Living History Chapter Books

• Bergman, Tamar. Along the Tracks.
  A young Jewish boy is driven from his home by the German invasion, becoming a refugee.
   

• Bishop, Claire H. Twenty and Ten.
  Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II>
   
• Degens, T. Transport 7-41-R.
  A girl describes her journey as a refugee from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne.
   
• DeJohn, Meindert. House of Sixty Fathers.
  During the early days of the Japanese invasion, a Chinese boy searches for his parents.
   
• Garrigue, Sheila. The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito.
  An old Japanese-Canadian gardener resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after Pearl Harbor.
   
• Haugaard, Erik C. The Little Fishes.
  An orphaned beggar in occupied Italy strugges to survive.
   
• Heneghan, James. Wish Me Luck.
  Based on the true story of the sinking of a passenger liner by a German U-boat during World War II.
   
• Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
  During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
   
• Orlev, Uri. Lydia, Queen of Palestine.
  A Romanian Jewish girl struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war.
   
• Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-Red Sun.
  Tomikazu's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a bully, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
   
• Tsuchiya, Yukio. Faithful Elephants.
  Three elephants in a Tokyo zoo must be put to death despite the pain of the elephants and their keepers.
   
• Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic.
  Time travel places Hannah in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
   
• Non-Fiction and Biography
  Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers.
  The American military and Navajo Indians create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
   
• Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
  Stricken with leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races to fold a thousand paper cranes in hopes of health.
   
• Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.
  The classic true story of a Jewish girl hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
   
• Greenfeld, Howard. The Hidden Children.
  The experiences of Jewish children who were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust to survive.
   
• Leitner, Isabella. The Big Lie.
  The author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
   
• Mochizuki, Ken. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
  A Japanese diplomat in 1940 Lithuania uses his powers to assist Jews to escape the Holocaust.
   
• Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room.
  For over two years Sinni and Anni hide from the Germans in the Oostervelds' upstairs room.
   
• Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War II.
  The author and her mother are hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland.
   

Compiled by Sarah S. Wright for MCPL Children's Services (5/99). http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/booklists/wwiibib.html