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(0)Steve Watkins
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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.
2) Great Falls
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Shane's always worshiped his big brother Jeremy. But three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll, and the easy-go-lucky brother Shane knew has been replaced by a surly drunk who carries his loaded 9mm with him everywhere and lives in the basement because he can'�t face life with his wife and twosmall children. When Jeremy shows up after Shane'�s ootball game and offers to take him to the family cabin overnight, Shane goes along--both...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
20241203
Language
English
Description
August 1944, Asta, her younger sister Pieta, and their mother are caught between the invading Soviet Army and the retreating Wehrmacht in East Prussia and are forced to try and survive in the Romincka Forest with winter coming.
5) Sink or swim
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taylor is a rebellious teenager with a habit of sneaking out to hang with his anti-war friends, so in January 1968 his mother drags him off to Saigon where his father is attached to the United States embassy; bored (and still rebellious) Taylor sneaks out of the embassy to watch the Tet celebrations, just as the war erupts all over Vietnam and there he is captured by the North Vietnamese Army and sent North as a prisoner and hostage--and during the...