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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer, orphaned when his parents both commit suicide on the same day, goes to live with his aunt and uncle in Nova Scotia in 1941 and falls in love with Tilda, his cousin by adoption, but things go tragically wrong when Tilda brings home German student Hans Mohring, a young man viewed with suspicion by everyone in town.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to an end, Russian soldiers occupy Schwarz, Germany, bringing both friendships and hardship to the family of ten-year-old Fritz, whose grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer, and after they are forced to leave their farm, Fritz's mother and hired hand are arrested, leaving Fritz to fend for himself.
4) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nick's father and others are taken prisoner when his plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, leaving Nick and his friend Mya to risk their lives in order to free them from the POW camp.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Weedflower
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona during World War II, 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.
9) Enigma
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Tom Jericho has been called out of retirement to join in a race to crack the Nazi's secret code, Enigma, in order to save Allied troops from a deadly German attack.
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