A Jewish girl finds herself hiding in a French Catholic boarding school during WWII in The Night War, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
Browsing: historical fiction
A young woman finds herself working on a top-secret project for the US Army during WWII in Trajectory, by Cambria Gordon.
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, by Alan Gratz, follows two boys during the raid and aftermath of the Japanese attach in December 1941.
A young woman travels to Egypt to uncover the mystery of her parents’ deaths in What the River Knows, a historical fantasy by Isabel Ibañez.
Three siblings work to stay together when their father goes to war in Nothing Else but Miracles, by Kate Albus.
Heather B. Moore’s Under the Java Moon explores the experiences of a family separated during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies during WWII.
Sandra Gulland’s The Game of Hope is inspired by the real-life autobiography of Napoleon’s stepdaughter Hortense de Beauharnais.
It’s easy as a reader to become so swept up in Avi’s new middle-grade novel, The Player King, that you keep reading straight through to the end.