Quick view Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Choke" and the cult classic "Fight Club" comes a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for modern times. View Details
Quick view Doomsday Book by Connie Willis For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. Her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W. Campbell Award. Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the... View Details
Quick view And I Darken by Kiersten White In this first book in a trilogy, a girl child is born to Vlad Dracula, in Transylvania, in 1435--at first rejected by her father and always ignored by her mother, she will grow up to be Lada Dragwlya, a vicious and brutal princess, destined to rule and... View Details
Quick view The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Hannah is tired of hearing about the Nazis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. A girl named Rivka befriends her,... View Details
Quick view Fire in the Hills by Donna Jo Napoli Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war. View Details
Quick view The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. View Details
Quick view House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury 1943, one year after the end of Under the Blood-Red Sun, Tomi s Papa and Grandpa are still under arrest, and the paradise of Hawaii now lives in fear waiting for another attack, while trying to recover from Pearl Harbor. As a Japanese American, Tomi and... View Details
Quick view Salt to the Sea hc by Ruta Sepetys As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull View Details
Quick view For Freeedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs. View Details
Quick view Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys n 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the... View Details
Quick view The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 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. View Details
Quick view Heroes by Robert Cormier Eighteen-year-old Frances returns home from World War II without a face, having fallen on a grenade. Now, with gun in hand, Francis is looking for a man he once admired and respected--a man who destroyed his life. View Details
