World War
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Butterfly, the PB
$9.99 Add to cartA tale of friendship and bravery in the midst of unthinkable horror, this classic Holocaust story from master storyteller Patricia Polacco is a vital lesson in the power of hope.
In this Holocaust sto- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0142413062
- 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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The Butterfly
$18.99 Add to cartA tale of friendship and bravery in the midst of unthinkable horror, this classic Holocaust story from master storyteller Patricia Polacco is a vital lesson in the power of hope.
In this Holocaust sto- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0399231706
- Language: English
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Irena’s Children: Young Readers Edition; A True Story of Courage
$8.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler–the “female Oskar Schindler”–who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children fr… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1481449923
- 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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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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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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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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On the Home Front with Valentina: A Diary from 1940 to 1943
$9.99 Read moreCreated 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 Artifact Hunters
$17.99 Read moreIsaac Wolf can travel through time. But he’s also in a race against it.
With tensions in Prague rising at the height of World War II, Isaac Wolf is forced to leave home with nothing more than a small- Author: Fox, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 045147869X
- Language: English
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Stubby
$7.99 Add to cartA scrappy stray becomes one of the greatest dogs in military history
Stubby the war dog narrates the story of his life–from his days as a stray to his time on the battlefields of France Adopted b… [more below]- Series: Dog Diaries #7
- Author: Klimo, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0385392435
- 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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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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Angel of Bataan: The Life of a World War II Army Nurse in the War Zone and at Home
$26.83 Add to cartAlice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars. But there is more to the story than that. Across the nation, wherever one of the seve… [more below]
- Author: Macdougall, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933741
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend–with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1557509948
- 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
