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• Nothing Else but Miracles

  Albus, Kate,

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  Living on their own on in Manhattan, 12-year-old Dory Byrne and her brothers discover an abandoned hotel that proves a perfect hideout just when they need it most. 10 & up

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  As the oppression of Jews escalates in the city of Czernowitz, 13-year-old Rieke and her family find themselves forced to do whatever it takes to survive. 14 & up

• Artifice

  Cameron, Sharon, 1970-

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  Master forger Isa de Smit survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis, but soon discovers that frauds can be difficult to spot in both art and people. 12 & up

• This Light Between Us

  a Novel of World War II

  Fukuda, Andrew Xia,

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  Two unlikely pen pals, a Japanese-American boy and a Jewish-French girl, exchange letters tracking their dreams and wrenching encounters with World War II. 13 & up

• They Went Left

  Hesse, Monica,

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  Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life. 14 & up

• Beneath the Wide Silk Sky

  Inouye Huey, Emily,

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  At the height of World War II, a Japanese American girl and her family navigate life on their farm in Washington state. 12 & up

• The Killing Code

  Marney, Ellie,

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  Kit Sutherland, a codebreaker helping the war effort, becomes involved in another kind of fight when she attempts to uncover who is behind the recent murder of several government girls in Washington, D.C. 14 & up

• Under the Java Moon

  Based on a True Story

  Moore, Heather B.,

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  Forced to relocate to a POW camp when Holland declares war on Japan in 1941, Mary Vischer fights to keep her family alive in the overcrowded camp. 14 & up

• Within These Lines

  Morrill, Stephanie,

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  Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi vow to be together, even though interracial marriage is illegal. Their vows are tested when Taichi is sent to Manzanar internment camp. 13 & up

• Wrath Becomes Her

  Polydoros, Aden,

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  A grieving father uses forbidden magic and parts of his teenage Nazi-resister daughter's corpse to build Vera, a golem meant to be a vengeful Nazi killer. As time passes, Vera searches for more than a reason to fight, but a reason to live. 14 & up

• 28 Days

  a Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

  Safier, David, 1966-

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  Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw ghetto to help her family survive, but when she learns that everyone is getting moved to the camps, she joins a group of young people who are planning an uprising. 13 & up

• Traitors Among Us

  a Novel

  Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk,

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  When sisters Krystie and Maria are accused of being Nazi collaborators, they must try to convince their captors of their innocence. 10 & up

• Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken

  Tyndall, Nita,

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  Despite the dangers, Charlie and Geli frequent an underground club to dance to contraband American jazz and swing music, until Hitler's growing power tests how much they are willing to risk. 14 & up

• The Sky We Shared

  Vernick, Shirley Reva,

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  Nellie is a young Oregonian who survived a balloon bombing by the Japanese. Across the ocean, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, and muddles her way through her anger about the war. 11 & up

• Stolen by Night

  Watkins, Steve, 1954-

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  French teen Nicolette must resist and survive when France falls under siege during World War II. 12 & up

• The Hunger Between Us

  Scott, Marina,

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  17-year-old Liza is determined to survive during the Nazi siege of Leningrad—and to save her best friend from a horrible fate.

• Great or Nothing

  McCullough, Joy,

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  A reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery.

• American Wings

  Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  This true story recounts how pioneering Black men and woman battled powerful odds for an equal share of the sky as the U.S. hurtled toward WWII.

• It's My Whole Life

  Charlotte Salomon : An Artist in Hiding During World War II

  Wider, Susan,

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  Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish artist from Berlin, worked feverishly between 1940 and 1942 to produce approximately 1300 autobiographical paintings before she was arrested by Nazis in 1943. Her work has been called a painted parallel to Anne…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Can We Go Back to America?

  Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

  Kamei, Susan H.,

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  This narrative history of Japanese Americans during and after their World War II incarceration weaves together the voices of over 130 individuals, most of them who lived through it as young adults. 12 & up