World War II & The Holocaust

  • Alan and Naomi, Levoy (6+) (Holocaust, U.S)
  • Alex, Who Won His War, C. Aaron (5-7)
  • All Those Secrets of the World, Jane Yolen, illus. by Leslie Baker. Little, Brown, 1991 (1+)
  • Along the Tracks, Tamar Bergman (6+)
  • The Angel with a Mouth Organ, Christobel Mattingley (2+)
  • The Ark, Benary-Isbert (3+)
  • Axe-time, Sword-time, Corcoran (6+)
  • Behind Barbed Wire, D.S. Davis, (6+) (Japanese American internment)
  • Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of Hidden Childhood during World War Two, N.S. Toll (5+) (Poland)
  • Blitzcat, Westall (6+)
  • Bomber’s Moon, Betty Vander Els (3+)
  • The Boy from Over There, Bergman (4+) (Holocaust)
  • The Bracelet, Yoshiko Uchida (2+)
  • Bright Candles, Nathanial Benchley (6+)
  • Brother Enemy, Mace (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Carrie’s War, Bawden (2+) (U.K)
  • Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice, Janet McNaughton. Tuckamore Books, 1994, (7+) (Canada)
  • The Cay Theodore Taylor (4+)
  • Chase Me, Catch Nobody, Haugaard (6+)
  • Children of Bach, Dillon (6+) (Holocaust)
  • The Children’s War, Theodore Taylor (3+)
  • The Cookcamp, Gary Paulsen (6+)
  • Creche of Krakow, Harvey Hirsch (2+)
  • Crutches, Peter Hartling (6+)
  • Daniel’s Story, Carol Matas. Scholastic, 1993 (6-8) (Holocaust)
  • Darkness Over the Land, Stiles (6+) (Germany)
  • David and Jonathan, Cynthia Voigt (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Dawn of Fear, Susan Cooper (2+) (England)
  • Dear Mili, Wilhelm Grimm (2+)
  • The Devil in Vienna, Doris Orgel (6+) (Nazi Germany)
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic, J. Yolen (4+)
  • Distant Summer, Patterson (6+)
  • Don’t Say a Word, Gehrts (6+)
  • Eddie Spaghetti on the Home Front, Frascino (3+)
  • The Edge of War, Horgan (3+) (Germany)
  • The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, Garrigue (3+)
  • The Exeter Blitz, Rees (6+) (England)
  • Faithful Elephants, Tsuchiya (2+)
  • The Farm Summer, Donald Hall (2+)
  • Fathom Five, Westall (6+)
  • Fireweed, Jill Paton Walsh (6+)
  • Fly Away Home, Nostlinger (6+)
  • Forever Nineteen, Baklanov (6+)
  • Goodbye, Glamour Girl, Tamar (6+)
  • Good Night, Mr. Tom, Michelle Magorian (6+) (England)
  • Henry, Bawden (3+) (England)
  • The Hideout, Heuck (3+)
  • Hiroshima No Pika, T. Maruki (4+)
  • His Enemy, His Friend, Tunis (3+)
  • Horses of Anger, Forman (6+)
  • The House of Sixty Fathers, Meindert De Jong. Harper & Row, 1956 (4-7) (China)
  • How My Parents Learned to Eat, Ina Friedman (2+)
  • How’s Business, Alison Prince (3+)
  • I am David, Anne Holm, Methuen, 1963 (6-8) (Holocaust)
  • I Had Seen Castles, Cynthia Rylant (6+)
  • I Looked Right, Denham (6+)
  • The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev (4+) (Holocaust, Poland)
  • Jacob’s Rescue, Malka Drucker & Michael Halperin (4+) (Holocaust)
  • Journey to America, Sonia Levitin. Aladdin, 1987 (4-6) (Holocaust)
  • Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation, Yoshiko Uchida (6+)
  • The Kingdom by the Sea, Westall (3+)
  • The Last Mission, Mazer (6+)
  • Letters From Italy, Fisher (3+)
  • Let the Celebrations Begin, Margaret Wild (2+)
  • The Lights Go on Again, Kit Pearson. Penguin, 1994 (1993) (5+)
  • The Lily Cupboard, Shulamith Openheim (3+) (Holocaust)
  • Lisa’s War, Carol Matas, (6+) (Holocaust)
