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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESStanley, Jerry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 STAAndrews, Lena S.
Summary: In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ANDSummary: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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Summary: An extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 AMBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 AMBHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMCushman, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSHannigan, 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.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANStone, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOSummary: "The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of World War II cartoon art. More than 90% of the cartoons and comics inside have not been seen since first publication"--Page 4 of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARWhelan, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WhelaHamilton, Nigel
Summary: "Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and under appreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMPolmar, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5302 POLLarson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARLarson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LARSummary: Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CATBuckey, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCIsgro, Bailey Sisoy
Summary: Rosie, a Detroit Herstory is a story for young readers about women workers during World War II. Across America, women produced everything from ships and tanks, to ammunition and uniforms, in spectacular quantities. Their skill, bravery, tenacity, and spirit became a rallying point of American patriotism and aided in defining Detroit as the Arsenal of Democracy. Even though women workers were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 ISGSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRASpector, Ronald H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SPEDobbs, Michael
Summary: Publisher's description: Shortly after America's entry into World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered an extensive sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads. Eight German saboteurs were dispatched across the Atlantic by U-boat, one team landing in Amagansett, Long Island, the other near Jacksonville, Florida. They...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DOBKnox, Debra Johnson
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIE Pub. 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 940.5467 KNOWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: As companion to his PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007