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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWaiting 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.
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.
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.
Soldier Boys
Dean Hughes, Kim McGillivray · 196 pages
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Blooms of Darkness
Aharon Appelfeld · 288 pages
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer ("One of the greatest writers of the age"--The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana i
Refugee
Alan Gratz · 352 pages
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw · 197 pages
Jan Terlouw's award-winning novel tells the story of a German-occupied village in Holland living through the Bleakest winter of World War II. Food is scarce: starving refugees wander the countryside: able-bodied young men are sent to labor camps in Germany. Fifteen-year-old Michiel Van Beusekom finds himself burdened with the dangerous task of hiding a wounded English paratrooper under the very e
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 544 pages
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are t
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Italo Calvino · 185 pages
"Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisan
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard · 351 pages
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences as a boy in Shanghai, China, during the Second World War, and in Lunghua C.A.C. (Civilian Assembly Centre), where he was interned from 1942 to 1945.
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli · 232 pages
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 566 pages
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling story about the ability of books to feed the soul is now a major motion picture. This enhanced ebook edition is perfect for new fans and collectors alike. It includes: · An exclusive video welcome to the enhanced edition from Markus Zusak. · The official movie trailer for The Book Thief. · Videos featurettes introducing Sophie Nélisse (Leisel Mem
Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk · 291 pages
Even Annabelle's small Pennsylvania town has been touched by the two world wars that ravaged the world, but day to day life there has been quiet until the day a new student, Betty Glengarry, comes to her school. Betty is cruel and delights in bullying the vulnerable people around her — including reclusive World War I veteran Toby. Annabelle knows that Toby is kind, but the other people in town see
Once
Morris Gleitzman · 156 pages
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once. Once I escaped from am orphanage to find Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Onc
The Puppet Boy Of Warsaw
Eva Weaver · 330 pages
I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us ... Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a fool, a crocodile with half-painted teeth ... When
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne · 240 pages
La atrocidad bajo la ingenua mirada de un niño.
The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen · 170 pages
Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage a
Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky · 426 pages
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irène Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands bourgeois dé
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.
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.
The Fighting Ground
Avi · 157 pages
(From HarperCollins (publisher) website): Jonathan may be only thirteen years old, but with the Revolutionary War unfolding around him, he's more certain than ever that he wants to be a part of it--to fight for independence alongside his brother and cousin to defeat the British. But Jonathan's father, himself wounded from battle, refuses to let his son join the front lines. When Jonathan he
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.