1915 - Scotland. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole village. From the horror of the trenches, to the devastating reality seen daily by those nursing the wounded, they struggle to survive. They are luckier than some - all but one return home - but they know that nothing will eve...
Front Lines (Soldier Girl, #1) (The Front Lines, #1)
by Michael Grant
1942. The fate of the world rests on a knife's edge. And the soldiers who can tip the balance...are girls. Set in an alternate World War II where young women are called up to fight alongside men, this is the story of Rio Richlin and her sisters-in arms as they go into battle against Hitler's forces. But not everyone believes that the girls should be on the front lines of war. Now Rio and her friends must fight not only to survive, but to prove their courage and ingenuity to a sceptical world.
#CincoDeMayo 110 (Edicao em Portugues) (Parallel Universe List, #110)
by I D Oro
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
by Deborah Hopkinson
Sibert Honor author, Deborah Hopkinson, illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism er...
This deeply moving story of a child's escape in the dark of night from North Korea to South Korea is based on memories of the author's mother. Just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War, young Soo secretly crosses the 38th parallel, hoping to join her father on the other side. Because it is dangerous for more than one person to cross at a time, her mother waits behind. At every step there seems to be enemy soldiers, but the child remembers her mother's words"Be brave, Soo!"which continues to...
The Fences Between Us - Audio Library Edition (Dear America)
by Kirby Larson
Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
This thrilling compendium features four action-packed stories starring air ace James Bigglesworth. In Biggles Flies North, Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada. In Biggles Sees it Through, at the outbreak of World War II Biggles and his crew struggle to help a Polish scientist prevent his revolutionary aircraft designs from falling into the hands of Biggles's old enemy Major Von Stalhein. In Big...
Build Your Own Spaceships Sticker Book (Build Your Own Sticker Book)
by Simon Tudhope
Young space fans can create their own amazing spaceships in this skyrocketing sticker book. 10 full pages of stickers, including laser guns, rocket boosters, viewing ports and more will keep children entertained for hours. Includes spaceships inspired by famous science fiction stories, as well as actual spaceships and satellites that exist today.
Meet Misfits, Inc. Investigations: Peter, the genius; Jake, the athlete; Byte, the computer whiz; Mattie, the "magician." These four teenage super-sleuths have a knack for uncovering and solving unsolvable crimes. In their fifth case, the young detectives find themselves in the middle of a thirty-year-old mystery surrounding a bombing at a 1970s anti-war protest and an elaborate FBI cover-up. Can they set the record straight before it's too late? Trying to uncover the truth behind events that...
Footprints at the Window (Greenwillow Read-Alone, #3)
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Beset by an enemy from within, Dan searches for the gypsies he once knew in York and is led inexplicably into a calamity involving the Black Death in a hostile country among frightened and superstitious people.
Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they? Peter van Pels and his family are locked away with the Franks too, and Peter sees it all differently. What is it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, to hate her and then find yourself falling in love with her? To know you're being written about in her diary, day after day? What's it like to sit and wait and watch whilst others die, and you wish you were fighting? Anne's diary ends on August 4 1944,...
As the Revolutionary War progresses, eleven-year-old Teddy, upset by the conflicts between his Patriot father and Loyalist mother, mistakenly joins the wrong unit of his local Williamsburg, Virginia, regiment and, as a member of the fife and drum corps, marches to South Carolina to participate in the Battle of Camden in August 1780.
Summary, A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on crutches and together they find hope for the future.