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Siege: how General Washington kicked the British out of Boston and launched a revolution
Par Roxane Orgill. 2018
A novel in verse. Story of the siege of Boston that launched the war to defeat the British. Follows the…
events from the summer of 1775 to the spring of 1776, and gives voice to the soldiers and civilians of that time. For grades 6-9. 2018Jazz owls: a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Par Margarita Engle, Rudy Gutierrez. 2018
A novel in verse. In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then…
jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot-suit wearing younger brother, Ray. But one night, racial violence leads to murder. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2018White Rose
Par Kip Wilson. 2019
A novel in verse. Sophie Scholl, a young German college student, challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as…
part of the White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2019It rained warm bread: Moishe Moskowitz's story of hope
Par Hope Anita Smith, Lea Lyon, Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet. 2019
A novel in verse and fictionalized account of the experiences of a Polish Jew, Moishe, who, with his parents, brother,…
and a sister, struggles to survive the Nazi invasion and the Holocaust. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2019All the broken pieces: a novel in verse
Par Ann E. Burg. 2009
Matt Pin was nine when he was airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975 and adopted by an American couple. Two…
years later Matt is still haunted by a terrible secret from his war-torn past, one that his new parents and Vietnam veterans help him confront. For grades 5-8. 2009T4: a novel in verse
Par Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9Lifeboat 12: based on a true story
Par Susan Hood. 2018
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the…
ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. For grades 4-7Death coming Up the Hill
Par Chris Crowe. 2020
Ashe Douglas keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the…
escalating war in Vietnam; assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend; his parents' sepration' and a longed-for sister. UnratedFallen angels
Par Walter Dean Myers. 1988
Ritchie Perry, a black youth from Harlem, enlists in the army. He is sent to Vietnam where he struggles to…
survive racist officers, pitched battles, guerrilla raids, and multiple wounds. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 1988Mutiny!
Par Brad Strickland. 2002
In 1687 eleven-year-old Irish orphan Davy sails to Jamaica to live with his uncle, Dr. "Patch" Shea. They join a…
British frigate where Patch and his friend Lieutenant William Hunter help stage an aborted mutiny. Fleeing, the mutineers commandeer a sloop and masquerade as pirates. Precedes Guns of Tortuga (BR 15069). For grades 4-7. 2002A boy at war: a novel of Pearl Harbor
Par Harry Mazer. 2001
December 7, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Adam lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his father is stationed on a battleship. Adam and two…
of his classmates are fishing in a rowboat when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Although wounded, Adam is conscripted to help the survivors. For grades 6-9. 2001The butter battle book
Par Dr Seuss. 1984
A fable about the Yooks and the Zooks, hostile neighbours very much alike except that they butter their bread differently.…
Engaged in a long-running battle, they develop more and more sophisticated weapons as they attempt to outdo each other. Grades K-3 and older readers. Bestseller 1984.The Flush of Victory
Par Ray Smith. 2007
Author Ray Smith has correlated the recent electronic version of the Dubai Typescript and travelled the world corroborating the sordid…
and highly sensitive details contained within this novel. A lurid tale of murder, buggery and embezzlement, Ray Smith has created in Jack Bottomly perhaps the most despicable anti-hero in Canadian Literature. Sensitive readers (ie: you snivelling politically-correct pansies): be warned.A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Par Harry Mazer. 2001
They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and…
then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.From Sarajevo With Sorrow
Par Goran Simic, Amela Simic. 2005
From Sarajevo, with Sorrow restores all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the…
poems' original power and humanity. This collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written "under the candlelight" of the siege, and new poems returning to the sniper's alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo. This is a disturbingly resonant, timely and important collection.Humor and the Civil War: Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Par Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, John Richard Stephens, Alf Burnett, Orpheus C. Kerr, Petroleum V. Nasby. 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories.…
That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and South--endured very hard times and suffered terrible tragedies, and yet they maintained their sense of humor. They even printed jokes on the front page of newspapers, mixed in with the top news stories.Mark Twain is, of course, the most famous humorist of the nineteenth century, but there were others who were famous then that aren't quite as well known now. What they wrote still holds up well today and deserves to be revived. These humorists include Abraham Lincoln's favorites: Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr, and Petroleum V. Nasby. There's also Josh Billings, Alf Burnett, Bret Harte, and Ambrose Bierce. Even Abraham Lincoln himself was noted for his many funny stories and jokes. And people were still writing humorous stories involving the war at the end of the century, when O. Henry came along. This book includes all of them, along with some rare pieces by Mark Twain.Here's just one example: "During the war a Southern editor, wishing to compliment Confederate General Pillow, wrote a notice of him, in which the General was called the 'battle-scarred hero,' but the typesetter made the phrase read, the 'battle-scared hero.' On reading the notice, the irate soldier hied himself to the newspaper office, and demanded a correction. This was promised, and the next day's paper spoke of General Pillow as a 'bottle-scarred hero.'"This book draws together the very best of the Civil War's humor, parodies, burlesques, funny anecdotes, jokes, satire, personal experiences, tall tales, and wit. Retrieved through extensive research from books, newspapers, speeches, letters, and personal diaries, some of this material hasn't been published since the war. (345 pgs., 8 ill.)Humor and the Civil War: Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Par Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, John Stephens, Alf Burnett, Orpheus Kerr, Petroleum Nasby. 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories.…
