Chronological Period/1940's
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The Wish Book Christmas
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of If I Were You comes a nostalgic and endearing holiday story that reminds us that sometimes the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expect and don’t deserve.
Best … [more below]
- Author: Austin, Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1496452526
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary … [more below]- Author: Stargardt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094899
- Language: English
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Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this riveting mystery from Susan Elia MacNeal, England’s most daring spy, Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat t
- Series: Maggie Hope #5
- Author: MacNeal, Susan Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0804178704
- Language: English
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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station That Helped Defeat the Nazis
$12.99 Add to cart‘Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.‘
– Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X.
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain’s most talented mathematician- Author: Turing, John Dermot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1838576509
- Language: English
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The Four Graces
$14.99 Add to cartNo Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each Other
The four Grace sisters–Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie–love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, t
- Author: Stevenson, D. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1402274688
- Language: English
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Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
$19.99 Read moreIn this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Na
- Author: Dauvillier, Loic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1596438738
- Language: English
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
$30.00 Add to cart“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132156
- Language: English
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Finding Langston
$16.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville dist
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0823439607
- Language: English
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Execution (the Plot to Kill Hitler #2): Volume 2
$6.99 Add to cartBased on the real-life scheme to take down one of history’s greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Summer 1944.Max, Gert… [more below]
- Series: Plot to Kill Hitler #2
- Author: Marino, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1338359045
- Language: English
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$10.95 Read moreTraces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.
- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0395629780
- Language: English
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Remember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories
$7.99 Add to cartRemember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories allows readers to understand the war not as seen through the eyes of soldiers but through the eyes of children who survived the bombings, th… [more below]
- Series: Remember
- Author: Nicholson, Dorinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1426322518
- Language: English
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On the Wings of Heroes
$8.99 Add to cartDavy Bowman’s dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davy’s brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2008
- ISBN10: 014241204X
- Language: English
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Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
$21.99 Read moreRecipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
From celebrated author
Recipient of a Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction Special Mention Honor Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019- Author: Bryan, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1534404902
- Language: English
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World War II Pilots: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartAir raid The world’s great powers are at war again. This is the Second World War, but it is history’s first war in which airplanes play a major role. You want to fly and you want to fight. Will you: … [more below]
- Series: You Choose Books (Paperback)
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 162065718X
- Language: English
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Weedflower
$8.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being th… [more below]
- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 1416975667
- Language: English
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The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition
$18.99 Read moreA Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2023
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Partition of British
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2022
A Society of Illustrators Original Art Show Selection- Author: Shamsi, Shirin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1665906790
- Language: English
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Lentil
$9.99 Read moreYoung Lentil wants to learn to sing, but no matter how hard he tries he can’t sing on key. He can’t even pucker his lips to whistle So Lentil learns to play the harmonica instead and beautifully carr… [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: McCloskey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 27 1978
- ISBN10: 0140502874
- Language: English
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The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II
$9.99 Add to cartA young readers’ edition of an important and inspiring true story of hope and survival during World War II.
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. Bu- Author: Golabek, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 031655488X
- Language: English
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Lily’s Crossing
$8.99 Add to cartThis “brilliantly told” (New York Times) Newbery Honor Book gives readers a sense of what it was like to be on the American home front while our soldiers were away fighting in World War II.
As in pas- Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0440414539
- Language: English
