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By Joan Lingard. 1989
Fourteen-year-old twins Astra and Hugo and their family flee Latvia as the Russian army advances, and so begins a nightmare…
journey through Poland to Germany. Hugo becomes separated from his family, ending up near Hamburg, whilst the rest of the family, after months of living in appalling refugee camps, end up in Southern Germany. But Hugo and Astra are determined to find one another. Junior High. 1989.By Eric Walters. 2010
George and his family have been relocated to Bermuda in the hope that the Nazi agents who've been trying to…
kill them lose the scent and think them dead. But trouble is never far behind George and Jack, and they soon find themselves in the face of danger yet again. Sequel to "Shell shocked", followed by "Enigma". Grades 5-8. 2010.By John Marsden. 1996
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the…
enemies who have invaded their country. For junior high and older reader. Sequel to "The dead of the night" (DC 28215). Followed by "Darkness, be my friend " (DC28213). 1996.By Jane Yolen. 2015
By Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn. 1981
Orphaned Rose Larkin is 12 years old when circumstances force her to move to rural Ontario. There, in an old…
root cellar, she is taken back in time to the period of the American Civil War. Winner of the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. Grades 5-8. 1981.By Richard Peck. 2003
In 1916, 15-year-old Howard Leland Hutchings visits his father's childhood home in Grand Tower, Illinois. He learns that during the…
early days of the Civil War, his family took in two mysterious young ladies, Delphine and Calinda Duval, who had fled New Orleans to come north. Could the darker-skinned Calinda be the slave of Delphine? And what is their relation to Howard's father? For junior high readers. 2003.By Nina Bawden. 1993
At his grandfather's funeral in a Greek village, half-Greek and half-Welsh London-bred teenager Plato Jones becomes aware of the World…
War II-era conflict that soured the relations between his two sets of grandparents. While his Welsh grandfather was a hero in the Greek resistance, his other grandfather may have been a coward and a traitor. Senior high and older readers. 1993.By John Marsden. 1999
The seventh and final volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series. It revolves around a dwindling group of teenagers fighting for…
their lives and Australia's survival against a brutal invading army. Here, as the war enters a final phase, the dangers for narrator Ellie and her friends seem greater than ever. Who among them will find a lasting peace? For junior high and older readers. 1999. (Tomorrow series ; 7)By Elizabeth McDavid Jones. 2003
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam…
comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy. Grades 3-6. 2003.By John Marsden. 1998
In this sequel to "Burning for Revenge" (DC28212), teenagers Ellie, Lee, Homer, Fi, and Kevin are still in Australia fighting…
the invaders of their homeland. They rescue four feral children and hide out in the desert until they are attacked by enemy forces. Followed by "The other side of dawn" (DC28217). For junior and senior high readers. 1998. (Tomorrow series ; 6)By Sharon G Palermo. 1995
Ten-year-old Rennie Trannie lives in Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia during WW2. When Mussolini joins forces with Germany the police arrest…
her father as an Italian "detainee." Rennie has to try to understand why her community would turn against its Italian members so quickly and so violently. Grades 5-8. 1995.By Leonard Wibberley. 1976
The war of 1812 finds young Peter Treegate serving on a ship commanded by his older brother. Although Peter chafes…
under his brother's discipline, the two unite in the decisive engagement at New Orleans, when Andrew Jackson's forces fight the last big battle. Grades 5-8. c1976.By Eric Walters. 1999
In 1915, thirteen-year-old William's mother ships him off to Baddeck, Nova Scotia, to work with Alexander Graham Bell on developing…
a hydrofoil for use in the fight against German submarines. William wants to work with Bell and the other engineers but everyone seems to want to keep him away from the project. Before he knows it he is caught up in a spine-tingling mystery that only he can solve. Grades 5-8. 1999.By Avi. 2012
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young…
Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy. Grades 4-7. 2012.By John Marsden. 1997
As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers…
from New Zealand, who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield. Some violence. Sequel to "Killing frost" . Followed by "Burning for revenge" . Junior and Senior High .1997. (Tomorrow series ; 4)By Lois Lowry. 1989
For ten-year-old Annemarie, life in occupied Copenhagen in 1943 is not much changed by the war - until the Nazi…
persecution of Danish Jews begins. Annemarie's family helps a Jewish friend by having her pose as Annemarie's dead sister. When a packet must be taken to the captain of a ship smuggling Jews to Sweden, Annemarie learns that being brave means "not thinking - about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do." Grades 3-6. 1990 Newbery Medal award winner. Textbook format. 1989.By Susan Cooper. 1972
Three English children, fascinated by the air raids during World War II, gradually become aware of true fear and horror…
when they seek vengeance on an opposing gang that destroyed their hideaway. Grades 4-7. 1972.By Amy Winifred Cramp Wilkinson. 1968
A Polish boy lost in bombed-out Warsaw lives like a choked animal in a filty cellar, cringing from all human…
contact. For young adults. First published as "God in hell." 1968.By Joseph Joffo. 1973
En France, sous l'occupation Allemande, un jeune Juif de dix ans raconte comment, lui et son frère à peine plus…
vieux, ont du fuir vers le Zone Libre. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 1973.