Chronological Period/1940's
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Wind Flyers
$19.99 Read moreThree-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long introduce readers to a band of under-celebrated World War II heroes–the Tuskege… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 068984879X
- 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 Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (National Book Award Finalist)
$15.99 Add to cartAn astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.
A National Book Award Finalist
A YALSA Award for Excellence- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250073499
- Language: English
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Blue
$11.99 Read moreA Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Book
With her father on the frontlines of World War II, a young girl gains strength by joining her community’s battle against the 1944 polio epidemic Ann Fay Honeycutt a- Series: Bakers Mountain Stories
- Author: Moyer Hostetter, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1590788354
- Language: English
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Year of Impossible Goodbyes
$7.99 Read moreIt is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to … [more below]
- Author: Choi, Sook Nyul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0440407591
- Language: English
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cart“The very model of excellence in nonfiction. . . . An astonishing and inspiring survey. . . . A necessary, exemplary book.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Through meticulously researched accounts- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 763669288
- Language: English
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)
$10.99 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… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1338255754
- Language: English
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Paper Hearts
$13.99 Add to cartA forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this “beautifully told true story about brave young women who refused to be victims and walked out of Auschwitz … [more below]
- Author: Wiviott, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1481439847
- Language: English
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The Cage: A Holocaust Memoir
$12.99 Add to cartA testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this “vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is a … [more below]
- Author: Sender, Ruth Minsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1481457225
- Language: English
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D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (Scholastic Focus)
$9.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings her signature action-packed narrative style to one of the most crucial battles of WWII.
The WWII invasion known as D-Day was the largest military endeavor i
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0545682509
- Language: English
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D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [The Young Readers Adaptation]
$15.99 Add to cartAdapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times-bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day–June 6, 1944–the day that led to the liberation of weste
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062918
- Language: English
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World War II History for Kids: 500 Facts
$24.99 Add to cartIncredible World War II facts for curious kids ages 8 to 12
Kids don’t need long, boring textbooks to learn about history! Starting with the events that set the stage for war and finishing with its aft
- Series: History Facts for Kids
- Author: Halls, Kelly Milner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798886086942
- Language: English
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Taffy of Torpedo Junction
$17.95 Add to cartBack in print
A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and … [more below]- Series: Chapel Hill Books
- Author: Wechter, Nell Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: August 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0807846198
- Language: English
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe: A Hero of the Holocaust
$12.95 Read moreMaximilian Kolbe’s decision to take the place of a condemned man in the Auschwitz concentration camp is one of the greatest stories of heroism to emerge from the Holocaust. This book brings to life fo
- Series: Vision Books
- Author: De Maria, Fiorella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643220
- Language: English
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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$40.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance du
- Author: Kix, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062322532
- Language: English
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- 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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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
$19.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted… [more below]
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 358522498
- Language: English
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