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3rd Quarter AR Book list
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-Jack London Books:
Suggested AR reading for Holocaust and/or WWII books.
- Holocaust Books
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- WWII books
IMC =
1940s, World War II, & The Holocaust
Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two 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.
Bunin, Sherry. Dear Great American Writers School. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Lee's letters to a correspondence school describe her life in a small Kentucky town during World War II and her growth as a person and as a writer.
Cormier, Robert. Heroes. 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.
Elliott, L.M. Under a War-Torn Sky. After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Gaeddert, LouAnn. Friends and Enemies 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.
Gwaltney, Doris. Homefront For as long as she can remember, Margaret Ann has longed for a room of her own. When her older sister leaves for college, she finally gets her dream until her cousin from England leaves London because of the blitz and moves to America. Not only does she get part of Margaret Ann's room, but her boyfriend too. Then Margaret's brother enlists in the Navy and she has to come to grips with the war in Europe.
Gee, Maurice. The Champion. In 1943 twelve-year-old Rex sees his quiet New Zealand village dramatically changed by the arrival of a black American soldier on leave from the war.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. The classic tale of pilots stationed in Italy during World War II.
Hertenstein, Jane. Beyond Paradise. Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, 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.
Hesse, Karen. Aleutian Sparrow An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower 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.
Kerr, M.E. Slap Your Sides Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
Lurie, April. Dancing on the Streets of Brooklyn In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.
Mazer, Harry. A Boy at War: A Novel 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.
Mazer, Norma Fox. Good Night, Maman. After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
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 that those in foreign lands.
Rylant, Cynthia. I Had Seen Castles. Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever.
Sachs, Marilyn. Lost in America Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.
Salisbury, Graham. Eyes of the Emperor Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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.
Taylor, Theodore. The Bomb. 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.
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Hiroshima/Nagasaki (bombing)
- Making a Difference
3rd Quarter AR Book list
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