Theme: Occupation

Climbing the Stairs

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A remarkable debut novel set in India that shows one girl’s struggle for independence. During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police, she is forced to live with her grandfather’s large traditional [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, India, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » 3 Comments

Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told to tell no one she is Jewish, [...]

Descriptors: Belgium, Biography, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Greater Than Angels

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In 1940, Anna Hirsch and her family are captured by the Nazis and deported to a refugee camp in the south of France. The children held in the camp are sent to Le Chambon, a tiny village whose citizens have agreed to care for deported children. There, in the face of escalating dominance and threats [...]

Descriptors: France, Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Hitler’s Canary

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton participate in the Danish Resistance during World War II.

Descriptors: Denmark, Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Disguised: A Wartime Memoir

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Here is the true story of a girl who posed as a boy during World War II — and dared to speak up for her fellow prisoners of war.With the Japanese army poised to invade their Indonesian island in 1942, Rita la Fontaine’s family knew that they and the other Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian residents would [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Indonesia, Japan, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Malka

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Hungary, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Comments closed