World War II Books for Children

HOME-FRONT AMERICA
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle

On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

Don't You Know There's a War On? by Avi

Summer of the War by Gloria Whelan

JAPANESE INTERMENT CAMP STORIES

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida

Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude

THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND ASIA
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Ngui Choi

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

THE WAR IN EUROPE
I Am David by Anne Holm

The Book Thief (young adult) by Markus Zusak

The Great Escape (young adult) by Paul Brickhill

THE HOLOCAUST
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Hiding Place (young adult) Corrie ten Boom

Maus: A Survivors Tale Parts I & II (graphic novel for young adult) by Art Spiegelman

NONFICTION/TRUE STORIES
Teens at War (Ten True Tales) by Allan Zuller

True Stories of The Second World War by Paul Dowswell