Showing 1–22 of 22 books
-
Between Shades of Gray
In 1941, Lina and her family are taken from their home in Lithuania and sent to Siberia where, despite horrific conditions, Lina maintains hope that she will survive.
-
The Bite Of The Mango
Kidnapped and tortured by rebels, Kamara fights for survival in Sierra Leone.
- Nonfiction
- Conflicted: Life During Wartime
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2014
- ISBN: 9781554511587
-
Boxers
This two volume graphic novel tells parallel stories of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
-
The Boy Who Dared
A German boy risks his life to expose the truth behind the Nazi regime.
-
Chains: Seeds Of America
Isabel fights for her freedom as the Revolutionary War breaks out.
-
Code Talker: A Novel About The Navajo Marines Of World War Two
Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay joins an elite group of code breakers.
-
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
The disappointment and heartache of these heroes is skillfully communicated with J.D. Jackson's authentic and culturally-sensitive narration.
-
Flygirl
Southern-born Ida Mae "passes" for white to fly planes during World War Two.
-
A Game For Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
As the bombs drop on Beirut, Zeina's family must depend on her neighbors for survival.
-
I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.
-
Mare's War
Two sisters learn about their grandmother's service as an African-American in the Women's Army Corp during World War Two.
-
Mudbound
At the close of WW II, two soldiers return to their home in the South to find racial tensions as explosive as the battlefields of Europe. This beautifully written story casts a spell as inescapable as the mud fields of the Mississippi Delta.
-
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
Treating history as mystery, Steve Sheinkin explores the means, motives and opportunities of America's most infamous spy and as he reveals Arnold's path towards treason. This cradle to grave biography emphasizes the political, social and military issues within the Colonial army and how Arnold ambitiously maneuvered his own career through grit and determination.
-
Once
Felix, a naive Jewish boy in a Catholic orphanage, runs away to find his parents in Nazi-occupied Poland.
-
The Photographer
Photojournalist Didier Lefèvre documented the efforts of a team of doctors in Afghanistan in 1986.
-
Refresh, Refresh
Three young men struggle to cope with the absence of their fathers: Marine Corps reservists who have been sent to war in Iraq.
-
Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto
Poetry celebrates and mourns the creative community of Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt.
-
Saints
This two volume graphic novel tells parallel stories of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
-
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
Ben Bright makes the decision to enlist in the Army. His deployment to the Middle East stresses his relationships with his friends and family, but nothing can prepare them for the way he returns home.
-
The Things A Brother Knows
Boaz is back and hailed as the hometown hero, but he is not at all the same. Can his younger brother Levi help him truly make his way home?
-
Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival
Louis Zamperini's plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, and he manages to survive being a castaway and living in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
- Nonfiction
- Conflicted: Life During Wartime
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2014
- ISBN: 9780007378036
-
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
This moving graphic novel discusses the kidnapping and training of child soldiers in Uganda. These children not only face the harsh reality of war, but also the rehabilitation to normal life after seeing such horrors.