As the waltz was ending by Emma macalik butterworth. It’s an autobiography but it’s really good. About a girl from Vienna that was in the state ballet. And it just shows how her world was effected by the war and the depression
White Rose black Forrest. The devil’s arithmetic. Number the stars. The zookeepers wife. One eye laughing the other weeping. All but my life. Malka. Maus. Anne Frank’s diary.
If he likes airplanes–The First and the Last, Adoph Galland, Wing Leader, Johnnie Johnson, Bomber Pilot,Leonard Cheshire, Spitfire Women of WWII, Giles Whittell, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Capt Ted W. Lawson, Samurai, Saburo Sakai, The Other Battle: Luftwaffe Aces vs Bomber Command, Peter Hinchliffe, Burial in the Clouds, Hiroyuki Agawa, Just Another Trip, Martin Whittle—this should entertain him for a while.
Auschwitz A New History , by Lawrence Keyes
Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Following
Unbroken
Number the stars
Island 731 by Jeremy Robinson is a more modern science fiction book that uses the real life WWII era Japanese Unit 731 as its base.
Lost Meets Aliens
Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. And Girl in the Blue Coat.
Love Ruta Sepetys!
The Last Timekeepers and the Dark Secret by Sharon Ledwith
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by EB Sledge, Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Milkweed, the Devils Arithmetic
I loved Devil’s Arithmetic when I was in school. It’s one of the books that really stuck with me from my childhood.
I have only seen the movie, but I knew it was a book. I just read Milkweed about a month ago.
Code name Verity and the Alice Network
Diary of Anne Frank
Boy at War
Pax
Adolf Hitler, by John Toland.
Ooh I’m spoiled for choice!!
The War Outside by Monica Hesse.
The Book Thief.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Salt to the Sea, The Book Thief, Between Shades of Gray, Mapping the Bones
Number the Stars
Carrie’s War
Girl or boy? A girl might enjoy Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (a romance/spy story set in the Blitz).
Prisoner B3087, Night Divided, Refugee, & Project 1065
My 13 year olds recommendation.
Book thief. ? war horse ?
The Machine Gunners / HMS Ulysses / also Michael Ondaatje’s new novel Warlight is a good one too
Boy on the Wooden box..
Night..
Boy in Striped Pajamas
Salt to the Sea
Diary of Anne Frank.
As the waltz was ending by Emma macalik butterworth. It’s an autobiography but it’s really good. About a girl from Vienna that was in the state ballet. And it just shows how her world was effected by the war and the depression
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Book Thief.
Code Talker
Night by Elie Wiesel
My 12 year old son really enjoyed this book.
🙂 https://www.amazon.ca/Making-Hitler-Marsha-Forchuk-Skrypuch/dp/1443107301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539538730&sr=8-1&keywords=making+bombs+for+hitler&dpID=51JK9Z9o6UL&preST=_SY264_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
Loves the war ?
Young readers edition of Unbroken
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107301.A_Town_Like_Alice
If I should die before I wake by Han Nolan, one of my absolute favorite historical fiction books… it’s for Y/A
@Vanessa you got some taste ?
@Akram thanks
The Baker’s Secret and Diary of Anne Frank. Both about teenagers during the war.
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Anne frank’s diary, boy in the striped pajamas, book thief
The Book Thief. Salt to the Sea.
The book thief
The book thief
Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Boy in the striped pajamas
I haven’t read the entire thread, but the Librarian of Auschwitz is good and based on a true story.
I recommend Nimitz by E.B. Potter. Not only an excellent biography of the great Admiral, but also a concise, single volume account of the Pacific War.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1211549
Torn thread by Anne issac
White Rose black Forrest. The devil’s arithmetic. Number the stars. The zookeepers wife. One eye laughing the other weeping. All but my life. Malka. Maus. Anne Frank’s diary.
The shack
@Diane I feel like The Shack is not about war. And too deep for a child.
Captain America ?
Boy At War trilogy by Harry Mazer
I just bought a bunch of new books and cannot wait to start reading them….BUT I am determined to finish the one I’m reading now first….
I’m sorry I misunderstood , didn’t read the question right .
The diary series by Kathryn Lasky
The Hiding Place
Lilac Girls
Stones in the Water by Donna Jo Napoli
If he likes airplanes–The First and the Last, Adoph Galland, Wing Leader, Johnnie Johnson, Bomber Pilot,Leonard Cheshire, Spitfire Women of WWII, Giles Whittell, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Capt Ted W. Lawson, Samurai, Saburo Sakai, The Other Battle: Luftwaffe Aces vs Bomber Command, Peter Hinchliffe, Burial in the Clouds, Hiroyuki Agawa, Just Another Trip, Martin Whittle—this should entertain him for a while.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and War as I Knew It.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Author Walter Myers. Several titles. Also The Book Thief (forgot author). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
Author Walter Myers. Several titles.
The Book Thief
Try Ken Follet he as a couple ww2 spy books .
Diary of Anne Frznki
Guns Up!
HMS Ulysses and The Guns of Navarone by Alistair McLean.
“Death is my Trade” Robert Merle
Not sure if it is WW2 (as i have yet to read it) but Salt to the Sea is set in war time
Yes it’s ww2, and a very beautiful book. One of my favorites I’ve read this year.
A way through the sea
To Hell and Back. The Audie Murphy story