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World War II Fiction
These titles are all hardback fiction and are available for checkout from Franklin's library.
Bawden, N. CARRIE'S
WAR.
Carrie and her younger brother spend World War II as evacuees in a small Welsh village
where Carrie, upset by a family feud, commits an act that haunts her for thirty years.
Benchley, N. BRIGHT CANDLES.
16-year-old Jens Hansen joins the Danish Resistance movement when the Nazis invade
Denmark.
Bergman, T. ALONG THE TRACKS.
Recounts the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German
invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Uniorn, is separated from his family, and
undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.
Boulle, P. THE
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI.
The experiences of British prisoners in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
Brancato, R.
DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE.
A young girl living in a small Pennsylvania town relates her and her friends activities in
and out of school during the last months of World War II.
Bruckner, K. THE
DAY OF THE BOMB.
Sadako, her brother and parents, survived the atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima in
July of 1945. This is an account of that event which affected the history of the world.
Bunting, E.
SPYING ON MISS MULLER.
At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old
Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her
worries about her own father's drinking problem.
Burch, R. HUT SCHOOL
AND THE WARTIME HOME-FRONT HEROES.
Describes the reactions of a sixth grade class in Georgia to World War II and its effect
on their lives.
Cooper, S. DAWN
OF FEAR.
Derek and his friends are more concerned with battling the gang from the next street than
with the planes flying overhead on their way to bomb London.
Dank, M. THE
DANGEROUS GAME.
Love of Paris and France prompts a sixteen-year-old boy to join the resistance movement
shortly after the Nazi invasion of 1940.
Degens, T.
TRANSPORT 7-41-R.
A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian section of defeated
Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
Ferry, C.
RASPBERRY ONE.
Nick and Hildy, two young aircrewmen flying bombing support against Japan's kamikaze
offensive in the Pacific, are devastated but ultimately strengthened by their war
experience.
Ferry, C. ONE
MORE TIME!
Skeets Sinclair, the young tenor sax in Gene Markham's Orchestra, finds his life and the
future of the band changing fast as they tour the United States during World War II.
Fife, D.
DESTINATION UNKNOWN.
A twelve-year-old boy stows away on a Norwegian fishing smack during World War II and
shares the harrowing experiences of its occupants as they cross the Atlantic to North
America.
Forester, C.S.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
Commander Krause's mission was to lead the protecting screen of four escort vessels
convoying thirty-seven Allied merchantmen across the icy North Atlantic from America to
England during the most critical days of World War II.
Gee, M. THE
CHAMPION.
In 1943, twelve-year-old Rex sees his quiet New Zealand village dramatically changed by
the arrival of a black American soldier on leave from the war.
Gehrts, B. DON'T
SAY A WORD.
Living in Berlin during World War II, Anna finds herself and her family growing more and
more aware of the dangerous direction in which her country is moving as her friends start
to die.
Greene, B. SUMMER
OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER.
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for
a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.
Hartling, P.
CRUTCHES.
A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on
crutches and together they find hope for the future.
Haugaard, E. CHASE ME, CATCH
NOBODY!
On a school trip to Germany in 1937, a 14-year-old Danish schoolboy becomes involved in
the activities of the anti-Nazi underground.
Haugaard, E. THE
LITTLE FISHES.
A tale of the tragedy of war: the story of a 12-year-old orphaned beggar in occupied
Italy, his daily search for food and for meaning in the life he witnesses, and the
development of compassion and understanding that will help him survive.
Kotowska, M. THE
BRIDGE TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Children observing and experiencing life during the war often saw things differently from
the adults around them.
Laird, C. BUT CAN
THE PHOENIX SING?
Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of his stern and remote
stepfather's hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read while his stepfather is away
in Australia.
Laird, C. SHADOW
OF THE WALL.
Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the
director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a
resistance organization.
Levitin, S.
SILVER DAYS.
Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous Jewish family lives in a New York City
tenement until Papa decides to move the family to California.
MacLean, A. THE
GUNS OF NAVARONE.
