Stamper, Vesper What the Night Sings: A Novel Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.

Wein, Elizabeth Code Name Verity In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. Historical Fiction

Wilson, Kip WWII & Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World All books on the list are available in print at West Linn War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent Public Library. Some titles are also available in other resistance group. formats. Use this guide for your search!

Wynne-Jones, Tim = Downloadable eBook The Emperor of Any Place When Evan's father dies suddenly, he = Downloadable audiobook finds the book his father had been reading, a diary of a Japanese soldier = CD audiobook stranded on a Pacific Island during World War II. There was also an American soldier stranded there. Blankman, Anne Prisoner of the Night and Fog Yolen, Jane In 1930s , the favorite niece of rising political Mapping the Bones leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely reporter. on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything Boyne, John but each other. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to Zusak, Markus a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a The Book Thief Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, lives behind a wire fence. Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help Bruchac, Joseph sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, Code Talker: A Novel of the Navajo as well as their neighbors. Marines of World War Two Updated 3/2020 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.

Hesse, Monica Sepetys, Ruta Girl in the Blue Coat Salt to the Sea In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a World War II is drawing to a close in 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a East Prussia, and thousands of Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has refugees are on a desperate trek seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a toward freedom. When their paths web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts converge in route to the ship that to solve the mystery and save the missing girl. promises salvation, Joana, Emilia, and Florian find their strength, courage, and trust in one Hughes, Dean another tested with each step closer toward safety. Four-Four-Two When tragedy strikes the Wilhelm Gustloff, they must Forced into an internment camp at the fight for the same thing: survival. start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Savit, Gavriel Allies as a member of the "Four-Four- Anna and the Swallow Man Two," a segregated Japanese American Krakȯw, 1939. Anna Łania is just seven years old when regiment. the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone Iturbe, Antonio until she meets the Swallow Man. He is a skilled The Librarian of Auschwitz deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old And when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is see what he wants them to see. Over the course of chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will smuggled past the guards. dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone Killeen, Matt mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Devil Darling Spy Swallow Man. Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a Sedgewick, Marcus rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment Voyages in the Underworld of could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her Orpheus Black journey through Central Africa reveals the ravages of Harry Black, a conscientious colonialism and exposes darker truths about her own objector, artist, and firefighter allies than Sarah could've ever imagined. battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes Muchamore, Robert in the hospital to news that his The Escape soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of As two British children are being hunted his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the by German agents, British spy Charles distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, Henderson is trying to reach them first, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth but to do it he must depend on the help of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still of a twelve-year-old French orphan. alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into Preus, Margi the city's Underworld. Village of Scoundrels In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, Smith, Sherri L. houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, The Blossom and the Firefly forgers, and others who take great risks Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old to shelter refugees and smuggle them to kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old safety in Switzerland. war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past.