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Families Juvenile fiction Family life Fiction Germany Identity Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Juvenile fiction United States World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States Juvenile fiction Young adult fictionStone, 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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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLHannigan, Kate
Summary: 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.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANLarson, Kirby.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARCushman, Karen
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSGordon, Cambria
Summary: As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORLarson, Kirby.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LARWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WhelaKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCTripp, Valerie
Summary: Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1986
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Summary: During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HARTripp, Valerie
Summary: Molly befriends a war refugee from England named Emily Bennett, who struggles to overcome shyness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TRIWolff, Virginia Euwer.
Summary: In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WOLAvi
Summary: In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIFSepahban, 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 SEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEPPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUChee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021