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A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story
$18.99 Read moreA heartbreaking but essential perspective on war and survival.–starred, Kirkus Reviews
In this deeply moving nonfiction picture book, award-winning author Caren Stelson brings Sachiko Yasui’s stor
- Author: Stelson, Caren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 154152148X
- Language: English
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The Story of the Second World War for Children
$14.95 Add to cartPublished in association with Imperial War Museums, The Story of the Second World War for Children sensitively teaches kids about history’s deadliest conflict.
Packed with photographs, maps, and detail
- Series: Y
- Author: Chrisp, Peter
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1783124504
- Language: English
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Can You Survive a World War II Escape?: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Read moreCAPTURED! World War II rages across the globe, and you have fallen into enemy hands. You quickly discover that life as a prisoner of war can be brutal, and you’ll do anything to escape. Will you try m… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Great Escapes
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669061426
- Language: English
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The Island on Bird Street
$9.99 Add to cartDuring 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.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Orlev, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0395616239
- Language: English
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The Secret Elephant: Inspired by a True Story of Friendship
$18.99 Read moreA remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Inspired by a true story, this uplifting picture book is a perfect read for animal lovers of all … [more below]
- Author: Rankin, Ellan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 059370326X
- Language: English
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The Hiding Place: A Graphic Novel
$24.99 Add to cartIt’s World War II. Darkness has fallen over the world as the Nazis spread hatred, fear, and war–no one feels safe. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, one woman fights against the injustic… [more below]
- Author: Ten Boom, Corrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0800762541
- Language: English
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On the Horizon
$16.99 Read moreFrom two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white i
- Author: Lowry, Lois
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0358129400
- Language: English
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The Swallows’ Flight
$8.99 Read more“A triumph.” –Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials saga
Four young lives are forever changed at the dawn of World War II in this “stirring and unforgettable” (Kirkus Reviews,- Author: McKay, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 166590092X
- Language: English
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Spies
$17.95 Add to cartDiscover the exciting and dangerous lives of spies and secret agents from Blue Peter Award-winning David Long and rising star Terri Po.
A single spy can save thousands of lives.
Spies and secret agent- Author: Long, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0571361854
- Language: English
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Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story
$9.99 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Selection April 2018
2018 Cybils Award Finalist, Elementary Non-Fiction
BRLA 2018 Southwest Book Award
2019 Southwest Books of the Year: Kid Pick
2020 Grand Canyon Award, Nonfic- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807511358
- Language: English
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The History of Pearl Harbor: A World War II Book for New Readers
$7.99 Add to cartExplore the history of Pearl Harbor–the attack that brought America into World War 2
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack against the Pearl Harbor naval base in Oahu,- Series: History Of: A Biography Series for New Readers
- Author: Katz, Susan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1648769101
- Language: English
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On the Home Front with Valentina: A Diary from 1940 to 1943
$9.99 Add to cartCreated in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino, Nuestras Voces shares inspiring Latino stories. In 1940, eleven-year-old Valentina lives in El Paso,… [more below]
- Series: Nuestras Voces
- Author: Oviedo, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669012689
- Language: English
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The Vanished Collection
$17.95 Add to cart“Engrossing … The book reads like a detective story.”–The Washington Post
It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn’t seen for years, were the names of the maste
- Author: Baer de Perignon, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1939931983
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
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Terry: The Inspiring Story of a Little Girl’s Survival as a POW During WWII
$29.95 Add to cartTerry’s father, Norris Wadsworth, was sent to help start a pineapple plantation and cannery on a new frontier in the Philippines. While the rich, dark soil produced golden fruit, the Wadsworths and ot… [more below]
- Author: Warne, Terry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1432789732
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- Language: English
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Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon
$27.95 Add to cartIt was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific–
All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats
- Author: Couffer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 0292718721
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Read moreThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer
$32.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
A well-rese… [more below]- Series: Aviation Week Books
- Author: O’Neill, Brian D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0071341455
- Language: English
