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Albus, Kate

Summary: "When 12-year-old Dory Byrne's pop left New York City's Lower East Side to fight Hitler, he promised her and her brothers that they'd be safe. Like he always said, "the neighborhood will give you what you need." There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seafood stew at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2023

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALB

Nelson, Theresa

Summary: In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015

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VanderLugt, Dana

Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC VAN

VanderLugt, Dana

Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023

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

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Gratz, Alan

Summary: "December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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

Ellison, Joy Michael

Summary: In 1969, when thirteen-year-old transgender runaway Flor and her new trans friend Tami try to make their way into the queer and trans community of New York City, they find themselves at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023

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

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Summary: Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Kelly 2020

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018

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

Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)

Summary: In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014

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

Dagg, Carole Estby.

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Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016

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

Wolk, Lauren

Summary: "Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Pess, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Wolk, Lauren

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WOL

Sepahban, Lois.

Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEP

Fitzgerald, Laura Marx

Summary: In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016

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

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