATZ

ISBN: 9780545880169

Publication Date: 2016-10-11

Scholastic Press
309 Pages
Ages 10-15

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael despises everything the Nazis stand for. But he joins in the Hitler Youth's horrific games and book burnings, playing the part so he can gain insider knowledge. When Michael learns about Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi war mission, things get even more complicated. He must prove his loyalty to the Hitler Youth at all costs -- even if it means risking everything he cares about. Including... his own life. From acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087) comes a pulse-pounding novel about facing fears and fighting for what matters most.

Sears Subject Headings:

Hitler-jugend--Juvenile fiction.
Hitler youth--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
Espionage, British--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
Diplomatic and consular service, Irish--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
Irish--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
Jet planes--Germany--History--Juvenile fiction.
Spy stories.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction
Jet planes--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction
Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Germany-History--1918-1945--Fiction
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction
Adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

Refugee by Alan Gratz
Call Number: F GRATZ

ISBN: 9781432874049

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Scholastic Press
Ages 8+
338 Pages

Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Sears Subject Headings:

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.

They Went Left by Monica Hesse
Call Number: F HESSE

ISBN: 9780316490573

Publication Date: 2020-04-07

Little, Brown, Company
364 Pages
Ages 14+

Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"-- Provided by publisher.; Germany, 1945. The Gross-Rosen concentration camp have been liberated, but nothing feels over to Zofia Lederman. Three years ago she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else-- parents, grandmother, Aunt Maja-- went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise to find him. That vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? -- adapted from jacket

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Europe--History--1945---Fiction.
Poland--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Call Number: F KESSLE

ISBN: 9781534499652

Publication Date: 2021-05-18

Aladdin
viii, 337 Pages
Ages 12+

Three friends. One memory. Vienna.1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe--to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland--will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
Call Number: F KILLEE

ISBN: 9780451478733

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Viking
423 Pages
Ages 14+

Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them. If she can befriend the daughter of a key scientist and get invited to her house, she might be able to steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. Nothing could prepare Sarah for her cutthroat schoolmates, and soon she finds herself in a battle for survival unlike any she'd ever imagined. But anyone who underestimates this innocent-seeming girl does so at their peril. She may look sweet, but she's the Nazis' worst nightmare.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Imposters and imposture--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Impersonation--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction.
Imposters and imposture--Fiction.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Historical--Holocaust.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--School & Education--Boarding School & Prep School.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Thrillers & Suspense.
Imposters and imposture.
Jews.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Spy fiction.

Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
Call Number: F MATAS

ISBN: 9780590469203

Publication Date: 1993-04-01

Scholastic
136 Pages
Ages 9-14

A young Jewish boy recalls life in Hitler's Germany. Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust.

Activity Guide
Matas' Website
Includes why/how she wrote the book
Scholastic Press Website
Teacher Guide

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish, (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.
Fiction.

What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
Call Number: F STAMPE

ISBN: 9781524700386

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Alfred A. Knopf
266 Pages
Ages 15+

After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone. Without her papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and on to living her life. In the displaced persons camp where she is staying, Gerta meets Lev, a fellow teen survivor who she just might be falling for, despite her feelings for someone else. With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had, and a return to the life of music she thought she lost forever, Gerta must choose how to build a new future.

Stamper's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Refugees--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Germany--History--1945-1955--Fiction.
Fiction.

Brothers in Valor: A Story of Resistance by Michael O. Tunnell
Call Number: F TUNNEL

ISBN: 9780823415410

Publication Date: 2001-04-01

Holiday House
260 Pages
Ages 10+

Three German teenagers who are members of the Mormon Church join forces to create a youth resistance movement during World War II, putting their lives at risk.

Tunnell's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction.
Mormons--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

My Family for the War by Anne G. Voorhoere; Anne C. Voorhoeve
Call Number: F VOORHO

ISBN: 9780803733602

Publication Date: 2012-02-16

Dial Books
402 Pages
Ages 12+

Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl's life forever. At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn't know when or if she'll see her true family again. Against the backdrop of war-torn London, Frances struggles with questions of identity, family, and love, and these experiences shape her into a dauntless, charming young woman.

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--England--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--England--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Jews--England--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.
Fiction.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Call Number: F ZUSAK

ISBN: 9780375842207

Publication Date: 2007-09-11

Alfred A. Knopf
552 Pages
Ages 13+

When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Penguin Random House Website
Reading Guide
Zusak's Website
Includes covers from many different countries

Sears Subject Headings:

Books and reading--Fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Jews--germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Main

Freiheit!: the White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
Call Number: DD256.3 .G7635 2021

ISBN: 9780874863444

Publication Date: 2021-02-16

Plough Publishing House
111 Pages
Ages 12-14

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novel. With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The university students who formed the White Rose, an undercover resistance movement in Nazi Germany, knew that doing so could cost them their lives. But some things are worth dying for. The White Rose printed and distributed leaflets to expose Nazi atrocities and wake up their fellow citizens. The Gestapo caught and executed them. Sophie Scholl was twenty-one; her brother Hans, twenty-four; Christoph Probst, twenty-three; Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf, twenty-five. But the White Rose was not silenced. Their heroism continues to inspire new generations of resisters. Now, for the first time, this story that has been celebrated in print and film can be experienced as a graphic novel. Italian artist Andrea Grosso Ciponte's haunting imagery will resonate with today's students and activists. The challenges they face may vary, but the need for young people to stand up against evil, whatever the cost, will remain.

Plough Website
Includes book trailer

Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings

White Rose (German resistance group)--Fiction.
Graphic novels.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Underground movements--Fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement--Fiction.

Bitter Eden: A Novel by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Call Number: PR9369.3.A37 B58 2014

ISBN: 9781250043665

Publication Date: 2014-02-25

Picador
vii, 232 Pages
Ages 18+

A modern classic being introduced to the United States for the first time, Tatamkhulu Afrika's autobiographical novel illuminating the profound and incomparable bonds forged between prisoners of war. Bitter Eden is based on Tatamkhulu Afrika's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully wrought novel deals with three men who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in the male-only camps. The complex rituals of camp life and the strange loyalties and deep bonds among the men are heartbreakingly depicted. Bitter Eden is a tender, bitter, deeply felt book of lives inexorably changed, and of a war whose ending does not bring peace.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
Male friendship.
Fiction.

