Avi

DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON? In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, 11-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

2001

200 p.

Avi

“WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN, ANYWAY?” In the mid-40’s when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II 6th-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of .his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.

1992

170 p.

Cushman, Karen

THE LOUD SILENCE OF FRANCINE GREEN In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

2006

225 p.

Elmer, Robert

PROMISE BREAKER Promise of Zion. #1 In 1947, two young people - one a Polish Jew and the other the daughter of a British major - make their way to Palestine for very different reasons and under very different circumstances.

2000

167 p.

English, Karen

FRANCIE 1940's Alabama. When the 16-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.

1999

199 p.

Giff, Patricia Reily

ALL THE WAY HOME In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio. The two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.

2001

169 p.

Hahn, Mary Downing

FOLLOWING MY OWN FOOTSTEPS In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.

1996

186 p.

Hahn, Mary Downing

AS EVER, GORDY sequel to FOLLOWING MY OWN FOOTSTEPS Gordy thought he had left his old hometown behind him forever, but now he has to move back. He is worried that all his bad habits are waiting for him.

1998

184 p.

Hart, Alison

A SPY ON THE HOMEFRONT A Molly Mystery American Girl A visit to her grandparents' farm in the summer of 1944, plunges Molly into the midst of a wartime mystery.

2005

165 p.

Hinman, Bonnie

JENNIE'S WAR Sisters in Timeseries The Home Front in World War II In 1944, ten-year-old Jennie Fleming is doing what she can to help win the war - she's hoeing weeds in her "Victory Garden" on the "home front."

2005

138 p.

Hoobler, Dorothy

SECRETS The 1940's In 1944 Gabriella, Esther, and other young people see the impact of World War II on their lives in the United States.

2001

165 p.

Klages, Ellen

THE GREEN GLASS SEA It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.

2006

321 p.

Levitin, Sonia

ANNIE'S PROMISE Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 give 12-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish imigrants. Sequel to "Silver Days."

1993

186 p.

Levitin, Sonia

SILVER DAYS In this sequel to Journey to America, the reunited Platt family works hard at settling in to America, but the spectre of the war in Europe continues to affect their lives.

1989

185 p.

Lyon, George Ella

SONNY'S HOUSE OF SPIES In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "uncle Marty, who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.

2004

298 p.

Matthew, Kezi

SCORPIO'S CHILD When a strangely behaving uncle she has never heard of comes to live in her family's house ina small South Carolina town, 14-year-old Afton, grieving over her borther's death in World War II, tries to unravel the secrets her mother refuses to share with her. June 1947.

1999

199p.

McKenzie, Ellen

UNDER THE BRIDGE When Ritchie's younger sister, Rosie gets very sick after their mother suddenly goes away, Rosie begins to receive letters from a lonely troll, and these letters help Ritchie cope with his mother's absence, his father's seeming indifference, and the 5th grade bully.

1994

140 p.

Moses, Shelia

THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH In 1947, 12-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.

2004

206 p.

Myers, Walter Dean

THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS. THE NEGRO LEAGUES My Name is America. A Dear America Book Teenager Biddy Owens’ 1948 journal about working for the Birminham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family’s resistnce to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues. Alabama, 1948.

2001

116 p.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

BLIZZARD'S WAKE In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Grand Forks, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

2000

212 p.

Paulsen, Gary

THE COOKCAMP In 1994, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

1991

115 p.

Slepian, Jan

Risk 'n' roses In 1948, newly moved to the Bronx, 11-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendhsip with the bold and daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood.

1990

175 p.

Strickland, Brad

WHEN MACK CAME BACK When his older brother Ben leaves the family farm in order to join the army in 1943, 10-year-old Maury remains behind to deal with his angry father and to care for Ben's injured puppy.

2000

105 p.

Taylor, Mildred

THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

1992

209 p.

Willis, Patricia

A PLACE TO CLAIM AS HOME 13-year-old Henry, hired by the strangely unfriendly Miss Morrison to be summer help on her farm in 1943 while most of the men in the aea are overseas in the war, discovers that her gruff hardness conceals hurt over a secret in her past.

1991

166 p.

Young, Ronder

MOVING MAMA TO TOWN In 1947, his head filled with the advice and wisdom of his runaway father, 13-year-old Freddy moves his mother from their Georgia farm into town and takes on the challenge of holding his family together.

1997

219 p.