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Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter. In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed. Gist, Deeanne. A Bride Most Begrudging. Drew O'Connor, still broken-hearted over the loss of his betrothed three years earlier, wins a bride in a game of chance whom he plans to keep as a servant and caretaker of his young niece, but instead finds himself saddled with a woman who is argumentative, cannot cook, claims to be the daughter of an earl--and is totally captivating. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adulteress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin. Hearn, Julie. The Minister’s Daughter. In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions. Morris, Gilbert. The Captive Bride. The Winslow family is involved in the Salem witch trials. Historical Fiction: The Revolutionary War Anderson, M. T. The Pox Party. Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Avi. The Fighting Ground. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead. Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. Edmonds, Walter. Drums Along the Mohawk. Gilbert Martin and his young wife, Lana, struggle to survive along the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Fast, Howard. April Morning. Relates a young man's experiences during the battle of Lexington. Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. The Revolutionary War with its famous Boston Tea Party is described in this historical novel of the revolt in Boston. Lavender, William. Just Jane : a daughter of England caught in the struggle of the American Revolution. Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in South Carolina, in 1776 to find her loyalties divided over the question of American independence. Myers, Anna. The Keeping Room. Left in charge of the family by his father who joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen-year-old Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears he may be betraying his beloved parent. O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop. Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother during the War for Independence, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life in the wilderness. Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March: a Story of the Boston Massacre. Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770. Rue, Nancy N. The battle. While the Revolutionary War wages all around him, twelve-year-old Thomas fights his own internal battles involving anger, frustration, and lack of trust in God. Turner, Ann Warren. Love thy neighbor : the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson. In 1774, Massachusetts, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by Patriots at the start of the American Revolution. Oke, Janette. The distant beacon. While Anne settles into life in Britain, Nicole sets sail for America to manage her uncle's holdings and finds her heart and loyalties tested by the Revolution. Paulsen, Gary. The rifle. A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is forgotten in a farmhouse attic until the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994. Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington : a story of the American Revolution. In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city. Historical Fiction: The Colonial Period Carbone, Elisa. Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607. Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelveyear-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. Calvert, Patricia. Bigger. When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger. Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. Cclassic story of a young Union soldier who must reconcile his conflicting emotions about war after coming under fire for the first time at the battle of Chancellorsville. Crisp, Marty. Private Captain : a story of Gettysburg. In 1863 Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in search of Ben's brother, who is missing from the Union Army. Historical Fiction: The Civil War/Slavery Alphin, Elaine Marie. Ghost soldier. Alexander meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family. Austin, Lynn N. Candle in the darkness. Caroline Fletcher finds her life torn apart by the Civil War, and she risks her own life to fight for what she believes in. Duey, Kathleen. Amelina Carrett : Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863. Amelina faces the Yankees alone, and decides for herself if the war is right or wrong. Beatty, Patricia. Turn homeward, Hannalee. Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends. Durrant, Lynda. My last skirt : the story of Jennie Hodgers, Union soldier. Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Beatty, Patricia. Charley Skedaddle. During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman. Elliott, Laura. Annie, between the states. Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home. Beatty, Patricia. Who comes with cannons? In 1861 twelveyear-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War. Clapp, Patricia. The tamarack tree : a novel of the siege of Vicksburg. An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863. Hansen, Joyce. I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl. Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. Hahn, Mary Downing. Hear the wind blow. With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War. Ernst, Kathleen. Hearts of stone. Orphaned when her father dies fighting for the Union and her mother expires from exhaustion, fifteen-year-old Hannah struggles to find a way for her family to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee. Hansen, Joyce. Out from this place. A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves. Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. Northerners, Southerners, generals, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War. Frazier, Charles. Cold mountain : a novel. A Civil War soldier and a lonely woman embark on parallel journeys of danger and discovery. Fritz, Jean. Make way for Sam Houston. Traces the life of the soldier who led the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico, served as governor and senator, and opposed secession during the Civil War. Gutman, Dan. Abner & me : a baseball card adventure. With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the dead. Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War. Hansen, Joyce. Which way freedom? Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin. In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. During the Civil War, nine-yearold Jethro must run the family farm in southern Illinois almost alone. Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies. A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew. McMullan, Margaret. How I found the Strong : a Civil War story. Frank wishes he could have gone to fight for the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the wind. Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the first Minnesota volunteers. Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. Peck, Richard. The river between us. During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. Poyer, David. Fire on the waters : a novel of the Civil War at sea. Elisha Eaker joins the Navy in the months leading up to the Civil War in order to escape the tyranny of his wealthy father and the threat of an arranged marriage, and is assigned to the U.S.S. Owanee where he meets Lt. Ker Claiborne, a Virginian by birth who is conflicted over his place in the coming conflict. Reeder, Carolyn. Across the lines. Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of gray. At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war. Reeder, Carolyn. Before the creeks ran red. Timothy Donovan's story, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: December 20, 1860April 15, 1861 -- Joseph Schwartz's story, Baltimore, Maryland: April 18-May 15, 1861 -- Gregory Howard's story, Alexandria, Virginia: May 16-Late June, 1861. Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War. Reit, Seymour. Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy. Recounts the story of the Canadian woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army. Rinaldi, Ann. An acquaintence with darkness. When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research. Rinaldi, Ann. The last silk dress. During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets. Rinaldi, Ann. Sarah's ground. In 1861, Sarah Tracy comes to work at Mount Vernon, where she tries to protect the historic site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband. Rinaldi, Ann. Girl in blue. To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C. Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emanicipation Proclamation made them free. Roddy, Lee. Burden of honor. While Gideon struggles to save the family farm and Emily faces charges of spying, their friend Nat attempts to find his mother and sisters even as the Civil War rages in Virginia. Roddy, Lee. Cry of courage. During the Civil War, Gideon wants to break away from the farm where he has grown up. Roddy, Lee. Risking the dream. As thirteen-year-old Gideon eeks work in the Confederate capital, tensions at home are Roddy, Lee. Road to freedom. Three young friends including an orphaned northener, a poor southern farm boy, and a secretly educated slave encounter diverse but intertwining experiences during the Civil War in Virginia in 1862. Roddy, Lee. Uprising at dawn. Gideon, a farm boy living in Virginia during the Civil War, overhears three men plotting a slave rebellion. Gideo overhears slaves plotting an uprising and has to use his friend Nat's help from inside the plantation. Roddy, Lee. Where bugles call. Emily no longer feels welcome at Briarstone plantation, then gets into trouble when she pleads for a beaten slave. Taylor, Mildred D. The land. After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. Historical Fiction: World War I Lasky, Kathryn. A time for courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen. A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note. Levine, Beth Seidel. When Christmas comes again : the World War I diary of Simone Spencer. Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer witchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France. Hemingway, Ernest. A farewell to arms. An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto. Hemingway, Ernest. The sun also rises. Focuses on a "lost generation" of Americans who fought in France during World War I and who expatriated themselves from America after the war. Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. Sixteenyear-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe. Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the nutcracker men. An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front. Morpurgo, Michael. War horse. Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master. Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the western front. Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I. Rostkowski, Margaret I. After the dancing days. A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism. Sedgwick, Marcus. The foreshadowing. Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him. Historical Fiction: The Great Depression Cummings, Priscilla. Saving Grace. When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C. apartment ju st before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of the rest of her family. Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Hunt, Irene. No promises in the wind. A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s. Ingold, Jeanette. Hitch. To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success. Peck, Richard. A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Riding the flume. In 1894, fifteen-yearold Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier. Avi. "Who was that masked man, anyway?” In the early forties when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixthgrader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs. Whitmore, Arvella. The bread winner. When both her parents are unable to find work and pay the bills during the Great Depression, resourceful Sarah Ann Puckett saves the family from the poorhouse by selling her prize-winning homemade bread. Bell, Mary Reeves. The secret of the mezuzah. When Con, an American teenager living in Austria, learns that Vienna is a center of international intrigue, his search for a spy entangles him in a mystery that leads back to the Holocaust. Boyne, John. The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable. Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "OutWith" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For freedom : the story of a French spy. During World War II, a French teenager gains information that the French Resistance needs about the Nazis. Historical Fiction: World War II and the Holocaust Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker : a novel about the Nav ajo Marines of World War Two. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites thatNavajo 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. Davies, Jacqueline. Where the ground meets the sky. During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project. Denenberg, Barry. One eye laughing, the other weeping : the diary 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. Drucker, Malka. Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story. In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Fleischman, Sid. The entertainer and the dybbuk. A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's crossing. 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. suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese. Hughes, Dean. Soldier boys. 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. Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's list. The story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews in World War II Germany. Kerr, M. E. Your eyes in stars : a novel. In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II. Klages, Ellen. The green glass sea. While her father works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her peers. Giff, Patricia Reilly. Willow Run. Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares her feelings and experiences on the homefront during World War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New York to Willow Run, Michigan. Hemingway, Ernest. Across the river and into the trees. The story of the war-ravaged American Colonel Richard Cantwell and his love for a young Italian countess during World War II. Hesse, Karen. Aleutian sparrow. An Aleutian Islander recounts her Knowles, John. A separate peace. Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy. Lawrence, Iain. B for Buster. Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany. Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Mazer, Harry. A boy at war : a novel of Pearl Harbor. 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. McCusker, Paul. Arin's judgment. At the end of World War II, Wade is transported to a war-torn alternate world called Marus, where he finds himself a key figure in a political power struggle and unwittingly helps to bring the Unseen One's judgment on a corrupt people. Newbery, Linda. Sisterland. When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II. Orlev, Uri. The island on Bird Street. 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. Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko. A brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. Parker, Robert B. Edenville Owls. Just after World War II, fourteen-year-old Bobby tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with his feelings for a girl, and discover who is threatening his teacher. Patneaude, David. Thin wood walls. Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice in their Seattle community after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and are eventually torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the U.S. Army to fight in World War II. Peck, Richard. On the wings of heroes. A boy in Illinois remembers the home-front years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war. Pressler, Mirjam. Malka. In 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto. 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. 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. Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. A young Polish orphan, called names for being Jewish, dreams of the day when he too could become a Nazi in shining boots, until the day he witnesses something that changes his mind forever. Thoene, Bodie. A daughter of Zion. Returning to Jerusalem after the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman struggles to rebuild her life while living in fear that members of her community will discover a dark secret about her past. Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey home. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence. girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Historical Fiction: Vietnam Vos, Ida. Anna is still here. Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor. Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen angels. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. Williams, Laura E. Behind the bedroom wall. Thirteen-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. Couloumbis, Audrey. Summer's end. Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers--the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965. Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6. Sixth-grade girls on the local softball teams of two Oregon towns tell of their experiences which illustrate the communities' attempt to reclaim pre-World War II lifestyles. Wulffson, Don L. Soldier X. 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. Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust. Zindel, Paul. The gadget. 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. Zusak, Markus. The book thief. Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German Crist-Evans, Craig. Amaryllis. Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam. Hughes, Dean. Search and destroy. Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam. Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam. A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog. Paterson, Katherine. Park's quest. Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War. Sherlock, Patti. Letters from Wolfie. Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return. White, Ellen Emerson. Where have all the flowers gone? : the diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty. In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-yearold Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at aVeterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. White, Ellen Emerson. The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps. An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.