Code | Book |
YP | - Benary-Isbert, Margot. The Ark.* 1953.
- In the aftermath of World War II, the Lechow family moves to Germany's Western Zone and finds a new home in an old railroad car.
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Y | - Case, Diane. 92 Queens Road. 1991.
- Kathy recalls her sixth year, when she first learned what it meant to be classified as "Coloured" in the Apartheid system of South Africa.
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Y | - Chang, Margaret. In the Eye of War. 1990.
- During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.
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+ | - Cheney, Cora. The Treasures of Lin Li-Ti. 1969.
- A young boy struggles to survive after being separated from his family during the evacuation from mainland Communist China to the Nationalist island of Formosa in 1949.
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Y | - Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes. 1991.
- Sookan's family survives the Japanese occupation of North Korea during the 1942, but when the Japanese are replaced by Russian Communists, the family's only hope seems to be escape to South Korea.
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YP | - Haugaard, Erik Christian. The Little Fishes. 1967.
- Three Italian war-orphans travel from Naples to Cassino in 1943, searching for food and a place to live.
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YP | - Lutzeier, Elizabeth. The Wall. 1992.
- After her mother is killed trying to escape across the Berlin Wall in 1989, Hannah and her father join the demonstrations against the East German government.
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J | - Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. 1989.
- Ten-year-old Annemarie and her family become part of the Danish Resistance when they shelter Ellen, Annemarie's Jewish friend, from the Nazis.
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E MAR | - Marx, Trish. Hanna's Cold Winter. 1993.
- Tibor tells how the people of Budapest kept the zoo's hippos from starving one cold winter during World War II.
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+ | - McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure. 1942.
- A group of children help smuggle gold out of Norway during the Nazi occupation in an exciting story based on fact.
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+ | - Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. The Lily Cupboard. 1992.
- During the German occupation of Holland, Miriam is hidden with non-Jewish people living in the country.
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Y | - Orlev, Uri. Lydia, Queen of Palestine. 1993.
- Lydia, a self-proclaimed "terror," survives her parents' divorce, the chaos of World War II, and relocation from Romania to a kibbutz in Palestine.
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YP | - Paton Walsh, Jill. The Dolphin Crossing. 1967.
- Two boys and their boat Dolphin assist in the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk during World War II.
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Y | - Reuter, Bjarne B. The Boys from St. Petri. 1994.
- In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
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+ | - Say, Allen. The Bicycle Man. 1982.
- Two American soldiers do amazing bicycle tricks for an audience of Japanese schoolchildren in Allied-occupied Japan.
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+ | - Wartski, Maureen Crane. A Boat to Nowhere. 1980.
- An old man and three children become boat people, attempting to escape from Vietnam to Thailand in the 1970s.
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YP | - Westall, Robert. The Machine Gunners. 1976.
- After a German fighter plane is shot down, a group of English children find a machine gun still intact and decide to hide it from the authorities.
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