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The bully boys
Par Eric Walters. 2000
While the War of 1812 rages, Tom Roberts, fourteen, is left behind to look after the family farm. That all…
changes when he stops some American soldiers from robbing the local store. His quick thinking and bravery catch the eye of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and lead to Tom joining the Bully Boys, FitzGibbon's unit. There Tom learns more about the fascination, and the horror, of war than he ever wanted to know. Junior high readers. 2000.The bush soldiers
Par John Hooker. 1984
Five stranded soldiers, two British, three Australian, try to survive as they trek across a bleak stretch of Australia in…
1943 destroying anything that might help the invading Japanese. The story of their adventures and privations alternates with flashbacks to the story of the heroic Sawtell, a dutiful member of the Australian Volunteer Defence Corps. Some strong language. 1984.The burning blue
Par James Holland. 2004
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace…
firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells and treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. The idyll cannot last. With war looming, Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying, becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war, even the Liddells's world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain, so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella - Guy's twin. 2004.The book thief
Par Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bronze horseman
Par Paullina Simons. 2000
Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitler's invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian…
girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it. Followed by "The bridge to Holy Cross" (DC33402). 2000.The bridge to Holy Cross
Par Paullina Simons. 2003
This novel resumes the tale of Tatiana and Alexander as pregnant eighteen year old Tatiana leaves Russia thinking Alexander is…
dead. She begins her new life in wartime New York City where she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. Alexander, an American trapped in Russia, has been arrested by Stalin's secret police as a traitor and a spy. Will the fate that once pulled them together so forcefully reunite them again? Sequel to "The Bronze Horseman" (DC33084). 2003.The boy in the striped pyjamas
Par John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The book of lights
Par Chaim Potok. 1981
Portrays the life and inner conflicts of Gershon Loran, a young Jewish rabbi. While serving as a chaplain during the…
Korean War, he must reconcile his deep-rooted beliefs in Judaism with the struggle between light and darkness in a land where Judaism has never existed. 1981.The blue helmet
Par William Bell. 2006
Lee wants to be a Tarantula - a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when…
his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee's father sends him to live with his aunt. He initially resists Aunt Reena and the customers of her café, but slowly learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.The bluest eye (Picador Bks.)
Par Toni Morrison. 1994
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
Par Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The black madonna
Par Doris May Lessing. 1964
The bloody ground (Starbuck chronicles. #4.)
Par Bernard Cornwell. 1996
Nathaniel Starbuck is plunged into the most desperate battle of America's Civil War, the fight at Antietam. He has been…
given a unit of failures and cowards, and must lead his ramshackle unit through a crossfire of hate, envy, murder and ambition. Sequel to "Battle flag" (DC30891). 1996. (Starbuck chronicles ; 4)The big bad wolf (Alex Cross series. #9.)
Par James Patterson. 2003
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are…
kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom. They are being bought and sold. It seems that a shadowy predator known only as "The Wolf" is the mass criminal behind this terrible trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime. Some strong language. Sequel to "Four blind mice" (DC25663), followed by "London bridges" (DC28329). 2003. (Alex Cross Series ; 9)The big gold dream
Par Chester B Himes. 1996
Pursuing two apparently unrelated murders, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are led into a squalid Harlem ghetto,…
where they confront the killer in an explosive showdown. Strong language and violence. 1996.The betrayers: a novel
Par David Bezmozgis. 2014
When Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician, refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West…
Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fiery young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. 2014.The bitterest age
Par Raymond Kennedy. 1994
As she endures the nightly Allied bombings and the privations of war with her mother and brother in 1945 Germany,…
ten-year-old Ingeborg Maas has faith that her soldier father will return alive from the front. Ingeborg's courage sustains her family through the terrible final days of the war. 1994.The beautiful things that heaven bears
Par Dinaw Mengestu. 2007
In his store in a neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., Ethiopian immigrant Stepha Stephanos regularly meets with fellow Africans Ken the…
Kenyan and Joe from the Congo, discussing how their immigrant expectations measure up to the reality of life in America. Stephanos makes keen observations of American race and class tensions, seeing similarities to his hometown of Addis Ababa. When Judith, a white woman, and Naomi, her mixed-race daughter, move into the neighbourhood, Stephanos finds tentative prospects for friendship beyond his African compatriots. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. c2007.The apprentice's masterpiece: a story of medieval Spain
Par Melanie Little. 2008
Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims and Christians coexist, but under the zealous Christian Queen…
Isabella, the country abruptly becomes one of the most murderously intolerant places on Earth. The Benvenistes, a family of scribes, are attempting to eke out a living, but they have a secret - they are Conversos: Jews who converted to Christianity. Now, with neighbours and friends turned into spies, fear hangs in the air. The story is written in verse. For junior high readers and older. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.The Atomic City girls: a novel
Par Janet Beard. 2018
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. There, June…
joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself. 2018.