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The boys who challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club
By Phillip M Hoose. 2015
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old…
Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Junior High readers and older. 2015.Tell no one who you are: the hidden childhood of Régine Miller
By Walter Buchignani. 1994
The story of Régine Miller, who, as a young Jewish girl during World War II, was hidden by Belgium's underground…
movement and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Grades 5-8. c1994.Patton's ghost corps: cracking the Siegfried Line
By Nathan Prefer. 1998
Account of troops in the 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps who were left to defend the entire front…
line while the Battle of the Bulge raged north of their position. Describes how the new recruits faced seasoned veterans of the Third Reich, as well as freezing snow, ice, and fog. 1998.Hidden gold
By Ella Burakowski. 2015
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.Branded by the pink triangle
By Carolyn Jackson, Ken Setterington, Malcolm Lester, Jonathan Schmidt. 2013
A history of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the years of the Holocaust. When the Nazis…
came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.Guardian angel house (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers)
By Kathy Clark. 2009
Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in 1944.…
So why were twelve-year-old Susan and her sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe? Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered by a group of nuns who risk their lives to protect them. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.I am a star: child of the Holocaust
By Inge Auerbacher. 1999
Dieppe: Canada's darkest day of World War II
By Hugh Brewster. 2009
On the night of August 19, 1942, a force of five thousand Canadians launched an attack on the Nazi-held French…
port of Dieppe. When it was over, the Allies were forced to retreat, nearly a thousand Canadian troops lay dead, and almost two thousand were taken prisoner. For years, defenders of the raid claimed that the Allies learned valuable lessons from Dieppe that were put to use later in the war, but others believed that the Canadian soldiers had been used as cannon fodder. Includes sections about the evacuation and the POW experiences. Explicit descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2009.D-day landings: the story of the Allied invasion (Dk readers)
By Richard Platt. 2004
How did the Allies of World War II plan and execute the most massive and daring invasion in military history?…
Early in the morning of June 6, 1944, more ships, men, and air support than ever before landed on the beaches of Normandy. Learn about the background, events and consequences of the attack. Some violence. Grades 2-4. 2004.Battle in the arctic seas: the story of convoy PQ 17
By Theodore Taylor. 1976
In the summer of 1942, the British admiralty decided to abandon a convoy sent from Iceland to Murmansk. The merchant…
ships attempted to avoid German attacks, but the result was the worst convoy disaster up to that time. For junior and senior high readers. c1976.Every spring, Canada's capital bursts into colour with thousands of tulip blooms. Although this annual event has much to do…
with a love of flowers, it's also the celebration of a friendship that blossomed between two countries more than half a century ago. This is one of the many stories of the dark days of the Second World War. Grades 2-4. 2004.D-Day: Canadian heroes in the famous invasion of World War II (Amazing stories)
By Tom Douglas. 2004
On June 6, 1944, a daring and ambitious invasion of Europe changed the course of World War II, eventually leading…
to the surrender of Nazi Germany. During the night, through storms and high seas, the Allied forces swept towards the beaches of Normandy in France. This is the story of the bravery, the heroism, and the sheer dumb luck of the more than 14,000 Canadians who played a crucial role in that incredible event. 2004.The last train: a Holocaust story
By Rona Arato. 2013
The harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation of…
Hungary during the final years of World War II. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2013.The life and death of Adolf Hitler
By James Giblin. 2002
Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and…
career from his birth in Austria in 1889 to his death in Berlin in 1945. Briefly discusses this tyrant's legacy. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Siebert Award. 2002.Winter in wartime
By Jan Terlouw. 1976
Taut and powerful story of a fifteen-year-old Dutch boy burdened with the dangerous task of hiding an English paratrooper under…
the eyes of the Germans. For junior and senior high readers. 1976. Uniform title: Oorlogswinter.Touch wood: a girlhood in occupied France
By Renée Roth-Hano. 1988
The author recreates her girlhood experiences as a Jewish child in France during World War II. Written as a diary,…
her story takes her from the summer of 1940 when the Nazi invasion forces her family to flee, through a prolonged separation in which she and her sisters live in a home run by Catholic nuns, through the confusion of the Allied invasion, to her family's reunion in Paris. Grades 5-8. 1988.Too young to fight: memories from our youth during World War II
By Priscilla Galloway. 1999
A collection of reminiscences by Canadian authors about living through the Second World War as children. Each attempts to explain…
the changes and impact that the war brought to them and their families. Writers include Jean Little, Monica Hughes, Budge Wilson, Brian Doyle, and Janet Lunn. Grades 4-7. 1999.To life
By Ruth Minsky Sender. 1988
This autobiography begins with the author's liberation from Auschwitz and concludes with her arrival in the United States in 1950.…
After the war, Jewish survivors continued to suffer discrimination from local Germans and Russian soldiers. Sequel to "The cage". For junior and senior high readers. c1988.The tunnel king: the true story of Wally Floody and the great escape
By Barbara Hehner. 2004
Wally Flood, a Canadian miner turned pilot during World War II, was shot down and put in a prisoner-of-war camp.…
Determined to escape, he eventually joined a group that began organizing the largest breakout ever, now called The Great Escape - over 600 men, tunnelling their way out. They took turns digging, inventing tools, forging documents, and hiding the tons of sand they dug from the tunnels, while facing the constant threat of discovery, with key help from Wally, known as the Tunnel King. Grades 5-8. 2004.The journey back
By Johanna Reiss. 1976