Mr. Wilson's World War II Fiction
November 10, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Bou HS
Boulle, Pierre. The bridge over the River Kwai. A satire on a certain type of British officer who clings to discipline even in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. He builds a bridge with prison labor and indignantly exposes a team of commandos when they arrive to blow it up.
Fic Bru HS
Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Fic Bun
Bunting, Eve. Spying on Miss Muller. 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.
Fic Cla
Clarke, John. Black soldier. When George Bunty, a Black, enlists during World War II, he never suspects that his skin color will make any difference in the Army.
Fic Den
Denenberg, Barry. The journal of Ben Uchida, citizen 13559 : Mirror Lake Internment Camp. 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.
Fic Dod HS
Dodson, Kenneth. Away all boats : a novel. A novelized history of World War II from the eyes of the men on the attack-transports, small landing vessels.
Fic Dun HS
Dunmore, Spencer. Means of escape. As the Nazi regime begins to collapse near the end of World War II, a downed British airman and a renegade German officer attempt to escape from Germany.
Fic Est HS
Estey, Dale. A lost tale. During World War II, the Druids of the Isle of Man call on their otherworldly powers to join forces with the British Intelligenece to prevent the Nazis from stealing the secret of the atomic bomb.
Fic Fas HS
Fast, Howard. Second generation. This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.
Fic Hah
Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on the cracks. In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
Fic Hel HS
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Set on a tiny Mediterranean island during World War II, this comic novel recounts the amazing adventures of the 256th bombing squadron and its lead bombardier, Captain Yossarian.
Fic Hou HS
Hough, Richard Alexander. Razor eyes. More than forty years after the fact, a farmer details his experiences as a British pilot in World War II and the maturing effect they had on him.
Fic Hug HS
Hughes, Dean. Soldier boys. Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Fic Jun
Jungman, Ann. Resistance. In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, Jan and Elli are ashamed that their fathers work for the Nazis, and they try to find a way to help the Dutch underground resistance.
Fic Kno HS
Knowles, John. A separate peace. Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.
Fic Kud
Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Pearl Harbor is burning : a story of World War II. Frank is miserable when his family comes to Hawaii in 1941. He meets a Japanese-American boy who could become his friend, but Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
Fic Mat HS
Matas, Carol. After the war. After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
Fic McD
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The doll with the yellow star. 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.
Fic Mye
Myers, Walter Dean. The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins : a World War II soldier. 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.
Fic Noo HS
Noonan, Michael. McKenzie's boots. To escape an unhappy situation at home, fourteen-year-old Rod McKenzie, six feet tall and no more than 154 pounds, enlists in the army during World War II claiming to be nineteen.
Fic Orl
Orlev, Uri. The island on Bird Street. During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Fic Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. My secret war : the World War II diary of Madeline Beck. Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.
Fic Oss HS
Ossowski, Leonie. Star without a sky. In the last chaotic days of World War II, five young Germans discover a Jewish boy hiding in a cellar and are torn over whether or not to turn him over to the Nazi authorities as the law demands.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The cookcamp. During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The quilt. During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
Fic Ree
Reeder, Carolyn. Foster's war. When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Keep smiling through. A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.
Fic Sar HS
Saroyan, William. The human comedy. Working as a telegraph messenger in California during World War II, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley gains an understanding of the world and an acceptance of his brother's death.
Fic Shr HS
Shreve, Anita. Resistance : a novel. Claire Daussois, sheltering refugees in her home in Belgium during World War II, falls passionately in love with a downed American pilot, despite the fact she is married and the relationship has no future.
Fic Sza HS
Szambelan-Strevinsky, Christine. Dark hour of noon. A young Polish girl becomes involved with anti-German underground activities during World War II.
Fic Tay
Taylor, Theodore. The cay. When the freighter they are traveling on is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Fic Ten HS
Ten Boom, Corrie. The hiding place. The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground.
Fic Tow
Townson, Hazel. The secret room. When Adam enters a secret cupboard at his school, he is transported through time to 1942, into the middle of a World War II air raid.
Fic Vos
Vos, Ida. Anna is still here. Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
Fic Wes HS
Westheimer, David. Von Ryan's return. After escaping from his Nazi captors during World War II, Colonel Joseph "Von" Ryan undertakes a dangerous mission as he attempts to expose a German plot that could destroy Allied forces in Italy.
Fic Wou HS
Wouk, Herman, 1915-. The Caine mutiny. A neurotic, despotic Navy captain loses command of his ship to his junior officers during World War II.
Fic Yol HS
Yolen, Jane. The devil's arithmetic. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Fic Zin HS
Zindel, Paul. The gadget. 1st ed. In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
Fic Zus HS
Zusak, Markus. The book thief. Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