Five men were chosen to silence the guns of Navarone, which controlled the approaches to
the eastern Mediterranean island of Kheros, before the Germans launched their inevitable
attack.
Magorian, M.
GOODNIGHT, MR. TOM.
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English
countryside during the second World War.
Manley, J. SHE
FLEW NO FLAGS.
In early 1944, as the war rages around them, an American family travels from India to the
United States by ship, under blackout conditions, through the enemy waters of the Indian
and Pacific Oceans.
Monsarrat, N. THE
CRUEL SEA.
A story about the Battle of the North Atlantic.
Morpurgo, M.
WAITING FOR ANYA.
A boy devises a plan for helping a band of Jewish children escape from the invading Nazis.
Murphy, C. GOLD
STAR SISTER.
While watching her grandmother cope with the last stages of cancer, thirteen-year-old
Carrie comes to know her better through letters Gram and her long-dead brother wrote to
each other during World War II.
Murray, M. THE
CRYSTAL NIGHTS.
The years 1938 and 1939 were especially troubling to Elly's family because they had
relatives in Nazi Germany.
Napoli, D. STONES
IN WATER.
After being taken from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys, including his
Jewish friend, by German soldiers, Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort
until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to make his way back home
to Venice.
Orgel, D. THE
DEVIL IN VIENNA.
A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school,
but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.
Orlev, U. THE
ISLAND ON BIRD STREET.
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.
Orlev, U. THE
LADY WITH THE HAT.
In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the
German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in
Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him.
Oughton, J. THE
WAR IN GEORGIA.
Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her
family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields than those in foreign lands.
Paige, H. THE
SUMMER WAR.
While at a camp in the Adirondacks, 14-year-old Ely's discovery of a buried skeleton
uncovers the hatred that had swirled around German-Americans during World War II.
Pearson, K. THE
LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN.
In 1945, as the end of the war approaches, Gavin and his sister Norah have to prepare to
return to their family in England.
Pople, M. THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FAMILY.
Sent from England for safety during World War II to stay with an Australian grandmother
known to hate her family, fifteen-year-old Katherine discovers a totally unexpected
character and startling revelations about her family.
Poynter, M. A
TIME TOO SWIFT.
Living in San Diego on the verge of World War II, fifteen-year-old Marjorie is confused by
her romantic feelings for a handsome serviceman and the changing attitudes toward the
Japanese neighbors she has known all her life.
Reuter, B. THE
BOYS FROM ST. PETRI.
In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against
the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
Salisbury, G.
UNDER THE BLOOD-RED SUN.
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life
with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
in December 1941.
Suhl, Y. ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE GATE.
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish couple when they are confined to a ghetto during
the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Thesman, J. MOLLY
DONNELLY.
Twelve-year-old Molly, who lives next door to a Japanese American family and whose cousin
is a nurse in the Philippines, experiences many changes in her life when World War II
breaks out.
Todd, L. THE BEST
KEPT SECRET OF THE WAR.
During the summer of 1944, young Cam Reed fights a few important battles of his own in
Pinehill, North Carolina while his dad is in Europe fighting the Germans.
Vos, I. ANNA IS
STILL HERE.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during
World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
Watkins, Y. SO
FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE.
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan
with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
Werstein, I. THE
LONG ESCAPE.
A rest home director, with the lives of fifty children in her hands, decides to lead them
on a journey from Belgium to England in advance of the German invasion.
Westall, R. BLITZCAT.
During World War II a black cat journeys all across war-ravaged England in an effort to
track down her beloved master.
Westall, R. THE
MACHINE GUNNERS.
After an air raid, a group of English children hide a German machine gun from adults who
are looking for it.
White, R.
SURRENDER.
The war begins for young Juan and Juanita MacGregor when a fleet of Japanese bombers
attack the U.S. Naval Base at Cavite in the Philippine Islands.
Willis, P. A
PLACE TO CLAIM AS HOME.
Thirteen-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 area are overseas in the war, discovers
that her gruff hardness conceals hurt over a secret in her past.
Yep, L.
HIROSHIMA.
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects
Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
