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Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

10 best books like Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America (Joan Wehlen Morrison): Keeper of the Lost Cities, Nightfall, Lodestar, Everblaze, Exile, Flashback, Every Shiny Thing, I Love You, Michael Collins, Neverseen, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

Keeper of the Lost Cities
AuthorShannon Messenger
ISBN1442445939
Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain.

Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers...
Nightfall
AuthorShannon Messenger
ISBN1481497421
Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated.

The Neverseen have had their victories—but the battle is far from over. It’s time to change tactics. Make sacrifices. Reexamine everything. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies.

All...
Lodestar
AuthorShannon Messenger
Dark schemes unfold--and Sophie's loyalty is pushed to the limit--in this thrilling fifth book in the best-selling KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES SERIES.

Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities--but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world, and the...
Everblaze
AuthorShannon Messenger
ISBN1442445998
Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.

Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers—before they come after her again.

But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war,...
Exile
AuthorShannon Messenger
ISBN1442445963
Sophie Foster thought she was safe. Settled into her home at Havenfield, surrounded by friends, and using her unique telepathic abilities to train Silveny--the first female alicorn ever seen in the Lost Cities--her life finally seems to be coming together.

But Sophie's kidnappers are still...
Flashback
AuthorShannon Messenger
ISBN1481497456
In this unforgettable seventh book, Sophie must let the past and present blur together, because the deadliest secrets are always the ones that get erased.

Sophie Foster doesn’t know what—or whom—to believe. And in a game with this many players, the worst mistake can be focusing on the...
Every Shiny Thing
AuthorCordelia Jensen
In this beautifully constructed middle-grade novel, told half in prose and half in verse, Lauren prides herself on being a good sister, and Sierra is used to taking care of her mom. When Lauren’s parents send her brother to a therapeutic boarding school for teens on the autism spectrum and Sierra moves...
I Love You, Michael Collins
AuthorLauren Baratz-Logsted
ISBN0374303851
It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to Neil Armstrong ("So cute!") and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin...
Neverseen
AuthorShannon Messenger
Sophie Foster is on the run—but at least she's not alone.

Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. They still have doubts about the shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. And as they settle into their new...
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
AuthorAlan Gratz
ISBN0545880165
Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.

World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.

But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies.

Michael...
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805089365
Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.

As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee...
One-Handed Catch
AuthorMary Jane Auch
ISBN0805079009
Not even losing his hand can keep Norm from trying out for the baseball team

What would life be like with only one hand? That's exactly what eleven-year-old Norm finds out when he loses his left hand in an accident at his family's store. It's July 4, 1946. World War II has ended, and life is getting...
The Hidden Summer
AuthorGin Phillips
ISBN0803738366
After a falling out between their mothers, 13-year-old best friends Nell and Lydia are forbidden from seeing each other for the whole summer. Nell struggles with the thought of not only losing her best friend, but also losing the only person in whom Nell finds refuge from the difficulties she faces at...
The Dogs of Winter
AuthorBobbie Pyron
ISBN0545399300
A small boy, a cruel city, and the incredible dogs who save him.

Based on a true story!

When Ivan's mother disappears, he's abandoned on the streets of Moscow, with little chance to make it through the harsh winter. But help comes in an unexpected form: Ivan is adopted by a pack of dogs,...
Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words
AuthorRegine Stokke
ISBN1936976013
Regine Stokke could have just given up. Instead, she started a blog and turned her fight against leukemia into a source of vitality, power, and beauty. Through music, photography, writing, and time spent with loved ones, she made the most of her life. She was a typical teenager with an amazing will to...
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
AuthorShyima Hall
ISBN1442481684
An inspiring and compelling memoir from a young woman who lost her childhood to slavery—and built a new life grounded in determination and justice.

Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her...
The Year I Didn't Eat
AuthorSamuel Pollen
ISBN1999863356
"Some days are normal. Some days, everything is OK, and I eat three square meals, pretty much, even if those squares are ridiculously small squares.

Some days, I can almost pretend there’s nothing wrong."

Max is 14, and anorexic. His eating disorder has pretty much taken over his...
The Island at the End of Everything
AuthorKiran Millwood Hargrave
ISBN1910002763
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017

From the author of the bestselling tale The Girl of Ink & Stars comes a beautiful new adventure about finding your way home.

There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans...
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