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Shadow on the mountain: a novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy
By Margi Preus. 2013
Shattered
By Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.Shadows on a sword: the second book of the Crusades (The Crusades ; #2)
By Karleen Bradford. 1996
Theo, a passionate young knight, can't wait to embark on the Holy Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. Along with his friend…
Amalric, a fellow knight, and Emma, a servant girl, he is ready to fight. But for all their conviction, none of these young people is prepared for the realities of war - for its brutality, the ways it will divide them, and the life and death choices it offers. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "There will be wolves" (DC14007), followed by "Lionheart's scribe" (DC19721). 1996. (The Crusades ; 2)Searching for Shona
By Margaret Jean Anderson. 1978
During World War II, children were evacuated from Edinburgh. A shy, wealthy girl on her way to Canada trades identities…
with an orphaned playmate bound for the Scottish countryside. Grades 5-8. 1978.Sarah Bishop
By Scott O'Dell. 1996
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and…
fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. Junior and Senior High. 1996.Run for your life (An On time's wing book)
By Wilma E Alexander. 1998
October 1918. Painfully shy ten-year-old Emily has much to worry about: the local bully, her loony Aunt Carrie, and the…
fate of her beloved soldier-father. When the local munitions plant explodes, her mother is ill with the Spanish influenza, and it is up to Emily and her cousin to rescue their family and neighbours. Finalist for the 2000 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 1998. (An On time's wing book)Run, boy, run: a novel
By Uri Orlev, Hillel Halkin. 2003
Eight-year-old Srulik escapes from Warsaw's Jewish ghetto and survives the rest of the war in Nazi-occupied Poland by pretending to…
be a Christian. After the war, having lost an arm, he reaffirms his original faith. Some violence. Grades 5-8. 2003. Uniform title: Ruts, yeled, ruts.Rowan the strange
By Julie Hearn. 2009
As the Second World War begins, Rowan is diagnosed as schizophrenic and sent away to a hospital where the latest…
treatments are available. But the treatments are experimental still - and nobody predicts the effect they will have on Rowan. For junior high readers. 2009.Red berries, white clouds, blue sky
By Sandra Dallas. 2015
After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to…
leave their California home, to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado. Grades 4-7. 2015.Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II (I am Canada)
By Hugh Brewster. 2010
Alistair "Allie" Morrison lets his friend Mackie talk him into enlisting for WWII, and after training for months, they participate…
in their first battle - the disastrous raid on the German-held port of Dieppe. Caught in the middle of a massacre, Allie and Mackie survive only to be captured and sent to POW Stalag VIIIB in Germany. Still shell-shocked from their fighting, the soldiers struggle to maintain their courage, while others, like Mackie, are determined to escape. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2010. (I am Canada)Private Peaceful
By Michael Morpurgo. 2004
Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of…
a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during WW1, and captures his memories as he looks back over his life. Full of stunningly researched detail and engrossing atmosphere, the book leads to a dramatic and moving conclusion. Both a love story and a deeply moving account of the horrors of the First World War, this book will reach everyone from 9 to 90. Grades 5-8. 2004.PoW
By Martin Booth. 2000
Fifteen-year-old Ted Foley, a ship's boy on the HMS Nomad, is captured by the Germans after his boat is sunk…
during World War I. No one escapes from his prisoner of war camp, deep in the heart of Germany. Ted watches prisoners freeze to death during the winters and get shot for trying to escape, and decides that he must get away somehow. He'll need maps, money, and luck - but he thinks he knows a way out. For junior and senior high readers. 2000.Histoire de galet
By Marie Cadieux. 2016
Une histoire de courage et de fraternité... Martin est un adolescent normal vivant à Dieppe. Mais la guerre fait rage…
et son pays, la France, est occupé par les Nazis. La cohabitation est difficile et les conditions de vie, précaires. Logé chez Madame Agnès, une vieille dame débrouillarde et dégourdie, Martin sera entraîné malgré lui dans le terrible second conflit mondial et fera une rencontre qui bouleversera sa vie. Années 3-6 et plus. 2016.Parvana, une enfance en Afghanistan (Le livre de poche)
By Deborah Ellis, Anne-Laure Brisac. 2001
Depuis l'arrivée des Talibans dans son pays, Parvana ne va plus à l'école. Elle vit avec sa famille, six dans…
une seule pièce. Son père est emprisonné. Sa mère décide de déguiser Parvana en garçon pour approvisionner la famille. Pendant que sa mère organise une école clandestine, Parvana gagne de l'argent en reprenant le travail de son père au marché. Elle a l'impression de vivre en plein cauchemar. Le portrait d'un peuple qui va d'une tragédie à l'autre et la courageuse lutte des femmes pour la survie. Suivi de: "Le voyage de Parvana". Années 4-7. 2001.Les bonbons venus du ciel
By Marie-Andrée Boucher. 2009
Allemagne, 1939. Peter, son grand-père et sa mère tentent tant que bien que mal de survivre à la guerre. Un…
pilote trouve un moyen original pour remonter le moral des jeunes Allemands, mais surtout celui du jeune Peter. Années 2-4. 2009.Once
By Morris Gleitzman. 2005
Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland, but he is convinced his parents are still alive and that they…
will one day come back to get him. When Nazi soldiers come to the orphanage Felix decides to escape and make his way home. The journey to find his parents is a long and difficult one, as Poland is occupied by the Nazis and is a dangerous place for a Jewish boy. Felix manages to live and look after himself and another orphan, Zelda, with the help of a kind dentist, Barney, who is hiding and looking after a number of Jewish children. Grades 5-8. 2005.Nobody's child
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2003
When the Armenians of Turkey are marched into the desert to die in 1915, Mariam is rescued by her Turkish…
friend Rustem, and lives with mixed acceptance as a guest in his father's harem. Kevork is shot and left for dead in a mass grave in the desert, but is rescued by nomadic Arabs and nurtured back to health. Both teens must choose between the security of an adopted home or the risk of death in search of family. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The Hunger". For senior high readers. 2003.Naomi's road
By Joy Kogawa. 1986
My brother's secret
By Dan Smith. 2014
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed…
on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis. Grades 3-6. 2014.Murder on the Ridge (Across the steel river)
By Ted Stenhouse. 2006
Canada, 1952. Best friends Arthur, a Blackfoot Indian, and Will, a white boy, from "A Dirty Deed" (DC25986), investigate the…
death of a Blackfoot soldier in World War I after they read a letter that suggests he was murdered and not killed by enemy fire. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. Grades 5-8. 2006.