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World War II Stories

List Author: 

Heather Prichard

Staff Position: 

Librarian, Tates Creek Branch

These books shouldn’t be confined to a specific reader age range. They are all powerful stories of individuals in a dangerous, fantastic, deadly, harsh, magical and important time. Fiction and nonfiction selections that will delight, enlighten and incite conversations.

Code name Verity
by Wein, Elizabeth.

Length: 343 p. ;

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    Publisher: Hyperion Books, New York : 2012.
    Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
    by Sheinkin, Steve.

    Length: 266 p. :

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      Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, New York : c2012.
      Ten cents a dance
      by Fletcher, Christine

      Length: 356 p. ;

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        Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, New York : c2008.
        Once
        by Gleitzman, Morris.

        Length: 163 p. ;

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          Publisher: Henry Holt, New York : 2010.
          Then
          by Gleitzman, Morris.

          Length: 198 p. ;

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            Publisher: Henry Holt, New York : 2010, c2008.
            Now
            by Gleitzman, Morris.

            Length: 184 p. ;

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              Publisher: Henry Holt, New York : 2012.
              The history of love
              by Krauss, Nicole.

              Length: 252 p. ;

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                Publisher: Norton, New York : c2005.
                The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
                by Shaffer, Mary Ann.

                Length: 277 p. :

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                  Publisher: The Dial Press, New York, N.Y. : 2008.
                  When the emperor was divine : a novel
                  by Otsuka, Julie

                  Length: 143 p. ;

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                    Publisher: Knopf : New York : c2002.
                    The English patient : a novel
                    by Ondaatje, Michael

                    Length: 307 p. ;

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                      Publisher: Knopf, New York : 1992.
                      Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
                      by Bruchac, Joseph

                      Length: 231 p. ;

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                        Publisher: Dial Books, New York : c2005.
                        The true story of Hansel and Gretel
                        by Murphy, Louise

                        Length: 297, 12 p. ;

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                          Publisher: Penguin Books, New York : c2003.