That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and South--endured very hard times and suffered terrible tragedies, and yet they maintained their sense of humor. They even printed jokes on the front page of newspapers, mixed in with the top news stories.Mark Twain is, of course, the most famous humorist of the nineteenth century, but there were others who were famous then that aren't quite as well known now. What they wrote still holds up well today and deserves to be revived. These humorists include Abraham Lincoln's favorites: Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr, and Petroleum V. Nasby. There's also Josh Billings, Alf Burnett, Bret Harte, and Ambrose Bierce. Even Abraham Lincoln himself was noted for his many funny stories and jokes. And people were still writing humorous stories involving the war at the end of the century, when O. Henry came along. This book includes all of them, along with some rare pieces by Mark Twain.Here's just one example: "During the war a Southern editor, wishing to compliment Confederate General Pillow, wrote a notice of him, in which the General was called the 'battle-scarred hero,' but the typesetter made the phrase read, the 'battle-scared hero.' On reading the notice, the irate soldier hied himself to the newspaper office, and demanded a correction. This was promised, and the next day's paper spoke of General Pillow as a 'bottle-scarred hero.'"This book draws together the very best of the Civil War's humor, parodies, burlesques, funny anecdotes, jokes, satire, personal experiences, tall tales, and wit. Retrieved through extensive research from books, newspapers, speeches, letters, and personal diaries, some of this material hasn't been published since the war. (345 pgs., 8 ill.)Humor and the Civil War: Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Par Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, John Stephens, Alf Burnett, Orpheus Kerr, Petroleum Nasby. 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories.…
That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and South--endured very hard times and suffered terrible tragedies, and yet they maintained their sense of humor. They even printed jokes on the front page of newspapers, mixed in with the top news stories.Mark Twain is, of course, the most famous humorist of the nineteenth century, but there were others who were famous then that aren't quite as well known now. What they wrote still holds up well today and deserves to be revived. These humorists include Abraham Lincoln's favorites: Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr, and Petroleum V. Nasby. There's also Josh Billings, Alf Burnett, Bret Harte, and Ambrose Bierce. Even Abraham Lincoln himself was noted for his many funny stories and jokes. And people were still writing humorous stories involving the war at the end of the century, when O. Henry came along. This book includes all of them, along with some rare pieces by Mark Twain.Here's just one example: "During the war a Southern editor, wishing to compliment Confederate General Pillow, wrote a notice of him, in which the General was called the 'battle-scarred hero,' but the typesetter made the phrase read, the 'battle-scared hero.' On reading the notice, the irate soldier hied himself to the newspaper office, and demanded a correction. This was promised, and the next day's paper spoke of General Pillow as a 'bottle-scarred hero.'"This book draws together the very best of the Civil War's humor, parodies, burlesques, funny anecdotes, jokes, satire, personal experiences, tall tales, and wit. Retrieved through extensive research from books, newspapers, speeches, letters, and personal diaries, some of this material hasn't been published since the war. (345 pgs., 8 ill.)Humor and the Civil War: Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Par Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, John Stephens, Alf Burnett, Orpheus Kerr, Petroleum Nasby. 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories.…
That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and South--endured very hard times and suffered terrible tragedies, and yet they maintained their sense of humor. They even printed jokes on the front page of newspapers, mixed in with the top news stories.Mark Twain is, of course, the most famous humorist of the nineteenth century, but there were others who were famous then that aren't quite as well known now. What they wrote still holds up well today and deserves to be revived. These humorists include Abraham Lincoln's favorites: Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr, and Petroleum V. Nasby. There's also Josh Billings, Alf Burnett, Bret Harte, and Ambrose Bierce. Even Abraham Lincoln himself was noted for his many funny stories and jokes. And people were still writing humorous stories involving the war at the end of the century, when O. Henry came along. This book includes all of them, along with some rare pieces by Mark Twain.Here's just one example: "During the war a Southern editor, wishing to compliment Confederate General Pillow, wrote a notice of him, in which the General was called the 'battle-scarred hero,' but the typesetter made the phrase read, the 'battle-scared hero.' On reading the notice, the irate soldier hied himself to the newspaper office, and demanded a correction. This was promised, and the next day's paper spoke of General Pillow as a 'bottle-scarred hero.'"This book draws together the very best of the Civil War's humor, parodies, burlesques, funny anecdotes, jokes, satire, personal experiences, tall tales, and wit. Retrieved through extensive research from books, newspapers, speeches, letters, and personal diaries, some of this material hasn't been published since the war. (345 pgs., 8 ill.)Civil War Short Stories and Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Par Bob Blaisdell. 2011
This anthology commemorates the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War with reflections from both sides of the conflict. Compiled…
by an expert in the literature of the era, the poems and short stories appear in chronological order. They trace the war's progress and portray a gamut of moods, from the early days of eagerness to confront the foe to long years of horror at the ongoing carnage and sad relief at the struggle's end.Selections include the poetry of Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; observations by Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott; and noteworthy fiction by Ambrose Bierce ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") and Mark Twain ("A True Story, Repeated Word for Word, As I Heard It"). Lesser-known writers, many of them anonymous, offer heartfelt testimonials and eyewitness accounts from battlefields and the homefront.