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Victory in the Pacific
Nonfiction story of WWII’s Pacific Theater.
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Journey to Topaz
Based on Yoshiko Uchida’s personal experiences, this is the moving story of one girl’s struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II. In a bleak and dusty prison camp, eleven-year-old Yuki and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. Journey to Topaz explores the consequences of prejudice and the capacities of the human spirit. First published in 1971, this book is now a much loved and widely read classic.
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Farewell to Manzanar
“…based on a true story of one Japanese American family’s attempt to survive forced detention, and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.”
paperback 208 pp
used in Sonlight 100 9th grade$4.00$9.99Farewell to Manzanar
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Great Battles of World War II: Military Encounters that Defined the Future
This fascinating book provides an accessible introduction to twenty-eight of the most important actions of World War II, including Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, El Alamein, the siege of Leningrad, Kursk, Monte Cassino, the D-Day landings, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, the Battle for Berlin, and many, many more. Each battle entry includes a fact box and location map, together with a historical overview, details of the war campaign, and battle tactics used by those involved. There is also a full color 2D illustration of the battle from a birds eye view, showing the terrain that the battle took place in, the geographic difficulties faced, and how the each of the armies maneuvered into attack positions.
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The Usborne Introduction to the Second World War – Internet Linked
Thought Provoking!!! This book is stunningly illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs and useful maps. It’s also linked to the internet in which a selection of websites are featured throughtout the book.
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Don’t You Know There’s A War On?
Like every student in Miss Gossim’s 1943 fifth-grade class, Howie Crispers has one thing on his mind: World War II. When he isn’t in school, Howie stays busy watching for Nazi spies. So when he notices his principal acting suspiciously, it’s his patriotic duty to investigate. But what he discovers is far more devastating than any headline at the newsstand.
***A novel by Avi$2.25$3.99Don’t You Know There’s A War On?
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Briar Rose
Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories of Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma’s astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose.
Yolen’s graceful retelling of the German folktale of “Briar Rose”―known to some as “Sleeping Beauty”―sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Yolen confronts the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust with lyrical prose and rich characterizations that tell a tale of good and evil, hope and despair.$2.50$6.99Briar Rose
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Happy Birthday, Molly! Book 4
Molly is excited to learn that an English girl is coming to stay at the McIntires’–just in time for Molly’s birthday! But Emily turns out to be different from the glamorous girl Molly pictured. Emily is shy and standoffish. Then Molly discovers she and Emily have some important things in common. The girls become fast friends and decide to celebrate Molly’s birthday with an English tea party. But they can’t agree on how to do it, and it takes a special birthday surprise to help them patch up their hurt feelings.
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Pearl Harbor
A Ready to Read book. Level 3, read alone. A look at a historically important event, Pearl Harbor, in simple yet clear language.
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The Little Riders
by Margaretha Shemin
“Take care of the little riders,” says Johanna’s father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She would do anything to protect them, anything. And on night she risks her life to prove it.
Paperback cover has a couple of label stickers on the front.$1.99$5.99The Little Riders
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Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
Just 75 years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. Here, readers will be introduced to people like Mine Okubo, a Japanese American artist who spent years in the camps as a young woman and later depicted their nightmarish conditions in her work. They’ll also meet Daniel Inouye, a Japanese American soldier who earned a Purple Heart for his service to America in the war-only to be refused a haircut in San Francisco upon his return.
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