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1) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
2) Duke
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Series
Dogs of World War II volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In 1944 Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened and determined to get his dog back.
4) Friedrich
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime. The story of a Jewish boy and his family caught in the horror of the rise of the Nazi party and the Holocaust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
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Dogs of World War II volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.
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Series
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Enslow
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Examines the history of the Great Depression and details the New Deal programs designed to bring relief to the American people and the economy, highlighting the role of President Franklin Roosevelt and showing the impact of his policies on ordinary people.
10) Sink or swim
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
11) I am Defiance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
From a young age Brigitte learns to support the Nazi party and attend her League of German Girls meetings, but after reading a forbidden pamphlet from the White Rose she begins to question everything she has been taught.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"The epic story of William Ash and the escape from Stalag Luft III German POW camp during World War II"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The 1930s in America will always be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Michael L. Cooper takes readers through this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, known as the Dust Bowl. He chronicles the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
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