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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorKeeper of Lost Children
Sadeqa Johnson · 464 pages
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty
Ellen Emerson White · 188 pages
An agonizing dilemma plagues these brother-sister diarists. He is a Marine stationed in Vietnam. She is at home in America, far away from her brother's war zone, fighting for peace. As the marine writes in his journal about his experiences as a soldier, fighting an enemy he can't see, his sister seeks peace. In these gripping installments of DEAR AMERICA and MY NAME IS AMERICA, Ellen Emerson White
Bat 6
Virginia Euwer Wolff · 230 pages
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki and Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the subject of Jap
A Long Walk To Water
Linda Sue Park
Rilla of Ingleside
L.M. Montgomery · 277 pages
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
The Day of the Pelican
Katherine Paterson · 152 pages
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series)
Joyce Hansen · 202 pages
The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.
Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates
Jean Little · 235 pages
In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
Blitzcat
Robert Westall · 230 pages
During World War II a black cat journeys all across war-ravaged England in an effort to track down her beloved master.
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 (Dear America Series)
Barry Denenberg · 158 pages
A Confederate girl records the hardships of Southern life as the Civil War rages at her doorstep and tears her family and her country apart.
Amelia's War
Ann Rinaldi · 266 pages
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
War Horse
Michael Morpurgo · 158 pages
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat · 324 pages
Orphaned when their Royalist father is killed during the Civil War, the four Beverley children are taken into hiding in a cottage in the New Forest and disguised as the grandchildren of a poor forester.
Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Iain Lawrence · 240 pages
Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny's father is swept up in the war to end all wars. He proudly enlists with his British countrymen to fight at the front in France. The war, though, is nothing like what any sold
The Perilous Road
William O. Steele · 173 pages
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier · 216 pages
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
The Singing Tree
Kate Seredy · 247 pages
Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.
A Bridge Across the Ocean
Susan Meissner · 368 pages
"World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American
The Liberation
Kate Furnivall · 560 pages
News of the World
Paulette Jiles · 264 pages
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives
Winter in Madrid
C.J. Sansom · 200 pages
The Summer Garden
Paullina Simons · 807 pages
Tatiana and Alexander have suffered the worst the twentieth centuary had to offer. After years of seperation, they are miraculously reunited in America, the land of their dreams. They have proved to each other that their love is greater than the vast evil of the world ... but they are strangers. In the climate of fear and mistrust of the Cold War, dark forces are at work in the US that treaten the
Dungeon
Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic · 219 pages
The German Heiress
Anika Scott · 384 pages