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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJourney to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation
Yoshiko Uchida, Yushiko Uchida · 149 pages
Amazing book! Yuki a Japanese little girl who has an amazing life until one day Yuki and other California Japanese Americans get sent to internment camps
Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Sandra Dallas · 237 pages
"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"--
Sylvia & Aki
Winifred Conkling · 151 pages
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata · 260 pages
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Journey to America
Sonia Levitin · 185 pages
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
Summer of my German Soldier
Bette Greene · 230 pages
When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And
A Faraway Island
Annika Thor · 247 pages
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
A Diamond in the Desert
Kathryn Fitzmaurice · 258 pages
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
The Journal of Ben Uchida
Barry Denenberg · 157 pages
When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park · 199 pages
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Romeo Blue
Phoebe Stone · 346 pages
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives. During World War II, Felicity lives in Bottlebay, Maine, with her relatives and their foste
Shadows on the Sea
Joan Hiatt Harlow · 256 pages
My Family for the War
Anne C. Voorhoeve · 409 pages
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
Lily's Crossing
Patricia Reilly Giff · 200 pages
This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family's cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime factory town, and worse, much worse, Lily's father is on his way overseas to the war.There's no one else Lily's
The Light in the Cellar: A Molly Mystery
Sarah Masters Buckey · 169 pages
While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
The Winter Horses
Philip Kerr
Kalinka is in danger. She is alone on the frigid, snowy Ukrainian steppe. She is pursued by the Nazis. Tracked like prey. The cold is strangling her, and the hunger won't go away. No food, no warmth, no help. Except for a loyal dog and two remarkable horses she is trying to save, against all odds. Her only allies. Are they enough? - Author Philip Kerr
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Megan Shepherd
Odette's Secrets
Maryann Macdonald
When Odette Meyer's father is sent to a Nazi work camp, her mother sends Odette from Paris to the French countryside where she must pretend to be a Catholic peasant to remain safe, while secrets burn within her.
Echo
Pam Munoz Ryan · 587 pages
Otto se pierde en un bosque prohibido cuando de repente se encuentra con tres misteriosas hermanas. En ese momento, su destino quedará ligado a una insólita búsqueda que entraña una profecía, una promesa y una armónica. Décadas más tarde, las vidas de Friedrich en Alemania, Mike en Pennsylvania, e Ivy en California, se conectan entre sí cuando la misma armónica llega a ellos. Estos niños se enfren
Hitler's Daughter
Jackie French · 136 pages
The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And If you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago still matter?
Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy · 227 pages
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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.
A Medal for Leroy
Michael Morpurgo · 222 pages
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race. When Michael’s great-aunt dies, she leaves a letter divulging family secrets and history, including that Michael's grandfather, a World War I hero, was denied honors due to his