Leisure Reading

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende; Frances Riddle (Translator)
Call Number: LR PQ8098.1.L54 W5613 2023

ISBN: 9780593598122

Publication Date: 2024-05-28

Ballantine Books
260 Pages
Ages X-X

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita's mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers--and never stop dreaming.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

World war, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Austria--Fiction.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Noncitizen detention centers--United States--Fiction.
War and families--Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: F BRADLE

ISBN: 9780525429203

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Dial Books for Young Readers
385 Pages
Ages 8-12

Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighter for the ages. Her triumphant World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life When Ada awakes from surgery on her club foot, the news that greets her will change the course of her life. Doors that her mother had shut tightly are swinging open. But World War II rages on, Ada and her brother, Jamie, are forced to move into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth arrives. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. A German? Could Ruth be a spy? As the fallout from the war intensifies, calamity creeps closer to Ada's doorstep, and life grows more complicated. Who will Ada decide to be? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save?

Penguin Random House Website
Includes Lexile Reading Level

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
Guardian and ward--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Jews--Great Britain--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption.
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe.
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience.
Great Britain--History--George VI,1936-1952--Fiction.
Fiction.

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: F BRADLE

ISBN: 9780803740815

Publication Date: 2015-01-08

Dial Books for Young Readers
385 Pages
Ages 8-12

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan--and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction

Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
Call Number: F GITWIT

ISBN: 9780593112083

Publication Date: 2024-02-27

Dutton Children's Books
320 Pages
Ages 11+

Max Bretzfeld doesn't want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he's been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible- becoming a British spy. The first book in a duology, Max in the House of Spies is a thought-provoking World War II story as only acclaimed storyteller Adam Gidwitz can tell it fast-paced and hilarious, with a dash of magic and a lot of heart.

Sears Subject Headings:

Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Juvenile fiction.
Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
Spirits--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Fiction.
Jews--England, Fiction.
Spies--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Jewish refugees--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Spies--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction
Berlin (Germany)--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy fiction.
Novels.

How I Became a Spy by Deborah Hopkinson
Call Number: F HOPKIN

ISBN: 9780399557095

Publication Date: 2021-01-26

Alfred A. Knopf
264 Pages
Ages 8-14

Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis.

Hopkinson's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction.
Ciphers--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--united States--20th century.
JUVENILE FICTION--Social Issues--Friendship.
JUVENILE FICTION--Mysteries & Detective Stories.
London (England)--History--Bombardment, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction
Fiction

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Call Number: F KESSLE

ISBN: 9781534499652

Publication Date: 2021-05-18

Aladdin
viii, 337 Pages
Ages 12+

Three friends. One memory. Vienna.1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe--to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland--will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Tamar by Mal Peet
Call Number: F PEET

ISBN: 9780763634889

Publication Date: 2007-01-23

Candlewick Press
424 Pages
Ages 14+

When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar's life forever.

Sears Subject Headings:

Grandfathers--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Fiction.
Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.
Guilt--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction,
England--Fiction.
Netherlands--History--Germany occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.

My Family for the War by Anne G. Voorhoere; Anne C. Voorhoeve
Call Number: F VOORHO

ISBN: 9780803733602

Publication Date: 2012-02-16

Dial Books
402 Pages
Ages 12+

Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl's life forever. At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn't know when or if she'll see her true family again. Against the backdrop of war-torn London, Frances struggles with questions of identity, family, and love, and these experiences shape her into a dauntless, charming young woman.

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--England--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--England--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Jews--England--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.
Fiction.

Rose under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: F WEIN

ISBN: 9781423183099

Publication Date: 2013-09-10

Hyperion
360 Pages
Ages 16+

While ferrying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women, including a once glamorous French novelist; a resilient young Polish girl who has been used as a human guinea pig by Nazi doctors; and a female fighter pilot for the Soviet air force. Trapped in this bleak place under horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that be enough to enable Rose to endure the fate that is in store for her?

Sears Subject Headings:

Ravensbruck (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Air pilots--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

Run and Hide by Don Brown
Call Number: 940.5318 B812r 2023

ISBN: 9780358538165

Publication Date: 2023-10-10

Clarion Books, HarperAlley, Imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
190 Pages
Ages 13+

In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War. Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and families, as they escaped certain horror. Some children flee to England by train. Others are hidden from Nazis, sometimes in plain sight. Some are secreted away in attics and farmhouses. Still others make miraculous escapes, cresting over the snow-covered Pyrenees mountains to safety.

Harper Collins Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Jewish Holocaust--(1939-1945).
1939-1945.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Comic books, strips, etc.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust survivors--Juvenile literature.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--comic books, strips, etc.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Juvenile literature.
Cartoons and comics.
Jews--Cartoons and comics.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Cartoons and comics.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION--Comics & Graphic Novels--History.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION--History--Military & Wars.
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.
Educational comics.
Comics (Graphic works).
Literature.

Library Science Fiction

Children of Bach by Eilis Dillon
Call Number: F DILLON

ISBN: 9780684194400

Publication Date: 1992-11-01

Charles Scribner's Sons Maxwell Macmillan International
164 Pages
Ages 10-12

The Second World War is drawing towards its end. The Nazis are occupying Hungary. When Peter, Suzy and little Pali find that their parents have been rounded up with other Jews and sent away, they embark on a perilous plan to escape into Italy. Not knowing whom to trust, they risk danger and betrayal, until their frightening journey as refugees comes to an end in an Italian mountain village, where it is music that gains them acceptance among the villagers and helps them to embrace a new life.

Dillon's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction
Jews--Hungary--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Hungary--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Hungary--History--1918-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Malka by Mirjam Pressler; Brian Murdoch (Translator)
Call Number: F PRESSL

ISBN: 9780399239847

Publication Date: 2003-05-12

Philomel Books
280 Pages
Ages 12+

When the round-ups start in the Polish village, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters across the Hungarian border to safety-a place where Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have ever imagined. Raw and bleeding feet, bad weather, fear and homesickness fill their nights, until little Malka falls very ill, and must be left behind to be brought across when the threat has passed. But the threat doesn't pass. Separated from her family, Malka finds herself in a terrifying world full of strangers, starvation, and constant fear of Nazi round-ups. Completely alone, she struggles to stay hidden in alleyways and old cellars, unaware that miles away, a broken-hearted mother is searching frantically for her lost little girl . . . A shocking and unforgettable story of a child's heroic fight to stay alive during one of the most intense moments in human history.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Call Number: 940.5318 J135i, 1997

ISBN: 9780689810220

Publication Date: 1997-04-01

Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
224 Pages
Ages 14+

The intimate and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps Thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann's life was changed forever when the Nazis invaded her homeland of Hungary. In excruciating and immediate detail, the author describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz and recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenaged camp inmates. Through a series of tiny but miraculous twists of fate, Elli managed to come out of the camp alive, together with her mother and her brother. Although her story is heartbreaking, Elli's enduring hope, perseverance, strength, and love throughout her ordeal make it an inspiring one as well. Readers will be moved by the intensity of Elli's spirit and will rejoice in her ability to overcome the nightmare that was her daily reality.

