historical fiction

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655
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a
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historical fiction

The Nazi invasion, 1944

During World War II, a young Jewish boy escapes his home in the ghetto after the Nazis invade, and eventually joins a resistance group in the forests of Poland.

Under the broken sky

"When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan"--Provided by publisher.

Stella by starlight

"When the Ku Klux Kla???s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice ... Stella lives in the segregated South--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she ca???t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan has???t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something the???re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stell???s community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes do???t necessarily signify an end."--Publisher's web site.

The nightingale

Map on endpapers.

All the light we cannot see

a novel
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris and is blind by age six. Her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, so she can memorize it and navigate the real streets. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint-Malo on the coast. In Germany, Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, which wins him a place with the Hitler Youth. Werner travels throughout Europe, and finally to Saint-Malo, where his meets Marie Laure.

Facing tragedy on the Titanic

An interactive adventure where the reader determines their fate aboard the doomed RMS Titantic.

90 miles to Havana

Julian's parents, hoping to protect him from the dangers of the turmoil in Cuba, send him to the United States in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, not realizing that life in a Miami refugee camp holds its own perils.

The war that saved my life

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

On a night of a thousand stars

When Paloma and her family travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her father Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma decides to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. But everything changes when she meets Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S., a group whose members are the children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina's "Dirty War." Franco agrees to help Paloma, but as she digs into her father's past, she begins to wonder if the truth will come at much too high a cost.

A land remembered

Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

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