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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
3) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
4) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her journey through Central Africa reveals the ravages of colonialism and exposes darker truths about her own allies than Sarah could've ever imagined."--
Germany, 1940. Still hiding in plain sight as "Ursula Haller," Sarah Goldstein gathers information...
6) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust--set this time in the forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
11) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
12) The killing code
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC to work as an codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other girl codebreakers to find the man killing Government girls.
Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls' college now serving as the site of a secret...
13) Projekt 1065
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, Sarah, a Jewish teenager, agrees to help the resistance by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to the blueprints of a bomb that could destroy Western Europe.
15) White Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose. A non-violent resistance group, they write and distribute anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime and calling for action from their fellow German...
16) Four-four-two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
17) Bluebird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird,...
18) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
19) Artifice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
20) The blood years
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
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