Simon & Schuster Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Jackson, Livia Bitton--Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Livia Bitton--Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Auschwitz (concentration camp).
Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
Concentration camps--Poland.
Women--Biography.
Hungary--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.

Impossible Escape: a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 940.5318 Sh42i 2023

ISBN: 9781250265722

Publication Date: 2023-08-29

Roaring Brook Press
xi, 243 Pages
Ages 12-18

This is the true story of Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba. In 1944, he was just a teenager when he did the impossible and escaped Auschwitz, becoming one of the first survivors to share with the world what was actually going on in the Nazi concentration camps. But before he escaped, before he became one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, he had to survive the concentration camp.This is also the story of Gerta Sidonová, his highschool friend who fled from Slovakia to Hungary with her family. There, she lived under assumed names and hid her Jewish identity. Every day, she risked being found out as Hungary began to cave under pressure from German Nazis. Rudi and Gerta's parallel storylines bring them together as the clock ticks down for Gerta and her family, and Rudi edges towards escape.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile Literature.
Jews--Persecutions--Juvenile Literature.
World war, 1939-1945--Children Juvenile Literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Jews--Persecutions.
World war, 1939-1945--Children.

Library Science Fiction

Children of Bach by Eilis Dillon
Call Number: F DILLON

ISBN: 9780684194400

Publication Date: 1992-11-01

Charles Scribner's Sons Maxwell Macmillan International
164 Pages
Ages 10-12

The Second World War is drawing towards its end. The Nazis are occupying Hungary. When Peter, Suzy and little Pali find that their parents have been rounded up with other Jews and sent away, they embark on a perilous plan to escape into Italy. Not knowing whom to trust, they risk danger and betrayal, until their frightening journey as refugees comes to an end in an Italian mountain village, where it is music that gains them acceptance among the villagers and helps them to embrace a new life.

Dillon's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction
Jews--Hungary--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Hungary--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Hungary--History--1918-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Call Number: F KESSLE

ISBN: 9781534499652

Publication Date: 2021-05-18

Aladdin
viii, 337 Pages
Ages 12+

Three friends. One memory. Vienna.1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe--to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland--will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Main

Bitter Eden: A Novel by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Call Number: PR9369.3.A37 B58 2014

ISBN: 9781250043665

Publication Date: 2014-02-25

Picador
vii, 232 Pages
Ages 18+

A modern classic being introduced to the United States for the first time, Tatamkhulu Afrika's autobiographical novel illuminating the profound and incomparable bonds forged between prisoners of war. Bitter Eden is based on Tatamkhulu Afrika's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully wrought novel deals with three men who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in the male-only camps. The complex rituals of camp life and the strange loyalties and deep bonds among the men are heartbreakingly depicted. Bitter Eden is a tender, bitter, deeply felt book of lives inexorably changed, and of a war whose ending does not bring peace.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
Male friendship.
Fiction.

The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Call Number: PS3569.M5377 G57 2016

ISBN: 9781439140239

Publication Date: 2016-10-18

Simon and Schuster
308 Pages
Ages 18+

Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis. This act of kindness leads them into the world of Partisans, random executions, the arts of forgery and high explosives, Mussolini's broken promises, the black market and gold, and, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon. The Girl from Venice is a thriller, a mystery, and a retelling of Italian history that will take your breath away. Most of all it is a love story.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Espionage.
FICTION/ General.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Lover stories.
Historical fiction.
suspense fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

Grenade by Alan Gratz
Call Number: F GRATZ

ISBN: 9781338245691

Publication Date: 2018-10-09

Scholastic Press
270 Pages
Ages 11+

Hideki lives on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. He doesn't know what to expect -- or if he'll make it out alive. He just knows that the enemy is everywhere. Hideki and Ray each fight their way across the island, surviving heart-pounding ambushes and dangerous traps. But when the two of them collide in the middle of the battle, the choices they make in that instant will change everything.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island--Juvenile fiction.
Ryukyuans--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese--Juvenile fiction.
Marines--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
War stories.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island--Fiction.
Okinawa-shi (Japan)--History--20th century--Fiction.
War fiction.

Main

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Call Number: PQ8098.1.L54 A67513 2015

ISBN: 9781501116971

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

Atria Books
321 Pages
Ages 18+

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives.

Discussion Guide
Discussion Questions
Simon & Schuster Website
Includes reading group guide

Sears Subject Headings:

Older women--Fiction.
Love in old age--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Romance/ Historical.
FICTION/ Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.

Library Science Fiction

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Call Number: F SEPETY

ISBN: 9780399254123

Publication Date: 2011-03-22

Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge
419 Pages
Ages 12+

A knock comes at the door in the dead of night, and Lina's life changes in an instant. With her young brother and mother, she is hauled away by the Soviet secret police from her home in Lithuania and thrown into a cattle car en route to Siberia. Separated from her father, Lina secretly passes along clues in the form of drawings, hoping they will reach his prison camp. But will her letters, or her courage, be enough to reunite her family? Will they be enough to keep her alive? A moving and haunting novel about loss, fear, and ultimately, survival, Between Shades of Gray is a tour de force of historical and emotional storytelling.

Sears Subject Headings:

Labor camps--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1935-1953--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Biography

A Friend Called Anne: One Girl's Story of War, Peace, and a Unique Friendship with Anne Frank by Carol Ann Lee (Retold by); Jacqueline Van Maarsen (Author)
Call Number: B Frank Lee

ISBN: 9780670059584

Publication Date: 2005-04-07

Viking Penguin
163 Pages
Ages 10-16

The story of Jacqueline van Maarsen ("Jopie"), who was Anne Frank's best friend before Anne went into hiding. She remembers her friendship with Anne, her own experiences of the Holocaust, and accepting the fame of Anne's diary.

Sears Subject Headings:

Frank, Anne--1929-1945--Juvenile literature.
Maarsen, Jacqueline van--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Biographies.

Library Science Fiction

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Call Number: F CHAMBE

ISBN: 9780525468639

Publication Date: 2002-05-27

Dutton Books
312 Pages
Ages 14+

Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldier's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.

