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At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old…
Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Junior High readers and older. 2015.
Tous les jours, nous voyons les ravages de la guerre à la télévision. Nous voyons, mais nous ne voulons pas…
vraiment savoir. Ces enfants, eux, ont vécu la guerre. Leurs journaux sont bouleversants. Ces "Paroles d'enfants dans la guerre" constituent un témoignage exceptionnel. De l'Allemagne de 1914 à l'Irak de 2004, la douleur et la force qui émanent des journaux sont les mêmes. Dans la violence de la guerre, les enfants sont égaux. Et notre impuissance à empêcher leur souffrance devient, devant ces voix d'enfants qui s'élèvent, un renoncement insupportable. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus. 2006.
During WWI, the battle for the tiny Belgium town of Passchendaele was one of the most significant tests of Canadian…
courage and expertise. General Haig ordered a headlong attack into the heavily fortified German entrenchments, to capture the town and drive toward the coast to destroy German submarine bases. General Currie's Canadian Corps, known as unstoppable 'storm troopers', was called to the front. For junior high and older readers. 2008.
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.
A history of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the years of the Holocaust. When the Nazis…
came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.
Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in 1944.…
So why were twelve-year-old Susan and her sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe? Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered by a group of nuns who risk their lives to protect them. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.
In the summer of 1942, the British admiralty decided to abandon a convoy sent from Iceland to Murmansk. The merchant…
ships attempted to avoid German attacks, but the result was the worst convoy disaster up to that time. For junior and senior high readers. c1976.
April 9, 2007 marks the 90th anniversary of the pivotal World War I battle - one that many historians view…
as the battle that defined Canada as a nation. Canadian soldiers achieved what more experienced soldiers From Britain and France could not - taking the strategic position of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. Includes a bibliography of books and websites, an index, and a glossary. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.
Russell Rabjohn was just eighteen years old when he joined up to fight in the First World War. In his…
three years of soldiering, he experienced the highs and lows of army life, from a carefree leave in Paris to the anguish of seeing friends die around him. Private Rabjohn was also a trained artist, and drew everything he saw, including a captured pilot of a downed German biplane; the horrific Flanders mud; a German observation balloon exploding in midair; and the jubilant mood in the streets of Belgium when the Armistice is finally signed. With no surviving veterans of the First World War, Rabjohn's drawings are an unmatched visual record of a lost time. Grades 4-7. 2017.
On June 6, 1944, a daring and ambitious invasion of Europe changed the course of World War II, eventually leading…
to the surrender of Nazi Germany. During the night, through storms and high seas, the Allied forces swept towards the beaches of Normandy in France. This is the story of the bravery, the heroism, and the sheer dumb luck of the more than 14,000 Canadians who played a crucial role in that incredible event. 2004.
The harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation of…
Hungary during the final years of World War II. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2013.
Growing up apart in a world of bombs, bullets, removals, checkpoints, and curfews, 20 Israeli and Palestinian young people talk…
about how the situation has affected them. The reactions range from traumatized, angry, hateful, and despairing, to hopeful and brave. The wide range of voices shows the connections between warring neighbours despite the distances that separate them. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2004.
Taut and powerful story of a fifteen-year-old Dutch boy burdened with the dangerous task of hiding an English paratrooper under…
the eyes of the Germans. For junior and senior high readers. 1976. Uniform title: Oorlogswinter.
The author recreates her girlhood experiences as a Jewish child in France during World War II. Written as a diary,…
her story takes her from the summer of 1940 when the Nazi invasion forces her family to flee, through a prolonged separation in which she and her sisters live in a home run by Catholic nuns, through the confusion of the Allied invasion, to her family's reunion in Paris. Grades 5-8. 1988.
A collection of reminiscences by Canadian authors about living through the Second World War as children. Each attempts to explain…
the changes and impact that the war brought to them and their families. Writers include Jean Little, Monica Hughes, Budge Wilson, Brian Doyle, and Janet Lunn. Grades 4-7. 1999.
An account of the Japanese occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937. Describes a prolonged orgy of rape,…
torture, and murder that resulted in an estimated 350,000 deaths. Also explores why this massacre has been ignored by many historians. Descriptions of sex and violence. c1997.
In July 1863, one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War -- a battle that claimed 6,000 lives…
and left 42,000 men injured -- was fought at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Through the alternating narratives of nineteen-year-old Lieutenant John Dooley of the Confederacy, and seventeen-year-old Union Corporal Thomas Galway, the events of that battle come to life. Lincoln's famous speech is also discussed. Junior high and older. 1992.
Zlata begins this diary as a young schoolgirl preoccupied with piano lessons, homework, playing tennis, movie stars, friends, and family.…
That changes rapidly as shelling begins. Concern for grades vanishes with her school. Now daily life centers around finding the necessities of life, including a hiding place for the night, and Zlata grows angry as her childhood is stolen. Junior high and older. 1994. Uniform title: Zlatin dnevnik.
The youngest of nine children in a samurai family shares experiences as a seven-year-old girl wandering for weeks in war-torn…
Okinawa in 1945. Her brother was killed beside her. Separated from her sisters, she survived on her own and then with an elderly, disabled couple. The photo of her surrender with a white flag is an unforgettable image of war and childhood. Grades 5-8 and older. 1993.