Carter, Peter.  The Hunted.  Y FIC Carter
In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent

Cormier, Robert.  Heroes : A Novel.  Y FIC Cormier
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find --and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge.   Friends and Enemies.  Y FIC Gaeddert
In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.

Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's Crossing.  Y FIC Giff // Y PB G
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.

Greene, Bette.  Summer of My German Soldier.  Y FIC Greene/Y PB G
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Hahn, Mary Downing.  Following My Own Footsteps.  J FIC Hahn
In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.

Hahn, Mary Downing.  Stepping on the Cracks.  J FIC Hahn
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.

Higginsen, Vy.  Mama, I Want to Sing.  Y FIC Higginsen
In the late 1940s Doris Winters follows her dream to be a singer, rising from church choir member to pop star.

Hotze, Sollace. Summer Endings.  Y FIC Hotze
In the summer of 1945 in Chicago, twelve-year-old Christine anxiously awaits, along with her mother and sister, news of the political activist father they had to leave behind when they emigrated from Poland six years before.

Johnston, Julie.  Hero of Lesser Causes.   Y FIC Johnston
In 1946 twelve-year-old Keely is devastated when her older brother Patrick is paralyzed by polio, and she starts a campaign to reawaken his waning interest in life.

Levitin, Sonia. Annie's Promise.  J FIC Levitin
Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 give twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants.

Lisle, Janet Taylor.  The Art of Keeping Cool.  Y FIC Lisle
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.

Matas, Carol.  After the War.  Y FIC Matas
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

Matas, Carol.  Greater Than Angels.  Y FIC Matas
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.

Napoli, Donna Jo.  Stones in Water.  Y FIC Napoli
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.

Osborne, Mary Pope. My Secret War : the World War II Diary of Madeline Beck. (Dear America) Y Fic Osborne
Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.

Oughton, Jerrie.  The War in Georgia.  Y FIC Oughton
Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields that those in foreign lands.

Platt, Randall Beth.  Honor Bright.  YPB P
While visiting her grandmother during the summer of 1944, a fourteen-year-old girl helps to heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon three generations of women.

Rinaldi, Ann.  Keep Smiling Through.  Y FIC Rinaldi
A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.

Taylor, Mildred D.  The Road to Memphis.  Y FIC Taylor
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

Taylor, Theodore.  The Bomb.  Y FIC Taylor
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

Van Kirk, Eileen.  A Promise to Keep.  Y FIC Van Kirk
While  spending the summer of 1940 on a farm in the English countryside to escape wartime London, fourteen-year-old Ellie falls in love with a handsome Austrian refugee and faces a conflict of loyalties when he reveals that he is sympathetic to the German enemy.

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima.  My Brother, My Sister, and I.   Y FIC Watkins
Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder.

Westall, Robert. The Kingdom By The Sea.  Y FIC Westall
During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety.

Williams, Laura E.  Behind the Bedroom Wall.  Y FIC Williams
Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

Willis, Patricia.  A Place to Claim as Home.  Y FIC Willis
Thirteen-year-old Henry, hired by the strangely unfriendly Miss Morrison to be summer help on her farm in 1943 while most of the men in the area are overseas in the war, discovers that her gruff  hardness conceals hurt over a secret in her past.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6.  YPB W
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

Zindel, Paul. The Gadget. Y FIC Zindel
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.

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