World War II
Mira and Baku
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year
With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.
It’s a w ...
Call Across the Sea
History is made one brave act at a time.
Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and Sweden, carried along by the s ...
Louder Than Words
Heroic actions speak volumes in a powerful middle grade novel based on real WWII events, set in Ukraine.
"[a] unique perspective on the Holocaust..."—starred review, School Libary Journal
Life is becoming ...
Masters of Silence
Silence can be powerful.
Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save the ...
The Sound of Freedom
Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom.
It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs h ...
End of the Line
Ordinary citizens risk everything to save a young Jewish girl in wartime Holland.
Five-year-old Beatrix looks on in horror as the soldier forces her mother off the tram. It is 1942 in Amsterdam, and everyone ...