A wealthy family in Berlin adopts an orphaned girl, Lore, who instantly becomes an older sister to their biological daughter, Caroline. In 1939, Caroline and Lore, who are now young women, flee to Switzerland when their parents disappear.

In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.

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.

Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.

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.

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.

Presents a brief story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II through the eyes of a young boy whose dreams to fly like the wind came true when he became part of 332nd Fighter Group in 1942.

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.

A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi-occupied France, worked as a spy for the French Resistance while training to be an opera singer.

In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II.