Chambers' Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Unmarried mothers--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Assisted suicide--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Call Number: F DOGAR

ISBN: 9780547501956

Publication Date: 2010-10-04

Houghton Mifflin
ix, 341 Pages
Ages 12-15

Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne's diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex's occupants.

Sears Subject Headings:

Frank, Anne,--1929-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Fiction.
Biographies.

Nightfather by Carl Friedman; Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator); Erica Pomerans (Translator)
Call Number: F FRIEDM

ISBN: 9780892551934

Publication Date: 1994-04-01

Persea Books
133 Pages
Ages X-X

A World War II concentration camp survivor's story, recounted by his eight-year-old daughter. At first the father tries to present the experience in terms suitable for children, then finding that he is getting nowhere he abandons euphemisms and becomes brutally frank. The novel's interest is in the girl's reaction, as well as that of two other children to such subjects as gassings, beatings and murder.

Persea Books Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Jews--Netherlands--Fiction.
Netherlands--Fiction.

Tamar by Mal Peet
Call Number: F PEET

ISBN: 9780763634889

Publication Date: 2007-01-23

Candlewick Press
424 Pages
Ages 14+

When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar's life forever.

Sears Subject Headings:

Grandfathers--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Fiction.
Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.
Guilt--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction,
England--Fiction.
Netherlands--History--Germany occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
Call Number: 940.53 R278u

ISBN: 0690851278

Publication Date: 1972-01-21

Harper Collins
ix, 196 Pages
Ages 10-13

A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning author Johanna Reiss's own childhood during the Holocaust. When the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Annie was only eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger. Most people thought the war wouldn't last long, but Annie knew that if she wanted to stay alive, she would have to go into hiding. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered refuge to Annie and her older sister, Sini. For two years they hid in the cramped upstairs room of the Oostervelds's remote farmhouse. There, Annie and Sini would struggle to hold on to hope--separated from their family and confined to one tiny room--as a frightful and seemingly endless war raged on outside their window.

Sears Subject Headings:

World war, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Jews--Netherlands.
Netherlands--History.

Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl; Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Call Number: 940.5318 N124g 2024

ISBN: 9780062489968

Publication Date: 2016-10-18

Greenwillow Books
xi, 130 Pages
Ages 12+

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family--father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert--were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive. Four Perfect Pebbles features forty archival photographs, including several new to this edition, an epilogue, a bibliography, a map, a reading group guide, an index, and a new afterword by the author.

Sears Subject Headings:

Lazan, Marion Blumenthal--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Lazan, Marion Blumenthal--Childhood and youth.
Westerbork (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Germany--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Germany--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Germany--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Westerbork (Netherlands: Concentration camp).
Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp).

Storming the Tulips by Nancy L. Baumann; Hannie J. Voyles (Edited and Translated by); Ronald Sanders (Compiled by)
Call Number: 940.5318 Sa56s 2011

ISBN: 9780983080008

Publication Date: 2011-04-04

Stonebrook Pub.
164 Pages
Ages 10-15

This is companion to Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is loved by students and teachers as they learn to understand the world beyond the Annex. Not just another Holocaust story, Storming the Tulips is an intimate encounter with history, as told by twenty former students of the 1st Montessori School in Amsterdam. They were children-contemporaries of Anne Frank-and this book is a companion her Diary of a Young Girl. While Anne's story describes her sequestered life in the Annex, Storming the Tulips reveals what children on the outside experienced-in the streets, in hiding, and in the concentration camps. It is a staple in Holocaust education curricula in all parts of the world.

Stonebrook Pub. Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Children--Netherlands, Amsterdam--Biography.
Students--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
Children and war--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.
Biographies.

Main

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Call Number: DS135.N6 F73313

ISBN: 9781556750007

Publication Date: 1988-01-01

Doubleday
308 Pages
Ages 12+

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Sears Subject Headings

Frank, Anne--1929-1945--Diaries.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Personal narratives.
Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Ethnic relations.

Library Science Biography

The Daughter of Auschwitz: the Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Story by Tova Friedman
Call Number: B Friedman Friedman

ISBN: 9780063381544

Publication Date: 2025-04-08

Quill Tree Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
193 Pages
Ages 12+

In this powerful middle grade adaptation of the bestselling adult memoir of the same name, New York Times bestselling author Tova Friedman recounts her experiences as one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. At the tender age of five years old, Tola Grossman was sent to a Nazi labor camp. As World War II was breaking out around them, the only thing Tola and her parents were left with was the instinct to survive at all costs. Tola's life became a series of miraculous close calls, from being saved from a gas chamber to successfully hiding from the Nazis as they were rounding people up. In this evocative account of one young girl's survival, Tova Friedman chronicles the atrocities she witnessed while at Auschwitz and, ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds.

Sears Subject Headings:

Friedman, Tova,--1938---Juvenile literature.
Friedman, Tova,--1938-.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Birkenau (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors--Poland--Gdynia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Gdynia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camps--Poland--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camps--Germany--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jewish--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors.
Jews--Poland--Gdynia--Biography.
Nazi concentration camps--Poland.
Nazi concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
World War, 1939-1945.
Holocaust survivors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Biography--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile literature.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

Library Science Fiction

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Call Number: F BOYNE

ISBN: 9780385751070

Publication Date: 2006-09-12

David Fickling Books
215 Pages
Ages 10-14

Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Sears Subject Headings:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile fiction.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Friendship-Fiction.
Nazis--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews-Fiction.

The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
Call Number: F CAMERO

ISBN: 9781338355932

Publication Date: 2020-03-03

Scholastic Press
377 Pages
Ages 12+

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron. One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make... It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemysl, Poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio -- a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemysl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Izio's brother Max has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. When the knock finally comes, it is two Nazi officers, requisitioning Stefania's house for the German army. With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jews above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania has one more excruciating choice to make.

Cameron's Website
Scholastic Press Website
Includes Lexile and Reading Levels under Show More in the PRODUCT DETAILS
The Stefi Foundation

Sears Subject Headings:

Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska--Juvenile fiction.
Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska--Fiction.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Przemyśl--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Przemyśl--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Przemyśl (Poland)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Poland--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Przemyśl (Poland)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Poland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Call Number: F DOGAR

ISBN: 9780547501956

Publication Date: 2010-10-04

Houghton Mifflin
ix, 341 Pages
Ages 12-15

Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne's diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex's occupants.

Sears Subject Headings:

Frank, Anne,--1929-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Fiction.
Biographies.

