Iron Thunder: the Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac(2007)Tom's job as an assistant to Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, makes him a target of Confederate spies.
The Fighting Ground by Avi(2004)Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Voices at Whisper Bend by Katherine Ayres(1999)In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.
Who Comes With Cannons? by Patricia Beatty(1992)In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
War Dog: a Novel by Martin Booth(1997)After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet is requisitioned by the British Army and sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searching for survivors of Germany's bombing raids on English cities, and in Italy at the end of the war.
For Freedom: the Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley(2003)Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
The Light in the Cellar: a Molly Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey(2007)While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
Spying on Miss Muller by Eve Bunting(1995)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.
Attack of the Turtle: a Novel by Drew Carlson(2007)During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.
The Klipfish Code by Mary Casanova(2007)Sent with her younger brother to Godøy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them.
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier(1974)Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier(1994)While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.
Where the Ground Meets the Sky by Jacqueline Davies(2002)During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project.
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp by Barry Denenberg(1995)Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson by Barry Denenberg(1996)The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Phillips Denslow(2003)In 1862, as William Burd fights in the Civil War, he exchanges letters with his sister, Sallie, who is also writing to Confederate and Union generals asking about their horses in order to write a book.
Jacob's Rescue: a Holocaust Story by Malka Drucker(1993)In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
Mary Alice Peale, Philadelphia, 1777 by Kathleen Duey(1996)When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.
Janey G. Blue, Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Kathleen Duey(2001)In Hawaii in 1941, sixth grader Janey G. Blue experiences the terror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Give Me Liberty by Laura Elliott(2006)Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.
Betrayal at Cross Creek by Kathleen Ernst(2004)Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes(2004)After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff(2005)During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her.
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff(1997)During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Simon Says by Molly Griffis(2004)Simon, a sixth-grader who had been sent from Germany to live with an American family when he was six years old, spends the summer of 1942 facing his feelings of abandonment and learning about antisemitism in his small Oklahoma town.
Abner and Me: a Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman(2005)With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Hahn(2003)With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War.
I Thought My Soul would Rise and Fly: the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen(1997)Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
The Trouble with Jeremy Chance by George Harrar(2003)In 1919, following a disagreement with his father and his first whipping by a belt, twelve-year-old Jeremy hops a train to Boston to meet his older brother, a soldier returning from World War I.
A Spy on the Home Front: a Molly Mystery by Alison Hart(2005)During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda.
Gabriel's Horses by Alison Hart(2007)In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett(2006)In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.
Eyes Like Willy's by Juanita Havill(2004)While vacationing over the course of several summers in Austria, French siblings Guy and Sarah Masson become best friends with a German boy, until the outbreak of World War I puts them on opposing sides.
Primrose Day by Carolyn Haywood(2005)During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.
A Light in the Storm: the Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse(1999)In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt(1964)Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones(1999)In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
Traitor in Williamsburg: a Felicity Mystery by Elizabeth McDavid Jones(2008)During the time of the Revolution, Felicity must figure out who is making false accusations, saying that her father is a traitor and helping the British.
Peril at King's Creek: a Felicity Mystery by Elizabeth McDavid Jones(2006)In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War.
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata(2006)After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith(1957)With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. When he infiltrates Colonel Watie's Confederate camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself -- only fighting for a different cause.
The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer(2002)Hoping to contribute to the war effort during World War II, eleven-year-old Teresa organizes her friends to care for an ill neighbor's victory garden.
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson(2006)After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
A Time for Courage: the Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen by Kathryn Lasky(2001)A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family.
Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence(2001)An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
When Christmas Comes Again: the World War I Diary of Simone Spencer by Beth Seidel Levine(2002)Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
Summer Soldiers by Susan Hart Lindquist(1999)After his father goes off to war during the summer of 1918, eleven-year-old Joe, along with his friends, contends with the town bullies and tries to figure out the meaning of courage.
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle(2000)In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot father left behind after fleeing his home.
His Banner Over Me by Jean Little(1995)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry(1989)In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
The Hollow Tree by Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn(1997)
The Good Liar by Gregory Maguire(1999)Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.
Greater Than Angels by Carol Matas(1998)Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
A Boy at War: a Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer(2002)While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
The Doll with the Yellow Star by Yona Zeldis McDonough(2005)When France falls to Germany at the start of World War II, nine-year-old Claudine must leave her beloved parents and friends to stay with relatives in America, accompanied by her doll, Violette.
Abigail's Drum by John Minahan(1995)During the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save both him and the town.
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union Soldier by Jim Murphy(1998)James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II Soldier by Walter Dean Myers(1999)A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli(1997)After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
The Quilt by Gary Paulsen(2004)During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a six-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota.
Soldier's Heart: a Novel of the Civil War by Gary Paulsen(1998)Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Addy's Short Story Collection by Connie Rose Porter(2006)After the Civil War ends, Addy's family is reunited in freedom in Philadelphia. But the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
Thomas by Bonnie Pryor(1998)In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.
Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi(2007)Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi(2001)To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Escape from War by James Riordan(2005)Tragedy of war told through the eyes of two children. Read Frank's story first then read Hannah's.
Washington City is Burning by Harriette Robinet(1996)In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
The Invasion of Sandy Bay by Anita Sanchez(2008)In 1814, as the War of 1812 rages, twelve-year-old Lemuel Brooks tries to save the sleepy fishing village of Sandy Bay, Massachussetts, where he, himself, is an outsider, from bumbling British invaders.
The Moon Bridge by Marcia Savin(1992)The friendship between San Francisco girls Mitzi Fujimoto and Ruthie Fox is changed when World War II begins and Mitzi and her family are forced to go into an internment camp.
Brave Emily: 1944 by Valerie Tripp(2006)Molly befriends a war refugee named Emily Bennett, who struggles to overcome shyness.
Under a Shooting Star by Maxine Trottier(2002)As the summer of 1812 trembled on the brink of war, Edward Wolf MacNeil did not yet understand the nature of courage. He soon would.
Hannah of Fairfield by Jean Van Leeuwen(1999)For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.
The Key is Lost by Ida Vos(2000)When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another.
Red Moon at Sharpsburg: a Novel by Rosemary Wells(2007)As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.
Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan(2004)In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
Once on This Island by Gloria Whelan(1995)Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
Archie's War: my Scrapbook of the First World War, 1914-1918 by Marcia Williams(2007)When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer by G. Clifton Wisler(1995)Recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer, who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler(1997)In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Run the Blockade by G. Clifton Wisler(2000)During the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Henry finds adventure working as a ship's boy and lookout aboard the "Banshee," a new British ship attempting to get past the Yankee blockade of the Southern coast.
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff(1998)In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
Dear Papa by Anne Ylvisaker(2002)In September of 1943, one year after her father's death, nine-year-old Isabelle begins writing him letters, which are interspersed with letters to other members of her family, relating important events in her life and how she feels about them.
