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Lasky, Kathryn.

Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAS

Keenan, Sheila

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013

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Wallmark, Laurie

Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAL

Poe, Mayumi Shimose

Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Millner, Denene

Summary: When Sarah's hair falls out, her search for the right products leads her to invent something better than what she's used before and inspires her start her own business.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIL

Follett, Ken.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Follett

Walsh, Jenni L.

Summary: Determined to escape poverty, Bonnelyn Parker secretly takes a night job in a 1927 speakeasy while maintaining her wholesome-girl identity by day, an endeavor that introduces her to convicted felon Clyde Barrow, who entices her to become his partner in crime. Summer, 1927. Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint. She plans to overcome...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Sands, Kevin

Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAN

Giff, Patricia Reilly

Summary: "In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on train to take her to boat back New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Hollows, M. J.

Summary: "Her past could kill you. Guernsey, 1940. As war storms through Europe, Churchill orders the evacuation of all military personnel from the island. Boats ferry soldiers and vulnerable young children to England, leaving their parents and loved ones behind to face the invading German army on their own. Her love could save you. One of the few remaining policemen on the island, Jack must protect not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hollows 2021

Avi

Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AVI

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVI

Escobar, Mario

Summary: "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Escobar 2021

Berne, Emma Carlson

Summary: When her friend Leah's grandfather has a rare and valuable orchid stolen and her own grandfather ends up as a suspect, Melody enlists the help of her cousin Val, and Leah herself, in finding the real thief.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BER

Jackson, Linda Williams

Summary: In 1967, when his teacher loans him a copy of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown is amazed to encounter a family worse off than his own and wonders if happy endings only come in books.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAC

Doherty, P. C.

Summary: It's 1095 and crusading fervor has swept Europe. Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St. Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh's younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France, with a plan to join Count Raymond of Toulouse's army, and march across the known world to Jerusalem.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOH

Frost, Helen

Summary: In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

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Remarque, Erich Maria

Summary: Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. The touching story of four young German boys and their army life during World War I.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1958

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Paul, Gill

Summary: A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries. Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance and their lives in danger. 2016 Kitty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P PAU

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUS

Russell, Sheldon

Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Reiss, Kathryn

Summary: Visiting a ranch and commune in California Gold Rush country, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure and she endeavors to find it before trouble shows up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REI

Sundaresan, Indu.

Summary: When clever and ambitious Mehrunnisa boosts her status from twentieth wife in Emperor Jahangir's harem to Empress, she must contend with the greed, love, power and bitter rivalries that go along with it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUN

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