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
Call Number: F FAKUDA

ISBN: 9781250192387

Publication Date: 2020-01-07

Tor Teen
382 Pages
Ages 13-18

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."--Andrew Fukuda

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature. From the desolation of an internment camp on the plains of Manzanar to the horrors of Auschwitz and the devastation of European battlefields, the only thing they can hold onto are the memories of their letters. But nothing can dispel the light between them.

Macmillan Publishers Website

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Army--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Fiction.
Pen pals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.
Fiction.

Once by Morris Gleitzman
Call Number: F GLEITZ

ISBN: 9780805090260

Publication Date: 2010-03-30

Henry Holt and Company
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
163 Pages
Ages 10+

Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents are in danger, Felix sets off to warn them--straight into the heart of Nazi-occupied Poland. To Felix, everything is a story: Why did he get a whole carrot in his soup? It must be a sign that his parents are coming to get him. Why are the Nazis burning books? They must be foreign librarians sent to clean out the orphanage's outdated library. But as Felix's journey gets increasingly dangerous, he begins to see horrors that not even stories can explain. Despite his grim surroundings, Felix never loses hope. Morris Gleitzman takes a painful subject and expertly turns it into a story filled with love, friendship, and even humor.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Separation--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Then by Morris Gleitzman
Call Number: F GLEITZ

ISBN: 9780805090277

Publication Date: 2011-05-10

Henry Holt
198 Pages
Ages 12-15

Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road. With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last? Morris Gleitzman's winning characters will tug at readers' hearts as they struggle to survive in the harsh political climate of Poland in 1942. Their lives are difficult, but they always remember what matters: family, love, and hope.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Separations--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz; Ruth Gruener; Jack Gruener
Call Number: F GRATZ

ISBN: 9780545459013

Publication Date: 2013-03-01

Scholastic Press
309 Pages
Ages 12-14

Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.

Sears Subject Headings:

Gruener, Jack--Juvenile fiction.
Gruener, jack--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Krakow (Poland)--History--Juvenile fiction..
Krakow (Poland)--History--Fiction.
Poland--History--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.

They Went Left by Monica Hesse
Call Number: F HESSE

ISBN: 9780316490573

Publication Date: 2020-04-07

Little, Brown, Company
364 Pages
Ages 14+

Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"-- Provided by publisher.; Germany, 1945. The Gross-Rosen concentration camp have been liberated, but nothing feels over to Zofia Lederman. Three years ago she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else-- parents, grandmother, Aunt Maja-- went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise to find him. That vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? -- adapted from jacket

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Europe--History--1945---Fiction.
Poland--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
Call Number: F ISAACS

ISBN: 9780590603638

Publication Date: 2000-04-01

Scholastic Press
188 Pages
Ages 12+

Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles amid ever worsening dangers to save her life and that of her sick sister, readers witness how two teenagers strive to create home and family amidst inhumanity and chaos. Written in exquisite prose, this story of heartbreak and hope that is rich in detail and symbolism will deeply move readers of all ages.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
World war, 1939-1945--Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Jews--Europe--Fiction.

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Call Number: F KESSLE

ISBN: 9781534499652

Publication Date: 2021-05-18

Aladdin
viii, 337 Pages
Ages 12+

Three friends. One memory. Vienna.1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe--to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland--will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

It Rained Warm Bread by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet; Hope Anita Smith; Lea Lyon (Illustrator)
Call Number: F MOSKOW

ISBN: 9781250165725

Publication Date: 2019-08-13

Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company
142 Pages
Ages 9-14

A powerful middle grade novel-in-verse about one boy's experience surviving the Holocaust. Moishe Moskowitz was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family learned the language of fear. The wolves loomed at every corner, yet Moishe still held on to the blessings of his mother's blueberry pierogis, of celebrating the Sabbath as a family, of a loyal friend. But each day the darkness weighed more heavily on Moishe as his family was broken, uprooted, and scattered across labor and concentration camps. Just as his last hopes began to dim, a simple act of kindness redeemed his faith that goodness could survive the trials of war: That was the day it rained warm bread. Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet relates her father's triumphant Holocaust story through the words of award-winning poet Hope Anita Smith. Deftly articulated and beautifully illustrated by Lea Lyon, this is an essential addition to the ever-important collection of Holocaust testimonies.

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation--1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction

Uprising by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Call Number: F NIELSE

ISBN: 9781338795080

Publication Date: 2024-03-05

Scholastic Press
356 Pages
Ages 8-13

Jennifer A. Nielsen inspires readers with a brand-new thriller based on the remarkable true story of a young Polish girl who bravely fought, participating in the Warsaw city uprising, and took a stand in the name of freedom. Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her father makes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight against the Nazis. Lidia wants to follow him into war, but she's far too young, and she's needed by her mother and brother. After her family returns to Warsaw, where life has changed irrevocably, Lidia continues to play the piano, finding comfort in Chopin, Bach, and Beethoven. But she also wants to aid the Jewish people held captive in the Warsaw Ghetto. With the help of a friend, Lidia begins to smuggle wheat and food into the ghetto. Still, she feels like she could be doing so much more. She wants to fight. After her brother joins the resistance, Lidia wants only to follow in his footsteps. Soon, she begins to work as a courier, smuggling weapons and messages for the resistance throughout the city. When the Warsaw city uprising begins--one year after the more well-known Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Polish Jews--with gunfire and bombs echoing throughout the streets, Lidia joins the Polish nationalists' fight, too, and she and her peers fight with everything they've got. Life will continue to surprise Lidia, as she and the resistance fighters do their best to defeat the German soldiers. No matter the consequences, they're willing to defend their freedom and their homes from the Nazi invaders--even with their lives. Drawing on the extraordinary real-life story of Polish teenager Lidia Zakrzewski, bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen presents an inspiring and dramatic account of the Polish resistance fighters who struggled to force out their Nazi occupiers and reclaim their nation's freedom from tyranny.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Nazis--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust.
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars.
Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.

Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin (Translator)
Call Number: F ORLEV

ISBN: 9780618164653

Publication Date: 2003-10-27

Houghton Mifflin
186 Pages
Ages 10-14

Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy's survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.

Sears Subject Headings:

Fridman, Yoram--Juvenile fiction.
Fridman, Yorem--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Poland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Fiction.

