evacuation of civilians

During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.

In the final days of World War II, German civilians were in a panic and Allied forces were closing in from all directions. Berlin planned an evacuation of upwards of 10,000 women, children, and the elderly using the old Wilhelm Gustloff. Setting off into the icy waters of the Baltic Sea, the ship was soon located and fired upon by Soviet Navy submarines. The ship sank quickly and took an estimated 9,400 victims to their deaths. The sinking became one of the least-known human disasters of World War II.

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.

An important addition to any multicultural collection, this title examines the internment of ???enemy aliens??? in the United States and Canada during the Second World War. With particular emphasis on ???yellow peril??? and the plight of Japanese-American and Canadian citizens, the book reveals the events, mindsets, and policies leading up to and following the forced removal of thousands of citizens from their homes into internment camps.

Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's the start of World War II, and America doesn't see it that way. Like many other Japanese Americans, Yuki and his family have been forced into an internment camp in the Utah desert. But Yuki isn't willing to sit back and accept this injustice - it's his country too, and he's going to prove it by enlisting in the army to fight for the Allies.

Evacuated to a remote Yorkshire valley during World War II, a homesick ten-year-old English girl discovers an abandoned baby and befriends a gypsy boy, despite local prejudices.

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.

Focuses on discrimination against Japanese Americans, relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II, and camp conditions.

In 1940 as war rages across Europe, ten-year-old Lindy, waves goodbye to England and makes the long journey to Saskatoon, Canada, along with her mother and her cousin Cameron. They may be far from the war but they are also far from home and everyone they know and love. Life in Canada is very different but it is also full of exciting new adventures.