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The invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his bigges

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The pull of the ocean

Y Maudet, Jean-Claude Mourlevat

Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise

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Pastor Andr?e Trocm?e

Allison Stark Draper

Depicts the efforts of one village in France, under the spiritual guidance of Andr?e Trocm?e, to protect thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II.

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Touch wood

Ren?ee Roth-Hano

In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Ren?ee, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Ren?ee and her sister e

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Hiding Edith

Kathy Kacer

Describes the wartime experiences of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl who was sent to live in the French town of Moissac after the Nazi invasion.

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Zazoo

Richard Mosher

Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

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"vive La France"

Robert Green

Describes life in Nazi-occupied France, and looks at the activities of the French resistance movement.

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Under a War-torn Sky

Laura Elliott

After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of

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Twenty and Ten

Claire H Bishop

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.

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Triumph and Terror

Steven Otfinoski

Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the revolution that began in 1789 with the overthrow of the monarchy and ended ten years later with the rise of the Napoleonic dictatorship.

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