The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin (Translator)
Call Number: F ORLEV

ISBN: 9780395538081

Publication Date: 1991-04-29

Houghton Mifflin
186 Pages
Ages 14+

Marek has never thought about the Jewish people who live in the Warsaw Ghetto near his home—until he helps his stepfather smuggle food and guns through the sewer to sell there. Even then, he does not truly understand what it means to be isolated, persecuted, and faced with almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Then Marek meets a Jewish man on the run—and, in helping him, is thrust into the middle of an uprising.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Malka by Mirjam Pressler; Brian Murdoch (Translator)
Call Number: F PRESSL

ISBN: 9780399239847

Publication Date: 2003-05-12

Philomel Books
280 Pages
Ages 12+

When the round-ups start in the Polish village, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters across the Hungarian border to safety-a place where Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have ever imagined. Raw and bleeding feet, bad weather, fear and homesickness fill their nights, until little Malka falls very ill, and must be left behind to be brought across when the threat has passed. But the threat doesn't pass. Separated from her family, Malka finds herself in a terrifying world full of strangers, starvation, and constant fear of Nazi round-ups. Completely alone, she struggles to stay hidden in alleyways and old cellars, unaware that miles away, a broken-hearted mother is searching frantically for her lost little girl . . . A shocking and unforgettable story of a child's heroic fight to stay alive during one of the most intense moments in human history.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction
Fiction.

Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Call Number: F ROY

ISBN: 9780761452775

Publication Date: 2012-01-05

Marshall Cavendish
227 Pages
Ages 10+

"In 1945 the war ended. The Germans surrendered, and the ghetto was liberated. Out of over a quarter of a million people, about 800 walked out of the ghetto. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. I was one of the twelve." For more than fifty years after the war, Syvia, like many Holocaust survivors, did not talk about her experiences in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. She buried her past in order to move forward. But finally she decided it was time to share her story, and so she told it to her niece, who has re-told it here using free verse inspired by her aunt. This is the true story of Syvia Perlmutter--a story of courage, heartbreak, and finally survival despite the terrible circumstances in which she grew up. A timeline, historical notes, and an author's note are included.

Roy's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Lodz--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Call Number: F SPINEL

ISBN: 9780375913747

Publication Date: 2003-09-09

Scholastic
208 Pages
Ages 14+

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.

Sears Subject Headings:

Boys--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War,1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Warsaw (Poland)--Fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Call Number: 940.5318 J135i, 1997

ISBN: 9780689810220

Publication Date: 1997-04-01

Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
224 Pages
Ages 14+

The intimate and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps Thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann's life was changed forever when the Nazis invaded her homeland of Hungary. In excruciating and immediate detail, the author describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz and recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenaged camp inmates. Through a series of tiny but miraculous twists of fate, Elli managed to come out of the camp alive, together with her mother and her brother. Although her story is heartbreaking, Elli's enduring hope, perseverance, strength, and love throughout her ordeal make it an inspiring one as well. Readers will be moved by the intensity of Elli's spirit and will rejoice in her ability to overcome the nightmare that was her daily reality.

Simon & Schuster Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Jackson, Livia Bitton--Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Livia Bitton--Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Auschwitz (concentration camp).
Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
Concentration camps--Poland.
Women--Biography.
Hungary--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson; Marilyn J. Harran; Elisabeth B. Leyson
Call Number: 940.5318 L685b 2013

ISBN: 9781442497818

Publication Date: 2013-08-27

Atheneum Books for Young Readers
225 Pages
Ages 10-13

This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory--a list that became world renowned: Schindler's list. Told with an abundance of dignity and a remarkable lack of rancor and venom, The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read.

Sears Subject Headings:

Schindler, Oskar,--1908-1974.
Leyson, Leon,--1929-2013.
Plaszow (Concentration camp).
World war, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
Jews--Narewka (Poland)--Biography.
Jewish Children in the Holocaust--Krakow (Poland)--Biography.
Holocaust, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Concentration camp inmates--Plaszow (Poland)--Biography.

No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War by Anita Lobel
Call Number: 940.5318 L783n, 1998

ISBN: 9780688159351

Publication Date: 1998-09-17

Greenwillow Books
xiii, 193 Pages
Ages 10+

The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.

Sears Subject Headings:

Lobel, Anita--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Lobel, Anita--Childhood and youth.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Krakow--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Holocaust survivors.
Krakow (Poland)--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.

Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: 940.5318 Sh92c 2020

ISBN: 9780374313715

Publication Date: 2020-10-13

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
329 Pages
Ages 10-14

In September 1939, as German bombs started falling on Warsaw, four-year-old Uri Shulevitz sat still while his mother tied new boots on his feet and told him, "We'll need to walk a lot." So begins Uri's arduous eight-year journey with his family, fleeing Poland and the Nazi onslaught for a precarious existence in the Soviet Union. From the freezing wilderness confines of a labor camp all the way north near the White Sea to hunger-filled years of displacement all the way south in the city of Turkestan, Uri recounts the lucky breaks and setbacks that happened to him and his parents along the way. Powerfully illustrated by the author and with a few surviving personal photographs and mementos, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust also depicts young Uri's awakening as an artist, whose love of making pictures helped sustain him. Altogether, this is a unique, enthralling memoir of a displaced childhood from the beloved Caldecott medalist, the capstone to a remarkable career.

Sears Subject Headings:

Shulevitz, Uri--1935-2025--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Poland--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Night by Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Call Number: 940.5318 W637n 2006

ISBN: 9780374500016

Publication Date: 2006-01-16

Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
xxi, 120 Pages
Ages 14+

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Macmillan Publishers Website
Includes guides for teachers and reading groups

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374500016/night/

Main

Maus: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: D810.J4 S643 2011

ISBN: 0394747232

Publication Date: 2011

Pantheon Books
295 Pages
Ages X-X

In this graphic novel, Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Spiegelman, Vladek--Comic books, strips, etc.
Spiegelman, Art--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Children of Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Call Number: PQ8098.1.L54 A67513 2015

ISBN: 9781501116971

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

Atria Books
321 Pages
Ages 18+

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives.

Sears Subject Headings:

Older women--Fiction.
Love in old age--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Romance/ Historical.
FICTION/ Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.

Library Science Biography

The Seamstress by Sara Tuval Bernstein
Call Number: B Bernstein Ber

ISBN: 0425166309

Publication Date: 1999-05-01

Putnam
353 Pages
Ages X-X

"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him...After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." --Kirkus Reviews

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel--1918-.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
Jews--Romania--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Personal narratives.

Library Science Non-Fiction

Night by Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Call Number: 940.5318 W637n 2006

ISBN: 9780374500016

Publication Date: 2006-01-16

Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ages 14+
xxi, 120 Pages

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

Sears Subject Headings:

Wiesel, Elie--1928-2016--Childhood and youth.
Jews--Romania--Sighetu Marmatiei--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Sighetu Marmatiei--Personal narratives.
Sighetu Marmatiei--Biography.

