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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorProjekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
Alan Gratz · 309 pages
It's the height of World War II. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael, like his parents, is a spy. He joins the Hitler Youth, taking part in their horrific games and book-burning, despising everything they stand for but using his insider knowledge to bring important information back to his parents and the British Secret Ser
My Brother's Secret
Dan Smith
Twelve-year-old Karl is a good German boy. He wants his country to win the war - after all, his father has gone away to fight. But when tragedy strikes and his older brother Stefan gets into trouble, he begins to lose his faith in Hitler. Before long, he's caught up in a deadly rebellion.
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry · 138 pages
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis won't stop. The Jews of Denmark are being "relocated," so Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. Then Annemarie is as
Shadow 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.
The Nazi Invasion, 1944
Lauren Tarshis · 90 pages
Snow Treasure
Marie McSwigan · 196 pages
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 Winged Watchman
Hilda van Stockum · 197 pages
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman.
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
After
Morris Gleitzman · 224 pages
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages
Ausländer
Paul Dowswell
"When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Peter is 'volkdeutsche'- of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes he is a perfect Hitler Youth specimen, and Professor Kaltenbach and his wife are thrilled to welcome such a fine Aryan specimen to their household. But Peter is not who they think. He is forming his own ideas. Peter is going to take a risk - the most d
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.
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War 2 Soldier
Walter Dean Myers · 140 pages
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein · 347 pages
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
The Paris Architect
Charles Belfoure · 371 pages
Paris, 1942. The architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-- and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't
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.
The Kommandant's Girl
Pam Jenoff · 400 pages
Based in part on actual events, The Kommandant's Girl is a compelling tale of love and courage in a dangerous and desperate times. Unique in voice and evocative in historical detail, this stunning debut faithfully explores the gray area between right and wrong and the timeless themes of home, stuggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds.Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only thr
HHhH
Laurent Binet · 336 pages
Prague, 1942. Operation Anthropoid: two Czech parachutists are sent on a mission to London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret serviceh. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up?
The Children of Freedom
Marc Levy · 371 pages
Early in 1942, two young brothers join a resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
Twenty and Ten
Claire Huchet Bishop · 76 pages
Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance
Erich Maria Remarque
Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse · 320 pages
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion.