 | Jimmy's Stars Release Date: April 29, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie can hardly stand to see him go. With Jimmy gone, Aunt Toots moves into his bedroom, Ellie’s mother takes a war job at a factory, and everything in Ellie’s life seems upside down. But she figures that the war will be over...
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 |  | The Forgotten Pearl Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up When Chloe visits her grandmother, she learns how close the Second World War came to destroying her family. Could the experiences of another time help Chloe to face her own problems? In 1941, Poppy lives in Darwin, a peaceful paradise far from the war. But when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, then Australia, everything Poppy holds dear is threatened - her family, her neighbours, her friends and her beloved pets. Her brother Edward is taken prisoner - of - war. Her home town becomes a war zone, as the Japanese raid ...
 |  | I Survived The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (I Survived (Pb)) Publication Date: September 1, 2011 ...
 |  | Hoist the Flag Publication Date: April 16, 2012Iwo Jima. 1945. Bullets whistled. Torpedoes screamed. Shells exploded. Men were bleeding. Men were dying. Iwo Jima was swarming with American soldiers and Japanese soldiers. February 23, 1945...the date will live on forever as will the words, "Hoist the flag, hoist the flag of liberty!" ...
 |  | Ghost of Heroes Past (General Fiction Childrensya) Publication Date: August 15, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
 |  | Generals Die in Bed Publication Date: June 1974Drawing on his own experiences in the First World War, Charles Yale Harrison tells a stark and poignant story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front. It is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not yet old enough to vote. In sparse but gripping prose, Harrison conveys a sense of the horror of life in the trenches. Here is where soldiers fight and die, entombed in mud, surrounded by rats and lice, forced to survive on insufficient rations. Harrison captures the only kind of humour possible under the circumstances of life on the Western Fro...
 |  | How to Survive Summer Camp (Eagle Books) Publication Date: June 25, 1987 ...
 |  | Into No Man's Land: The Journal Of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Publication Date: June 1, 2012FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Confronted with oppressive heat, dense jungles, and an enemy that is everywhere, Patrick Flaherty is overwhelmed by life on the battlefield when he fights in the Vietnam War. ...
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 |  | The Island on Bird Street Publication Date: January 1992| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
 |  | The French Twins Publication Date: May 2002This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valua...
 |  | The Foreshadowing Release Date: May 23, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun.17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected--she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces o...
 |  | In the Blood (Signature) Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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