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Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 9
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Paul Colbert's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper stuck in a tree. When Paul helps the soldier, he discovers a secret resistance movement - and he learns the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis. But first, the resistance needs Paul's help. This is Paul's chance...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tenant farmer’s son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl’s daughter, but that couldn’t keep Amos Darby from his secret friendship with Charlotte Terrington…until the reality of the Great War sobered youthful dreams. Now decades later, he bears the brutal scars of battles fought in the trenches and their futures that were stolen away. His return home doesn’t come with tender reunions, but with the hollow fulfillment...
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte likes cracking codes together with her great-grandmother. On her ninth birthday, she has to solve a few puzzles to find Nana's gift. Charlotte goes on a fun quest--and learns about her grandma's interesting past along the way."--Inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. 'You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you're there to save the people of France.' Sliding the coded message in between the crisp pages of the hardback novel, bookstore owner Laurence slips out into the cold night to meet her resistance contact, pulling her woollen beret down further over her face. The silence of the night is suddenly...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It’s 1942. German Nazis occupy much of France. And twelve-year-old Miriam, who is Jewish, is not safe. With help and quick thinking, Miri is saved from the roundup that takes her entire Jewish neighborhood. She escapes Paris, landing in a small French village, where the spires of the famous Chateau de Chenonceau rise high into the sky, its bridge across the River Cher like a promise, a fairy tale. But Miri’s life is no fairy tale. Her parents...
6) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is nothing like her hero Eleanor Roosevelt. She is timid and all together uncertain that she has much to offer the world. And as World War II rages overseas, Eleanor is consumed with worry for her Jewish relatives in Europe. When a chance encounter proves her to be a one-in-a-generation math whiz--a fact she has worked hard all her life to hide--Eleanor gets recruited by the US Army and entrusted with the ultimate challenge:...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as...
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