War Horse: (Movie Cover) by Scholastic Press $8.99
A new paperback with a gorgeous cover from the upcoming movie!In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles in France. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers...
The Book Thief (Definitions) by Definitions
A Way Through the Sea (The Young Underground #1) (Book 1) by Bethany House Publishers $5.99
On A Black Night In Denmark, Evil Prowled The Streets …. For eleven-year-old Peter Andersen and his twin sister Elise, living in the city of Helsingor, Denmark during World War II means German soldiers in the streets, German patrol boats in the harbor, and German fighter planes in the sky. Everyone is nervous, especially their Jewish friend Henrik and his parents. Before the invasion, no one...
Number the Stars by Sandpiper $6.99
A new paperback edition of Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award–winning classic. As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish...
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Thorndike Press $23.95
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence...
Suddenly One Spring by $2.99
For young Edmond Dumas, Napoleon's escape from Elba suddenly changes everything: his family taken, their business lost, his sister kidnapped. Edmond himself barely manages to escape, only to be captured as a spy.While Napoleon marches to Paris and then Waterloo to attack his enemies, Edmond must somehow regain his freedom in order to defeat his: or lose everything!
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by N.C. Wyeth $28.00
For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such...
Rilla of Ingleside by General Books LLC $26.25
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Prince Edward Island; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Orphans; Redheads; Young women; Family life; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction /...
A separate peace by
Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.A...
I Survived #4: I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Scholastic Paperbacks $4.99
70 years later, the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes to life for a new generation of readers!History's most terrifying moments are brought vividly to life in the action-packed fictional I SURVIVED series! Do you have what it takes to survive ... the bombing of Pearl Harbor?Eleven-year-old Danny Crane is alone on his favorite beach in Hawaii when the world is torn apart and World War II officially...