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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the experiences of children living in the United States during World War II, including writing V-mail to soldiers, participating in air raid drills, planting Victory Gardens, buying stamps for war bonds, and gathering cooking grease and scrap metal for making bombs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
An accessible portrait of the 32nd president traces his privileged upbringing, the polio that cost him the use of his legs and his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II.
Brought up in a privileged family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had every opportunity in front of him. As a young man, he found a path in politics and quickly began to move into the public eye. That ascent seemed impossible when he contracted polio and lost the use...
Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Rosie, a Detroit Herstory is a story for young readers about women workers during World War II. Across America, women produced everything from ships and tanks, to ammunition and uniforms, in spectacular quantities. Their skill, bravery, tenacity, and spirit became a rallying point of American patriotism and aided in defining Detroit as the Arsenal of Democracy. Even though women workers were invaluable to the war effort, they met with many challenges...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of World War II Army nurses, who brought medical skills, courage, and cheer to hospitals throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific.
11) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice...
16) My dog Teny
Author
Publisher
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of American nurses serving in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands on December 8, 1941."--Dust jacket.
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1994, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In the early forties when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Howard DeMallie, a young American pilot, and his crew are forced to bail out of their B-17 airplane over Holland. He is helped by the Dutch underground and imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp.
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