Ahlberg, Janet. Peek-A-Boo!
Brief clues invite the reader to look through holes in the pages for a
baby's view of his WWII era home.
Hall, Donald. The Farm Summer 1942.
A boy stays on his grandparents' farm while his mother works in the war
effort and his father serves on a destroyer in the Pacific.
Houston, Gloria. But No Candy.
Lee watches the candy disappear from the shelves of the store and realizes
that her world has changed.
Lee, Milly. Nim and the War Effort.
Determined to win the contest for the war effort, Nim leaves her
grandfather both bewildered and proud.
Marx, Trish. Hanna's Cold Winter.
The people of Budapest save the hippopotamuses in the zoo from starving
during the war.
Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.
A Japanese-American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are
interned during the war.
Say, Allen. The Bicycle Man.
Two American soldiers borrow a bicycle and do tricks for a school's sports
day in occupied Japan.
Stevenson, James. Don't You Know There's a War On?
The author recalls efforts on the homefront, including planting a victory
garden and looking for spies.
Bergman, Tamar. Along the Tracks.
A young Jewish boy is driven from his home by the German invasion,
becoming a refugee.
Bishop, Claire H. Twenty and Ten.
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying
France during World War II>
Degens, T. Transport 7-41-R.
A girl describes her journey as a refugee from the Russian sector of
defeated Germany to Cologne.
DeJohn, Meindert. House of Sixty Fathers.
During the early days of the Japanese invasion, a Chinese boy searches for
his parents.
Garrigue, Sheila. The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito.
An old Japanese-Canadian gardener resists being imprisoned in an
internment camp after Pearl Harbor.
Haugaard, Erik C. The Little Fishes.
An orphaned beggar in occupied Italy strugges to survive.
Heneghan, James. Wish Me Luck.
Based on the true story of the sinking of a passenger liner by a German
U-boat during World War II.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter her
Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Orlev, Uri. Lydia, Queen of Palestine.
A Romanian Jewish girl struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid
the chaos of the war.
Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-Red Sun.
Tomikazu's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a bully, until the
bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Tsuchiya, Yukio. Faithful Elephants.
Three elephants in a Tokyo zoo must be put to death despite the pain of
the elephants and their keepers.
Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic.
Time travel places Hannah in the middle of a small Jewish village in
Nazi-occupied Poland.
Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers.
The American military and Navajo Indians create an indecipherable code
based on their native language.
Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Stricken with leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races to fold a thousand
paper cranes in hopes of health.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.
The classic true story of a Jewish girl hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Greenfeld, Howard. The Hidden Children.
The experiences of Jewish children who were forced to go into hiding
during the Holocaust to survive.
Leitner, Isabella. The Big Lie.
The author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp
at Auschwitz.
Mochizuki, Ken. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
A Japanese diplomat in 1940 Lithuania uses his powers to assist Jews to
escape the Holocaust.
Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room.
For over two years Sinni and Anni hide from the Germans in the
Oostervelds' upstairs room.
Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden
Childhood During World War II.
The author and her mother are hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in
Lwow, Poland.
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