Gingersnap

8 best books like Gingersnap (Patricia Reilly Giff): Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, From Norvelt to Nowhere, Revolution, Don't You Know There's a War On?, Breaking Stalin's Nose, Runaway Twin, The Pigeon Has to Go to School

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Author	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN	0439353793

"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933

By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler...

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

Author	Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN	0375848185

“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred
 
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to...

From Norvelt to Nowhere

Author	Jack Gantos
ISBN	0374379947

This town is haunted by more than just ghosts . . .

When Jack dresses up as a notorious local murderer for Halloween, he thinks he’s found the perfect costume to scare away evil spirits. But when the real murderer returns and another old lady dies, he starts to worry that he might not be showing...

Revolution

Author	Deborah Wiles
ISBN	0545106079

It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded.  Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi, are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote.  They're calling it Freedom Summer.

Meanwhile, Sunny can't help but feel like her...

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

Author	Avi
ISBN	0380815443

World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's...

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Author	Eugene Yelchin
ISBN	0805092161

One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...

Runaway Twin

Author	Peg Kehret
ISBN	0525421777

A unique story of separated twins and the unexpected consequences of their reunion. Sunny Skyland longs to be reunited with her twin sister, Starr. With only an old photograph, taken a few days before the girls were separated at age three, to guide her, Sunny begins the cross-country journey that she...

The Pigeon Has to Go to School

Author

Mo Willems

I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .