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A night divided
by Jennifer A Nielsen
When her family is abruptly divided by the rise of the Berlin Wall, 12-year-old Gerta harbors forbidden thoughts about freedom and reuniting with her loved ones before a coded message from her father inspires a daring plan. By the best-selling author of the Ascendance Trilogy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Code name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
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 do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany
by Steve Sheinkin
Told in tandem, these gripping true stories follow Rudolph, who escaped Auschwitz, becoming the first survivors to expose Nazi concentration camps to the world, and Gerta, his high school friend who began to cave under pressure from German Nazis in Hungary. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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They called us enemy
by George Takei
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future
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Between shades of gray
by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers
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Projekt 1065
by Alan Gratz
Living with his family in Berlin, Michael O'Shaunessey, the son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, works as a spy like his parents and participates in the horrific activities of the Hitler Youth in order to gain inside information for the British Secret Service. By the award-winning author of Samurai Shortstop. Simultaneous eBook.
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors
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Trajectory
by Cambria Gordon
"As WWII rages overseas, 17-year-old Eleanor, a once-in-a-generation math whiz, is recruited by the U.S. Army and tasked with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that could secure the world's freedom, but before she can do that, she must unlock an even bigger mystery: herself. Simultaneous eBook."
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Lost in the Pacific, 1942 : not a drop to drink
by Tod Olson
Documents the harrowing true story of a band of World War II soldiers whose plane crashed in the middle of the Pacific, forcing them to rely on each other for weeks to survive without supplies in the face of sharks, extreme heat, dehydration and starvation. Simultaneous eBook.
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White Rose
by Kip Wilson
A timely novel based on true events finds Sophie Scholl, a young German college student, teaming up with her brother and his fellow soldiers to form a group that writes and distributes anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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