Library Science Fiction

Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
Call Number: F NAGAI

ISBN: 9781250159212

Publication Date: 2019-10-15

Henry Holt and Company
293 Pages
Ages 10-14
A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II. Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they've known begins to unravel when her father is recruited to the Japanese army, and Natsu and her little sister, Cricket, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to keep her sister alive, Natsu sells Cricket to a Russian family following the 1945 Soviet occupation. The journey to redemption for Natsu's broken family is rife with struggles, but Natsu is tenacious and will stop at nothing to get her little sister back. Literary and historically insightful, this is one of the great untold stories of WWII.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--China--Manchuria--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Refugees, Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945--Juvenile fictions.
Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Call Number: F SEPETY

ISBN: 9780399254123

Publication Date: 2011-03-22

Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge
419 Pages
Ages 12+

A knock comes at the door in the dead of night, and Lina's life changes in an instant. With her young brother and mother, she is hauled away by the Soviet secret police from her home in Lithuania and thrown into a cattle car en route to Siberia. Separated from her father, Lina secretly passes along clues in the form of drawings, hoping they will reach his prison camp. But will her letters, or her courage, be enough to reunite her family? Will they be enough to keep her alive? A moving and haunting novel about loss, fear, and ultimately, survival, Between Shades of Gray is a tour de force of historical and emotional storytelling.

Sears Subject Headings:

Labor camps--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1935-1953--Fiction.
Fiction.

Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson
Call Number: F WULFFS

ISBN: 9780670888634

Publication Date: 2001-03-19

Viking
viii, 226 Pages
Ages 12+

As World War II rages, sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt finds himself on a train traveling to Russia. He's one of the hundreds of thousands of German boys being sent to the Eastern Front by Hitler--since no men are left to fight. Trained as an interpreter and not a soldier, Erik manages to survive the combat, but only by slipping into a dead enemy's uniform, and posing as a wounded Russian. Now the young German must keep up his charadeÉ. Soldier X is based on a conversation author Don Wulffson had with a German war survivor. The result is a thoughtful and compelling novel that takes readers inside the mind of a boy who must fight and even die for a war he doesn't believe in.

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: 940.5318 Sh92c 2020

ISBN: 9780374313715

Publication Date: 2020-10-13

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
329 Pages
Ages 10-14

In September 1939, as German bombs started falling on Warsaw, four-year-old Uri Shulevitz sat still while his mother tied new boots on his feet and told him, "We'll need to walk a lot." So begins Uri's arduous eight-year journey with his family, fleeing Poland and the Nazi onslaught for a precarious existence in the Soviet Union. From the freezing wilderness confines of a labor camp all the way north near the White Sea to hunger-filled years of displacement all the way south in the city of Turkestan, Uri recounts the lucky breaks and setbacks that happened to him and his parents along the way. Powerfully illustrated by the author and with a few surviving personal photographs and mementos, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust also depicts young Uri's awakening as an artist, whose love of making pictures helped sustain him. Altogether, this is a unique, enthralling memoir of a displaced childhood from the beloved Caldecott medalist, the capstone to a remarkable career.

Sears Subject Headings:

Shulevitz, Uri--1935-2025--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Poland--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Library Science Biography

Harboring Hope: the True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark's Jews Escape the Nazis by Susan Hood
Call Number: B Sinding Hood

ISBN: 9780063214484

Publication Date: 2023-03-21

Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
xiii, 352 Pages
Ages 10+

The inspirational true story of how twenty-two-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood. It wouldn't be easy, but they had to try. It was their only chance to survive. In 1943, Henny Sinding, only twenty-two years old and the crew of Gerda lll, a lighthouse supply boat, risked everything to smuggle their Jewish compatriots across the Øresund strait to safety in Sweden during World War ll. In Henny's words, "It was the right thing to do so we did it. Simple as that." But what happened when their operation's cover was blown and it was Henny's turn to escape This incredible true story in-verse about courage, community, humanity, and hope is perfect for fans of Lifeboat 12, Alias Anna, and Alan Gratz. Includes extensive back matter with primary sources, additional information, further reading, and photographs.

Sears Subject Headings:

Sinding, Henny--1921---Juvenile literature.
Sinding, Henny--1921-.
German Occupation of Denmark--(Denmark: 1940-1945).
Jewish Holocaust.
World War--(1939-1945)
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Denmark--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1935--Participation, Female--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Denmark--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Denmark.
Rescue works, Denmark.
World War, 1939-1945--participation, Female.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Denmark.
Women--Biography.
Military participation--Female.
Wars--Underground movements.
Holocaust, 1939-1945--Denmark.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Denmark.
Rescue work--Denmark.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Denmark.
Women--Biography.
Denmark--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile literature.
Denmark--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Denmark.
Denmark--History.
History.
Juvenile works.
Stories in rhyme.
Free verse.
Literature.
Biographies.

Library Science Fiction

The Lily Pond by Annika Thor; Linda Schenck (Translator)
Call Number: F THOR

ISBN: 9780385740395

Publication Date: 2011-10-11

Delacorte Press
217 Pages
Ages 13+

A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again--under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself--she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi ideology, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.

Penguin Random House Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Jews--Sweden--Fiction.
Goteborg (Sweden)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Sweden--History--Gustav V, 1907-1950--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War by Anita Lobel
Call Number: 940.5318 L783n, 1998

ISBN: 9780688159351

Publication Date: 1998-09-17

Greenwillow Books
xiii, 193 Pages
Ages 10+

The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.

Sears Subject Headings:

Lobel, Anita--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Lobel, Anita--Childhood and youth.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Krakow--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Poland--Krakow--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Holocaust survivors.
Krakow (Poland)--Ethnic relations--Juvenile literature.

Leisure Reading

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende; Frances Riddle (Translator)
Call Number: LR PQ8098.1.L54 W5613 2023

ISBN: 9780593598122

Publication Date: 2024-05-28

Ballantine Books
260 Pages
Ages X-X

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita's mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers--and never stop dreaming.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

World war, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Austria--Fiction.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Noncitizen detention centers--United States--Fiction.
War and families--Fiction.

