german americans

In 1930s Newark, NJ, best friends Tommy and Benny are torn apart when Tommy attends a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, and Benjy forms an anti-Nazi vigilante group.

"Albert Einstein rewrote the rules of physics and changed how scientists see space and time forever. Learn how a boy who had trouble in school became one of history's most renowned scientists"--Provided by publisher.

Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.

Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.

The author offers a graphic memoir illustrating what she found when she left America as an adult to investigate her family's past in Nazi Germany. Draws on archives, research, and interviews with family members to explore the historical and personal forces that shaped her life across continents and generations.

In 1939 Hangerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.

It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive.

Clare's world is turned upside down when she finds a box full of her great-grandmother's letters from Germany to her grandmother, Annelise, who left for America during World War II. When she discovers the realities of her family's sacrifice, she's faced with an impossible choice.

A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania.

"Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents"--OCLC.