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Wives at war
By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
War affects the Conway sisters in different ways. While working at the Ministry of Labour, Babs meets an American photographer…
who may be more than he purports. Rosie's marriage is on the rocks. Polly becomes entangled in intrigues. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2003Dust of dreams: Book Nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Malazan Book of the Fallen Ser. #9)
By Steven Erikson, Tom Doherty Associates. 2010
Adjunct Tavore, from Toll the Hounds (DB 70385), leads the Malazan army into the wastelands to fight for an unknown…
cause. Meanwhile, other clans converge there to confront their own destinies. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2009Red berries, white clouds, blue sky
By Sandra Dallas. 2014
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. For grades 3-6No-no boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By John Okada. 1981
A 25-year-old man returns home to Seattle after spending two years in an internment camp for being Japanese-American, and another…
two years in prison for refusing to join the United States Army during World War II. 1976Sunrise over Fallujah
By Walter Dean Myers. 2008
Iraq, 2003. Robin "Birdy" Perry joins the army after high school and becomes involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Birdy writes…
about his experiences to his uncle Richie, a Vietnam War veteran, from Fallen Angels (RC 29775, BR 17796). Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2008The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007A troubled peace (Under A War-Torn Sky #2)
By Laura Elliott. 2009
1945. World War II pilot Henry Forester from Under a War-Torn Sky (DB 68311), returns home to Virginia and struggles…
with nightmares. Henry ventures to France to find a boy who saved his life and is shocked at the lingering devastation. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2009Number the stars: A Newbery Award Winner
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 sis- ter. 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." For grades 3-6 and older readers. Newbery Medal. 1989