  • The Little Riders, Shemin (3+)
  • The Long-haired Boy, Matthew (6+)
  • Long Live the Republic Jan prochazka (5+)
  • The Long Night Watch, Southall (6+)
  • Looking at the Moon, Kit Pearson. Puffin Books, 1993 (1991) (5+)
  • Los Alamos Light, Bograd (6+)
  • Love You Soldier, Amy Hest (3+)
  • McKenzie’s Boots, Noonan (6+) (Australia)
  • The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall (6+) (England)
  • The Man from the Other Side, Uri Orlev (3+) (Holocaust)
  • Max’s Gang, Frank Baer (6+)
  • The Miracle Tree, Christobel Mattingley (2+)
  • Molly Donnelly, Thesman (6+)
  • The Morning Glory War, Glassman (3+)
  • The Moved-Outers, Means (3+)
  • My Daddy was a Soldier: A World War II Story, Deborah Kogan Ray (1-4)
  • Naomi’s Road, Joy Kogawa, illus. by Matt Gould. Oxford University Press, 1986 (4-7) (Japanese Internment)
  • A Necessary End, Benchley (6+)
  • A Night in Distant Motion, Korschunov (6+)
  • North of Danger, Dale Fife (6+)
  • North to Freedom, Holm (3+) (Holocaust)
  • Number the Stars, Lois Lowry. Houghton Mifflin, 1989 (5-7) (Denmark)
  • One More Time, Ferry (6+)
  • The Other Side of the Family, Maureen Pople (3+) (Australia)
  • Pack of Wolves, Bykau (6+)
  • The Paladin, Garfield (6+)
  • A Pocket full of Seeds, M. Sachs (3-7) (Holocaust, France)
  • Rain of Fire, M.D. Bauer (4+)
  • Randolph’s Dream, Judith Mellecker (4+)
  • Raspberry One, Ferry (6+)
  • Refugee, Rose (6+)
  • Ride Out the Storm, Harris (6+)
  • Rose Blanche, Chrostophe Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti, illus. by Roberto Innocenti. Creative Education, 1985 (5-7)
  • Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr. Dell Yearling, 1979 (4-7) (Japan)
  • Salted Lemons, Smith (3+)
  • The Shadow Army, Rydberg (6+)
  • The Silver Sword, Serraillier (3+)
  • Sirens and Spies, Janet Taylor Lisle (6+)
  • The Sky is Falling, Kit Pearson (3+) (Canada)
  • The Snow Goose, Gallico (3+)
  • Snow Treasure, Marie McSwigan (3+) (Norway)
  • So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Watkins (6+)
  • Star Without a Sky, Ossowski (3+) (Holocaust)
  • Stepping on the Cracks, Mary Downing Hahn (3+)
  • The Summer of My German Soldier, B. Greene (6+)
  • A Time for Everything, Sallis (6+)
  • Timothy of the Cay, Theodore Taylor (4+)
  • To Fight in Silence, Wuorio (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France, Roth-Hanno (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Transport 7-41-R, Degens (6+)
  • Tug of War, Joan Lingard (6+)
  • Tunes for Bears to Dance to, Robert Cormier (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Twenty and Ten, Claire Hutchet Bishop (4+) (Holocaust)
  • Under the Blood-Red Sun, Salisbury (3+)
  • Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944, Siegal (6+) (Holocaust)
  • Waiting for Anya, Michael Morpurgo (3+) (Holocaust, France)
  • The Wall, Eve Bunting, illus. by Ronald Himler. Clarion, 1990 (5-7)
  • The War at Home, Green (6+)
  • We Were Not Like Other People, Efraim Sevela (6+)
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Kerr (2+)
  • The Winter When Time Was Frozen, Pelgrom (6+)
  • Who was that Masked Man, Anyway?, Avi (2+)
  • Who Won His War, Aaron C. Alex, (3-6)
  • The Wind is Not a River, Griese (3+)
  • The Winter When Time was Frozen, Els Pelgrom (3+)
  • Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sook Nyul Choi. Houghton, 1991 (4-7)