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Hidden Child

by Millman, Isaac

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Marooned

The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe

by Kraske, Robert

Marooned on a South Pacific island, Alexander Selkirk survived in complete solitude for more than four years. After his rescue in 1709 he became the real-life ...

Only You Can Save Mankind

by Pratchett, Terry

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Ma...

The Journey That Saved Curious George

The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey

by Borden, Louise

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Hitler Youth

Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the you...

The Search for Belle Prater

by White, Ruth

In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missi...

Runny Babbit

A Billy Sook

by Silverstein, Shel

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Broken Song

by Lasky, Kathryn

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the r...

Becoming Naomi León

by Ryan, Pam Muñoz

When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

So B. It

by Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out w...