Historical Novels

Gold Star Sister.

By Claire Rudolf Murphy

4th Grade and up

Is about a young girl named Carrie who's grandmother is sick with cancer and is going to move in with Carrie and her family. In the process of helping Gram (Carrie's Grandmother) move out Carrie comes across a box. Being curious Carrie looks inside the box inside there are letters to and from an American Soldier and Gram. Who is he and why was the family never told of him.

The Silver Sword (Previous titled Escape from Warsaw)

By Ian Serriallier

4th Grade and up

The Silver Sword is about three children that live in Poland during World War II. There parents were taken by the Nazis and they are out to find there parents in Switzerland. The three refuges encounter many funny, scary, and amazing things on there journey to Switzerland by foot.

The Devils Arithmetic
By ?

5th Grade and up

It's Passover, and it's Hannah's turn to open the door for Elijah. But when she opens the door something amazing happens, she's transported to a time of great war. World War II, to be exact, and, as Hannah finds out the hard way, it wasn't exactly a great time for Jews. In the time that she is caught up in the war, she makes many friends, and loses almost as many. Find out what happens to Hannah in this magnificent, but tragic, story.

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