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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
"The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
*Newbery Honor book *Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award This #1 New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Fighting Words, and for fans of Fish in a Tree and Sarah,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the role the US Navy played in WWII, providing details on life in the Navy, the different jobs available, and how naval ships were used.
Author
Series
I survived volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Charlie's older brother Joe is called up in 1942, Charlie learns about the tedium and dangers of war through Joe's letters--and his brother's bravery in dealing with a spy as D-Day approaches, finally gives Charlie the strength to stand up to the local bully.
12) Snow treasure
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The WWII invasion of Allied troops into German-occupied Europe, known as D-Day, was the largest military endeavor in history. By the time it occurred on June 6, 1944, Hitler and the Axis powers had a chokehold grip on the European continent, which the Allies called "Fortress Europe." Behind enemy lines, Nazi Germany was engaged in the mass extermination of the Jewish people and the oppression of civilians across Europe. The goal of D-Day was no less...
14) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
15) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
16) Dash
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
17) Duke
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1944 Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened and determined to get his dog back.
19) War dog: a novel
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet is requisitioned by the British Army and sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searching for survivors of Germany's bombing raids on English cities, and in Italy at the end of the war.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.
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