Chronological Period/1940's
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Friedrich
$7.99 Add to cart“Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family.”–The New York Times
His best friend
Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award- Author: Richter, Hans Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0140322051
- Language: English
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
$6.99 Add to cartGripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children’s experiences during the Holocaust.
These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and gi… [more below]
- Series: Survivors
- Author: Zullo, Allan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0439669960
- Language: English
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Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves
$19.99 Add to cartIn this moving and timeless story, award-winning author L. M. Elliott captures life on the U.S. homefront during World War II, weaving a rich portrait of a family reeling from loss and the chilling ye
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063056569
- Language: English
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The Rhino in Right Field
$7.99 Add to cart“Laugh-out-loud fun…A winner in every way.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Funny and good-hearted.” –Publishers Weekly A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents-… [more below]
- Series: Washington Park Stories
- Author: Dekeyser, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1534406271
- Language: English
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On the Horizon
$8.99 Add to cartFrom 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0358668077
- 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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Sole Survivor
$16.00 Add to cartOn November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim, who, with no knowledge of t… [more below]
- Author: McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0932538886
- Language: English
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The Last Train: A Holocaust Story
$13.95 Read moreThe Last Train is the harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation during the final years of World War II.
Living in the town o- Author: Arato, Rona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1771473967
- Language: English
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Victor Dowd and the World War II Ghost Army: A Spy on History Book
$9.95 Read moreYour Mission: Find Victor’s missing sketchbook using spycraft tools to uncover hidden codes
It’s a true story of deception: Meet the top-secret Ghost Army, a group of artists and sound engineers tr- Series: Spy on History
- Author: Alberti, Enigma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 02, 2019
- ISBN10: 1523507705
- Language: English
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Cape
$17.99 Read more“Readers…will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and superpowered action.” —Booklist (starred review)
Hidden Figures m
“Has the exciting pace of a superhero adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews- Series: League of Secret Heroes #1
- Author: Hannigan, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1534439110
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson: American Hero
$4.99 Add to cartJust in time for the major motion picture release, discover everything you wanted to know about Jackie Robinson
To tie- in with the April 2013 release of the movie 42, the life story of Jackie Robinso… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0545540062
- Language: English
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Theater Shoes
$9.99 Add to cartA beautiful gift edition of the beloved classic about three orphan siblings and their love of music, theater, and dance.
When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother,- Series: Shoe Books
- Author: Streatfeild, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0679854347
- Language: English
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The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
$8.99 Read moreWhen the Nazis occupied Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation.
Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet during that perilous time, many Jews found refuge in an unl- Author: Ruelle, Karen Gray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0823423042
- Language: English
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Pájaro Blanco = White Bird
$18.95 Read moreAhora también una gran producción cinematográfica titulada Alas blancas, coprotagonizada por Helen Mirren y Gillian Anderson.
Libro ganador del Premio Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner 2020. En esta- Series: Wonder
- Author: Palacio, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2020
- ISBN10: 6073188293
- Language: Spanish
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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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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)
$18.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recomme
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 133825572X
- Language: English
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World War II Infantrymen: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYou are on the front lines at the height of World War II, fighting bravely against Germany and the other Axis powers. Will you: Fight alongside Filipino soldiers to defend the Philippines’ Bataan Peni… [more below]
- Series: You Choose Books (Paperback)
- Author: Otfinoski, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620657163
- Language: English
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The Road to Memphis
$9.99 Add to cartA stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!
As America hovers on the brink of war, s- Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12, 2016
- ISBN10: 1101997559
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1481449389
- Language: English
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Satch & Me
$9.99 Add to cart“You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever?”
Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a missi
- Series: Baseball Card Adventures
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0060594934
- Language: English