The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
Call Number: LR PS3611.E452 G65 2023

ISBN: 9780593354902

Publication Date: 2024-04-02

Ballantine Books
511 Pages
Ages X-X

American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie's mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette's son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission: Josie is working for U.S. Army Intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love. Martha Hall Kelly has garnered acclaim for her stunning combination of empathy and research into the stories of women throughout history and for exploring the terrors of Ravensbrück. With The Golden Doves, she has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II--and the unsung female spies who risked it all to bring them to justice.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Ravensbruck (Concentration Camp)--Fiction.
Women spies--France--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--United States--Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Ravensbruck--20th century--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Fiction.
Nazis--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
War criminals--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Call Number: LR PS3612.A279 L 53 2023

ISBN: 0063297124

Publication Date: 2023-02-21

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
390 Pages
Ages 13+

A captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm. Then Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her Berlin, and soon she's drawn into a group of resisters who make her question everything she knows about her hosts--and herself. Paris 1936. She may have escaped Berlin for Paris, but Hannah Brecht discovers the City of Light is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she left behind. Heartbroken and tormented by the role she played in the betrayal that destroyed her family, Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books. Through the quiet power of books, she believes she can help counter the tide of fascism she sees rising across Europe and atone for her mistakes. But when a dear friend decides actions will speak louder than words, Hannah must decide what stories she is willing to live--or die--for. New York 1944. Since her husband Edward was killed fighting the Nazis, Vivian Childs has been waging her own war: preventing a powerful senator's attempts to censor the Armed Service Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas. Viv knows just how much they mean to the men through the letters she receives--including the last one she got from Edward. She also knows the only way to win this battle is to counter the senator's propaganda with a story of her own--at the heart of which lies the reclusive and mysterious woman tending the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books in Brooklyn. As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever. Inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime--the WWII organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, and authors to use books as "weapons in the war of ideas."

Sears Subject Headings:

Librarians--Fiction
Women authors--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
FICTION/ women.
FICTION/ War & Military.
FICTION/ Romance--LGBTQ+.
FICTION/ Friendship.
FICTION/ Historical--20th Century--World War II.
Books and reading
Censorship
Librarians
Widows
Women
Women authors
Librarians--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Paris (France)--History--Fiction.
United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
France--Paris.
Germany.
United States.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels.
History.

Library Science Fiction

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Call Number: F BRUCHA

ISBN: 9780142405963

Publication Date: 2006-07-06

Dial Books
231 pages
Ages 12-15

This deeply affecting novel honors all the young men who dared to serve in World War II, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. "Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."-Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring.

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Marine Corps--Indian troops--Fiction.
Navajo language--Fiction.
Cryptography--Fiction.
Navajo code talkers--Fiction.
Navajo Indians--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman
Call Number: F CHAPMA

ISBN: 9780374177447

Publication Date: 2010-03-16

Farrar Straus Giroux
205 Pages
Ages 10+

In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience. Includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.

Sears Subject Headings:

Jewish refugees--Fiction.
Jews--Germany--Fiction.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Fiction.
Chicago (ILL.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Fiction.

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Call Number: F CHEE

ISBN: 9780358131434

Publication Date: 2020-09-01

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
384 Pages
Ages 12+

We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

Sears Subject Headings:

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Racism.
Concentration camps.
Japanese American families.
Japanese Americans.
Prejudices.
Concentration camps--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese American families--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps--United States--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
California--History--20th century--Fiction.
California--History--Juvenile fiction.
California--History--Fiction.
Young adult works.
Social problem fiction.

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
Call Number: F FAKUDA

ISBN: 9781250192387

Publication Date: 2020-01-07

Tor Teen
382 Pages
Ages 13-18

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."--Andrew Fukuda

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature. From the desolation of an internment camp on the plains of Manzanar to the horrors of Auschwitz and the devastation of European battlefields, the only thing they can hold onto are the memories of their letters. But nothing can dispel the light between them.

Macmillan Publishers Website

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Army--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Fiction.
Pen pals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.
Fiction.

How I Became a Spy by Deborah Hopkinson
Call Number: F HOPKIN

ISBN: 9780399557095

Publication Date: 2021-01-26

Alfred A. Knopf
264 Pages
Ages 8-14

Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis.

Hopkinson's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Spies--Fiction.
Ciphers--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--united States--20th century.
JUVENILE FICTION--Social Issues--Friendship.
JUVENILE FICTION--Mysteries & Detective Stories.
London (England)--History--Bombardment, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction
Fiction

The Last Mission by Harry Mazer
Call Number: F MAZER

ISBN: 9780440057741

Publication Date: 1979-10-01

Delacorte Press
182 Pages
Ages 15+

In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.

Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer
Call Number: F MAZER

ISBN: 9780152014681

Publication Date: 1999-09-20

Harcourt Brace
185 Pages
Ages 10-12

Karin Levi's world of family, school, and friends is torn apart when the German army occupies Paris in June of 1940. Karin and her brother, Marc, like Jews all over Europe, find themselves on the run, seeking safety wherever they can find it. When Marc obtains two coveted places aboard a ship bound for the United States, Karin knows that crossing the ocean means she may never see her beloved parents again. Yet she and Marc have little choice if they are to survive. Karin's unforgettable story--revealing the little-known world of a handful of European refugees in World War II America--tells of survival, of growing up, and of love's ability to endure even the most extraordinary circumstances.

Sears Subject Headings:

Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter--Juvenile fiction.
Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Fiction.

Library Science Non-Fiction

Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl; Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Call Number: 940.5318 N124g 2024

ISBN: 9780062489968

Publication Date: 2016-10-18

Greenwillow Books
xi, 130 Pages
Ages 12+

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family--father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert--were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive. Four Perfect Pebbles features forty archival photographs, including several new to this edition, an epilogue, a bibliography, a map, a reading group guide, an index, and a new afterword by the author.

Sears Subject Headings:

Lazan, Marion Blumenthal--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Lazan, Marion Blumenthal--Childhood and youth.
Westerbork (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Germany--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
Jews--Germany--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Germany--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Westerbork (Netherlands: Concentration camp).
Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp).

Main

Maus: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: D810.J4 S643 2011

ISBN: 0394747232

Publication Date: 2011

Pantheon Books
295 Pages
Ages X-X

In this graphic novel, Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Spiegelman, Vladek--Comic books, strips, etc.
Spiegelman, Art--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Children of Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Call Number: PQ8098.1.L54 A67513 2015

ISBN: 9781501116971

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

Atria Books
321 Pages
Ages 18+

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives.

Sears Subject Headings:

Older women--Fiction.
Love in old age--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Romance/ Historical.
FICTION/ Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: PS3569.M5377 G57 2016

ISBN: 9781476716732

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc.
438 Pages
Ages 11+

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men.

World War (1939-1945)
1939-1945
Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Women divers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Young Women.
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
Fiction.