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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorShadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus · 320 pages
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.
Waiting For Anya
Michael Morpurgo · 172 pages
A boy living in a Pyrennean village under German occupation becomes involved in a network which helps Jews escape to Spain.
Shadows on the Sea
Joan Hiatt Harlow · 256 pages
My Friend the Enemy
Dan Smith · 305 pages
"1941. It's wartime and when a German plane crashes in flames near Peter's home, he rushes over hoping to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is an injured young airman. He needs help, but can either of them trust the enemy?"--Page 4 of cover.
The Escape
Robert Muchamore · 298 pages
As two British children are being hunted by German agents, British spy Charles Henderson is trying to reach them first, but to do it he must depend on the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan.
A Father's Promise
Donna Lynn Hess · 250 pages
When the Nazis invade Poland and bomb his home city of Warsaw, young Rudi Kaplan finds out that he is Hitler's enemy because he is a Pole, a Jew, and a Christian. For weeks he watches as his friends and neighbors are kicked out of their homes, beaten, and arrested by the invaders. Rudi and his father try to help the wounded and starving Poles while keeping out of the Germans' way; but they know th
The Art of Keeping Cool
Janet Taylor Lisle · 253 pages
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
Lauren Tarshis · 86 pages
Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Harry Mazer · 108 pages
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
Camp X
Eric Walters · 233 pages
Jack and George have assumed new identities and are back at work as special operatives, keeping an eye out for suspicious activity at an ammunitions plant. They don't have to wait long before they uncover a plot by German spies to blow up the plant and everyone in it! It's up to the quickthinking boys to find a way to stop them and stay alive while doing it ...
Stones in Water
Donna Jo Napoli · 209 pages
The Journal of Ben Uchida
Barry Denenberg · 157 pages
Hitler's Canary
Sandi Toksvig · 208 pages
Bamsé Skolvud a 12 ans quand les nazis envahissent Copenhague. Son meilleur ami, Anton Beilin, est juif. Confronté à l'antisémitisme, il va tout faire pour protéger Anton et sa famille.
The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall · 189 pages
After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.
The Island on Bird Street
Uri Orlev · 162 pages
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
T4
Ann Clare LeZotte · 112 pages
When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Michelle Magorian · 318 pages
During World War II, an aging recluse's stony heart is softened by his friendship with a young evacuee from London.
Daniel's Story
Carol Matas · 136 pages
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War 2 Soldier
Walter Dean Myers · 140 pages
The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 192 pages
Day 264. It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shiver