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Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"-- Provided by the publisher.
2) The cookcamp
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war. Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance of getting...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party. Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Molly is determined that the third-grade girls will win her school's Lend-a-Hand Contest to help the war effort. Instead, they choose an idea that Molly knows will never work out. So she talks two friends into planning their own project and keeping it a secret from the rest of the girls in the class.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
9) Cape
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Soon after being recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Boudica to join a secret military intelligence operation, Josie, Mae, and Akiko discover their superhero abilities and use them to thwart a Nazi plot to steal the ENIAC computer.
10) Lily's crossing
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
13) The war outside
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
1944. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. At the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment...
14) Mask
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.-- Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention and couldn't be more of a pain if she tried. It's a time of sunshine, siblings, and stress. Will Millie be able to find her way in her family,...
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war, Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend....
17) Duke
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
In 1944 Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened and determined to get his dog back.
20) Island of spies
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Stick Lawson and her two best friends, Rain and Neb, set out to discover the Nazi spies they believe are helping orchestrate U-boat attacks on American ships off the coast of Hatteras Island.
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