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WORLD WAR, 1939-1945

Tell no one who your are

Walter Buchignani

Tells the story of Regine Miller, who hid with four Belgium families during the German occupation

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Walls

Hiltgunt Zassenhaus

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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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Behind the secret window

Nelly S Toll

The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lw?ow, Poland, during World War II

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Summer of the War

Gloria Whelan

Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in Europe.

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Tamar

Mal Peet

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the death of her grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance and the climactic events that forev

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On the Wings of Heroes

Richard Peck

A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.

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Hidden On the Mountain

Deborah Durland DeSaix, Karen Gray Ruelle

Relates how Jewish families found a safe haven in a small town in Le Chambon, France, where a community of Protestants, having once been persecuted for their religion, sympathized with their struggle

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Yesterday's Gone

N.J Crisp

The air war as experienced by pilots in Britain's RAF. (Royal Air Force).

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