WORLD WAR II

Historical Fiction

	Bauer, Marion Dane. Rain of Fire When Steve's older brother Matthew, returning home after service in World War II, refuses to talk about his wartime experiences, Steve's friends begin to doubt the stories he has told of Matthew's heroism.
	Beach, Edward Latimer. Dust on the Sea A blend of action, adventure and personal agonies of men in wartime, this novel tells of a perilous undersea submarine patrol in the Yellow Sea as the War in the Pacific rages.
	Beach, Edward Latimer. Run Silent, Run Deep Written by a U.S. Navy Commander who saw duty aboard three submarines during World War II, this best-selling novel is rich in tactics and action and was made into a motion picture.
	Bennet, Cherie & Gottesfeld, Jeff. Anne Frank and Me After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
	Bloch, Harie Halun. Displaced Person Fourteen-year-old Stefan, a Ukrainian refugee, struggles to survive as a displaced person in Nazi Germany during the final days of World War II.
	Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
	Booth, Martin. War Dog: a Novel After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet is requisitioned by the British Army and sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searching for survivors of Germany's bombing raids on English cities, and in Italy at the end of the war.
	Boulle, Pierre. The Bridge Over the River Kwai The story of Colonel Nicholson whose passion for duty led him to perform an almost impossible feat of military genius for the Japanese Army he hated.
	Bunting, Eve. Spying on Miss Muller At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.
	Chang, Margaret Scrogin. In the Eye of the War During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.
	Childress, Mark. V for Victor Sixteen-year old Victor--stuck in Alabama and dreaming of glory--experiences a dramatic coming-of-age as he is hurled into battle against the Nazis in his defense of the Southern coast against enemy invasion.
	De John, Meindert. The House of Sixty Fathers Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
	Denenberg, Barry. One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: theDiary of Julie Weiss During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
	Forman, James D. Horses of Anger In the closing days of World War II a fifteen-year-old German soldier begins to question the Nazi philosophy as he sees more and more discrepancies between the facts he knows and official statements.
	Fox, Robert. To Be a Warrior Clay Walker, a young Navajo boy, becomes a “code talker” for the Marine Corps in World War II.
	Gallico, Paul. The Snow Goose Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
	Garrigue, Sheila. All the Children Were Sent Away: a Novel An eight-year-old British girl experiences loneliness and fear when she and many other children are evacuated to Canada during World War II.
	Hartling, Peter. Crutches A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on crutches and together they find hope for the future.
	Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 Satirical novel centers on Captain John Yossarian, stationed at an airstrip on a Mediterranean island in World War II and portrays his desperate attempts to stay alive.
	Hersey, John. A Bell for Adano An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.
	Hertenstein, Jane. Beyond Paradise Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Ohio to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.
	Hughes, Shirley. The Lion and the Unicorn Lenny, a Jewish boy living in London during the Blitz in World War II, must adjust to many changes and find the true meaning of courage when he is evacuated to a large mansion in the English countryside.
	MacLean, Alistair. The Guns of Navarone An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed but now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.
	MacLean, Alistair. Where Eagles Dare Eight Allied agents parachute onto a mountainside behind enemy lines in wartime Germany -- their mission: to rescue an American general before the Nazis force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
	Maguire, Gregory. The Good Liar Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.
	Marvin, Isabel R. Bridge to Freedom As World War II winds down, a fifteen-year-old deserter from the German army reluctantly joins forces with a Jewish girl and tries to cross the border to safety in Belgium.
	Matas, Carol. Greater than Angels Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of LeChambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
	Matas, Carol. In My Enemy’s House When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
	Moskin, Marietta. I am Rosemarie A Jewish girl from the Netherlands manages to live through the horrors that befall her family following the Nazi occupation in 1940. (PB)
	Myers, Walter Dean. The Journal of Scott Pendelton Collins: a World War II Soldier A seventeen-year-old soldier from Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
	Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
	Oughton, Jerrie. The War in Georgia Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields than those in foreign lands.
	Paton Walsh, Jill. Fireweed Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from London struggle to survive the blitz of 1940.
	Paulsen, Gary. The Cookcamp During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
	Pearson, Kit. The Lights Go On Again Living in Canada as a "war guest," ten-year-old Gavin is unwilling to leave his Canadian family and go back to his parents and England.
	Propp, Vera W. When the Soldiers Were Gone After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding.
	Radin, Ruth Yaffe. Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.
	Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-Red Sun Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
	Schmidt, Gary. Mara’s Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the women and children who listen.
	Southall, Ivan. The Long Night Watch During World War II, a sixteen-year-old patrols a deserted South Pacific island each night as he and other members of an Australian religious cult await the fiery end of the Earth and their deliverance.
	Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed
	Szambelan - Strevinsky, Christine. Dark Hour of Noon A young Polish girl becomes involved with anti-German underground activities during World War II.
	Taylor, Marilyn. Faraway Home Karl and his sister Rosa escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Northern Ireland, where they must adapt to a very different way of life at a camp for Jewish refugees.
	Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz: a Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an alien’s camp in Utah.
	Vos, Ida. The Key is Lost When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another.
	Walters, Eric. War of the Eagles War War II tests the resolve of a Canadian Tsimshian Indian boy because his best friend is Japanese.
	Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
	Watts, Irene. Remember Me
	Westall, Robert. Fathom Five A teenage boy and his friends spend the spring of 1943 trying to discover who in Garmouth, a sleepy English seaport, is passing information to the Germans.
	Westheimer, David. Von Ryan’s Express The author drew heavily from his own experience in reconstructing the remarkably authentic German prison camp, the setting of a daring mass-escape.
	Williams, Eric. The Tunnel Parachuting into a forest under the cover of night, Peter Howard and his crew must act and evade the German soldiers or be taken prisoners.
	Winter, Kathryn. Katarina During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as the war ends.
	Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny: a novel of War War II Based on the author’s experience aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific during World War II, this novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
	Wulffson, Don. Soldier In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.