Sharon Public Library
Back / Home / Catalog / About the Library

Having trouble viewing this newsletter? Click Here

Children's Historical Fiction: World War I through World War II/Holocaust
World War I
Tree by leaf - Cynthia Voigt
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2000
 ISBN-13: 9780606197304
 ISBN-10: 0606197303
A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.
The Holocaust (1939-- 1945)
The broken mirror : a novella - Kirk Douglas
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1997
 ISBN-13: 9780689814938
 ISBN-10: 0689814933
At the end of World War II, young Moishe is the only one of his family still alive and is left broken by his experiences, so he chooses not to be seen as a Jew and tells people he is a gypsy, until the light of a Sabbath candle begins to change his thoughts and warm his heart once more.
Daniel half human and the good Nazi : And The Good Nazi - David Chotjewitz and Doris Orgel
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/12/2004
 ISBN-13: 9780689857478
 ISBN-10: 0689857470
Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.
David and Max - Gary Provost and Gail Provost Stockwell
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2006
 ISBN-13: 9780827608375
 ISBN-10: 0827608373
While spending the summer with his grandfather Max and helping him search for a friend believed to have perished in the Holocaust, twelve-year-old David discovers many things about Max's terrible years during World War II and subsequent family relationships. Reprint.
The devil's arithmetic - Jane Yolen
Publisher: Puffin Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1990
 ISBN-13: 9780140345353
 ISBN-10: 0140345353
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The entertainer and the dybbuk - Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2007
 ISBN-13: 9780061344459
 ISBN-10: 0061344451
When he is possessed by the soul of Avrom, a fellow soldier who saved his life, Freddie, a young American soldier and ventriloquist, takes his act to the heart of Germany where he, bent on revenge, searches for the Nazi who brutally murdered Avrom and his young sister. 25,000 first printing.
Escape from Warsaw - Ian Serraillier and Erwin Hoffmann
Publisher: Scholastic
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1990
 ISBN-13: 9780590437158
 ISBN-10: 0590437151
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, three children who have been separated from their family flee Warsaw.
In my enemy's house - Carol Matas
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1999
 ISBN-13: 9780689813542
 ISBN-10: 0689813546
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow, Poland, during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
The island on Bird Street - Uri Orlev
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/26/1984
 ISBN-13: 9780395338872
 ISBN-10: 0395338875
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story - Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin
Publisher: Bantam Skylark
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1993
 ISBN-13: 9780553089769
 ISBN-10: 0553089765
After escaping from the ghetto in which his family is imprisoned, Jewish boy Jacob Gutgelt lives for four years passing as a non-Jew, struggling through the daily terror of being caught.
The night crossing - Karen Ackerman and Elizabeth Sayles
Publisher: Knopf
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1994
 ISBN-13: 9780679831693
 ISBN-10: 067983169X
The Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe, so they travel by night to the Swiss border, avoiding the German soldiers everywhere, but Clara puts on her bravest front, which ultimately saves their lives.
Number the stars - Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/24/1989
 ISBN-13: 9780395510605
 ISBN-10: 0395510600
During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter a Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Run, boy, run : a novel - Uri Orlev and Hillel Halkin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/27/2003
 ISBN-13: 9780618164653
 ISBN-10: 0618164650
Based on a true story, Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Shadow of the wall - Christa Laird
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1990
 ISBN-13: 9780688093365
 ISBN-10: 0688093361
Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization.
When Hitler stole pink rabbit - Judith Kerr
Publisher: Puffin Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/22/2009
 ISBN-13: 9780142414088
 ISBN-10: 0142414085
Portrays the experiences of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family as they are forced to leave Hitler's Germany to seek refuge in neighboring countries.
World War II
Aleutian sparrow - Karen Hesse
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2003
 ISBN-13: 9780689861895
 ISBN-10: 0689861893
Based on the true story of the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the summer of 1942, a young Aleut girl tells what life was like when her small home of Kashega was taken over and she, along with her family and community, were put into internment camps in her own country. 50,000 first printing.
The art of keeping cool - Janet Taylor Lisle
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2000
 ISBN-13: 9780689837876
 ISBN-10: 0689837879
Set during World War II, young Robert worries about his cousin who, an artist himself, becomes intrigued by the mysterious German painter living near them in the woods as it is rumored that he may be a spy.
Bat 6 - Virginia Euwer Wolff
Publisher: Scholastic Press
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1998
 ISBN-13: 9780590897990
 ISBN-10: 0590897993
An important softball game--called Bat 6--which takes place in 1948 between two teams of sixth-grade girls explodes catastrophically because of the prejudice surrounding two new girls who are "different.".
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2003
 ISBN-13: 9780440229124
 ISBN-10: 044022912X
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two - Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Speak
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/20/2006
 ISBN-13: 9780142405963
 ISBN-10: 0142405965
Using their native language, the Navajo Marines played an invaluable part in World War II as they sent messages, did maneuvers, and completed tasks with words that couldn't be deciphered by the enemy. Reprint.
The green glass sea (sequel White Sands, Red Menace) - Ellen Klages
Publisher: Viking
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/19/2006
 ISBN-13: 9780670061341
 ISBN-10: 0670061344
Dewey Kerrigan, while living with her scientist father who is working on a top secret government program, has no idea how the Manhattan Project will change the world as she befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her.
Lily's crossing (companion Willow Run) - Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Delacorte Press
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1997
 ISBN-13: 9780385321426
 ISBN-10: 0385321422
Her childhood interrupted by the Second World War, young Lily worries afout her father while she is left in the care of her bossy grandmother, and the only other young person around is Albert, a war refugee from Hungary.
My brother, my sister, and I - Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Publisher: Bradbury Press
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1994
 ISBN-13: 9780027925265
 ISBN-10: 0027925269
The author of the critically acclaimed So Far from the Bamboo Grove continues her autobiography, describing the hardships, poverty, tragedies, and struggles of life for her and her two older siblings, living as refugees in post-World War II Japan.
Snow treasure - Marie McSwigan and Mary Reardon
Publisher: Dutton's Children's Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2005
 ISBN-13: 9780525476269
 ISBN-10: 0525476261
Based on a true story, this heroic tale, set in Norway during World War II, follows a group of courageous schoolchildren who outwit the invading Nazis by sledding thirteen tons of gold bricks down the mountain to a waiting ship, keeping their country's treasure out of Nazi hands.
Stepping on the cracks - Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Clarion Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/28/1991
 ISBN-13: 9780395585078
 ISBN-10: 0395585074
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
A traitor among us - Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Publisher: Eerdmans
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/1997
 ISBN-13: 9780802851505
 ISBN-10: 0802851509
In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village.
Where the ground meets the sky - Jacqueline Davies
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2002
 ISBN-13: 9780761451051
 ISBN-10: 0761451056
During World War II, twelve-year-old Hazel is uprooted from her quiet, East Coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project.
Weedflower - Cynthia Kadohata
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/28/2006
 ISBN-13: 9780689865749
 ISBN-10: 0689865740
When the only world she ever knew is turned upside-down after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her family is forced to move into an internment camp, Sumiko is left saddened and confused until a new friendship with a Mohave boy, Frank, on the Indian reservation gives her the inspiration she needs to manage the difficult times ahead. 100,000 first printing.
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Sharon Public Library at
781-784-1578, 11 North Main Street, Sharon, MA 02067

© 2011 EBSCO Publishing, Powered by The Title Source TM