Showing 1–12 of 12 books
- Award year: 2014
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Theme: Conflicted: Life During Wartime
- List: Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
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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.
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Boxers
This two volume graphic novel tells parallel stories of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
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The Boy Who Dared
A German boy risks his life to expose the truth behind the Nazi regime.
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Chains: Seeds Of America
Isabel fights for her freedom as the Revolutionary War breaks out.
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Code Talker: A Novel About The Navajo Marines Of World War Two
Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay joins an elite group of code breakers.
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Flygirl
Southern-born Ida Mae "passes" for white to fly planes during World War Two.
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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.
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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.
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Once
Felix, a naive Jewish boy in a Catholic orphanage, runs away to find his parents in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto
Poetry celebrates and mourns the creative community of Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt.
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Saints
This two volume graphic novel tells parallel stories of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
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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.