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Historical Fiction: WW II

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Author Book Title
Adler, David Don't Talk to me About the War (US)
Avi Don't You Know There is a War On?  (US)
Bloor, Edward London Calling (England)
Booth, Martin War Dog (Europe)
Bradley, Kimberly For Freedom (France)
Calkhoven, Laurie Michael at the Invasions of France, 1943 (France)
Chapman, Fern schumer Is it Night or Day (US)
Cheaney, J.B. My Friend the Enemy (US)
Cooper, Susan Dawn of Fear (Great Britain)
Denenberg, Barry

The Journal of Ben Uchida:  Citizen #13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp (My Name is America)

Fitzmaurice, Kathryn Diamond in the Desert (Japanese Internment)
Gallico, Paul The Snow Goose (France)
Giff, Patricia Lily's Crossing (US)
  Willow Run (US)
Glatshteyn, Yankev Emil and Karl (Austria)
Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier (US)
Hahn, Mary Downing Following My Own Footsteps (US)
  Stepping on the Cracks (US)
Magorian, Michelle Goodnight Mr. Tom (England)
Myers, Walter Dean The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins (Normandy)
Napoli, Donna Jo Fire in the Hills (sequel to Stones in Water)
  Stones in Water (Italy & Germany)
Osborne, Mary Pope My Secret War:  The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck (US) (Dear America)
Parkinson, Curtis Domenic's War: a Story of the Battle of Monte Cassino (Italy)
Patneaude, David Thin Wood Walls (US, Japanese Internment Camps)
Paton, Walsh Fireweed (England)
Park, Linda Sue When My Name was Keoko (Korea)
Paulsen, Gary The Cookcamp (US)
Pearsall, Shelley Jump Into the Sky (US)
Pratchett, Terry Johnny and the Bomb (England)
Ruby, Lois Shanghai Shadows (China)
Salisbury, Graham Under the Blood Red Sun (Hawaii, Pearl Harbor)
Sherman, M. Zachary A Time for War (US parachute troops)
Stone, Phoebe The Romeo and Juliet Code (US, ciphers)
Thor, Annika A Faraway Island (Sweden)
  The Lily Pond (sequel)
Watkins, Yoko So Far From the Bamboo Grove (Korea/Japan)
Wolff, Virginia Euwer Bat 6 (US)
Zindel, Paul The Gadget (US, Manhattan Project)
 
Holocaust Fiction
Baer, Edith Walk the Dark Streets (Germany)
Barth-Grozinger, Inge Something Remains (Germany)
Bergman, Tamar Along the Tracks (Soviet Union)
Greif, Jean-Jacques The Fighter
Hartling, Peter Crutches (Austria)
Isaacs, Anne Torn Thread (Czecholslovakia)
Kerr, Judith When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Germany)
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars (Denmark)
Matas, Carol Daniel's Story
  Greater than Angels (France)
  In my Enemy's House (Germany)
  Lisa's War (Denmark)
Morpurgo, Michael Waiting for Anya (France)
Orgel, Doris The Devil in Vienna (Austria)
Orlev, Uri The Island on Bird Street (Poland)
  Run, Boy, Run (Poland)
Voorhoeve, Anne My Family for the War (England)
Vos, Ida Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon (Holland)
  The Key is Lost (Holland)
Williams, Laura Behind the Bedroom Wall (Germany)
Yolen, Jane Devil's Arithmetic (Poland)