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Art, Modern Brothers and sisters Fiction Cubism Great Britain Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction Impressionism (Art) Realism in art Romanticism in art World War, 1939-1945 Evacuation of civilians Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Evacuation of civilians Great Britain Juvenile fictionSutter, Marcus
Summary: When Nazi planes begin bombing his hometown, Matt must rely on his German shepherd, Chief, to help save his foster sister, Rachel, during an air raid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTAngus, Sam
Summary: Forced to leave London for a new home in the country after their father refuses to join the military during World War II, Wolfie and his brother, Dodo, bond with an orphaned foal that they risk their lives to rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANGBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BRABradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: "As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRAAlbus, Kate
Summary: In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALBStone, Phoebe
Summary: During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOHood, Susan
Summary: In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOBradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
Summary: A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRABradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
Summary: A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BRASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Breach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BREWalliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALSheinkin, Steve
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 623.4 SHEGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. What is she? World War II continues, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BRAWatkins, Steve
Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHUWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOPSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005