Lisa's War
10 best books like Lisa's War (Carol Matas): No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, A Boy No More, Star of Fear, Star of Hope, Man from the Other Side, No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn, The Sky Is Falling, Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, As the Waltz Was Ending, Hope's Crossing
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
| Author | Anita Lobel |
| ISBN | 0380732858 |
The beloved Caldecott Honor artist now recounts a tale of vastly different kind -- her own achingly potent memoir of a childhood of flight, imprisonment, and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland. Anita Lobel was barely five when the war began and sixteen by the time she came to America from Sweden,...
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 0439699460 |
"WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY FATHER?...
THE JAPS KILLED HIM "
Adam Pelko witnessed something horrible: the sinking of the USS "Arizona" during the attack on Pearl Harbor -- with his father aboard. Since then, Adam and his mother and sister have moved to California, where they are trying...
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
| Author | Jo Hoestlandt |
| ISBN | 0802775888 |
Set in France, during the Nazi occupation of World War II, a gentile child named Helen recalls the mounting persecution of her Jewish friend. She wonders why does her best friend, Lydia, have to wear a yellow star? Why are people in hiding and using strange names? What is Lydia afraid of?
Touching...
| Author | Uri Orlev |
| ISBN | 0140370889 |
Marek and his stepfather enter the sewers of Poland, in search of, finding money and food for Jews. It is revealed, to Marek that he is half Jewish after he is caught, by his mother, stealing money from a Jew in the ghetto. His whole world changes as this 14-year secret unfolds. He begins to question and distrust...
| Author | Julie Lawson |
| ISBN | 0439969301 |
Charlotte struggles to find her twin brother after the rest of her family is killed in the tragic Halifax explosion.
No Safe Harbour is set in the months before and after the December 6, 1917 Halifax explosion, which was the largest man-made blast in history until the dropping of the atomic bomb...
| Author | Kit Pearson |
| ISBN | 0140341897 |
It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler’s army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downstairs. Then Norah is told that she and her brother, Gavin, are being sent to Canada. The voyage across the ocean is exciting, but at the end of it Norah is...
| Author | Ilse Koehn |
| ISBN | 0140342907 |
I'm not sure when I read this only that it was before I read the diary of anne frank & it moved me in an unusually stark & horrific way. I was so distraught by this book that I read pre-7th grade, that I made my Daddy read it as I considered him an expert on all things German & wanted him to tell me it...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0440418127 |
Johnny's dad, a toymaker, sends his son letters and carved soldiers from the front in WWI. When Johnny's toy battles seem to foretell his dad's real battles, Johnny fears he controls his father's fate. A poignant narrative of war and its effects on the people who live through it. Ages 10-14.
Ten-year-old...
| Author | Emma Macalik Butterworth |
| ISBN | 0590332104 |
This is an autobiography / memoir of a young girl growing up in Vienna. The time span covers Emmy from about age six to seventeen. As a child she and her family had a lovely apartment and she enjoyed the city’s many parks and coffee shops where she would get a treat of a rich mocha topped with whipped cream...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Julie Johnston |
| ISBN | 0887766498 |
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.
One fateful summer day her brother...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0060085606 |
For one family the traditional Hanukkah celebration has a deeper meaning. Amidst the food and the festivities, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose begin their story -- the one they tell each year. They pass on to each generation a tale of perseverance during the darkest hours of the Holocaust, and the strength...
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0140375376 |
Sonia Levitin has written excellent books. Journey to America is a classic of Jewish historical fiction. This is not excellent, by any means. It is religious, which I am not comfortable with. It is a poor story. You are never altogether sure how the two ended up with each other. There is too much back and...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0142301426 |
From one of Canada's best loved children's writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a message...
| Author | Ida Vos |
| ISBN | 0395653681 |
Sigh...and the Summer Curse continues.
Even aside from the bland writing and unimpressive plot, it still would've been an okay story if Anna hadn't become so unlikeable by the end of it. The way she bullied that poor innocent boy, Stefan, was disgusting. And not much is said about it. This isn't...
| Author | Johanna Reiss |
| ISBN | 0064470423 |
Holland, 1945 - World War II has finally ended. For thirteen-year-old Annie de Leeuw and her sister Sini, almost three years of hiding from the Germans in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse have also ended. Saying good-bye to the courageous family who hid them is very difficult. And Annie finds that...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0141306009 |
When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a brutal work camp,...
| Author | Sharon Stewart |
| ISBN | 0439961033 |
The first book in a new series that picks up where the Royal Diaries left off! Previously published as The Dark Tower, this riveting novel is written as the diary of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who was imprisoned during the French Revolution....
Charlie Wilcox, a Newfoundlander, is interested in one thing only: going to sea, just like his father and uncles. He'll make his family proud. His parents have different plans for him, however: they want him to go to university. Humiliated, Charlie sets out to prove he can measure up to the men in his family,...
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 1570915474 |
4.5 stars. When Poland is invaded a boy is seperated from his family.
Like a length of kindling in one stroke, they split
He feels he knows his parents are dead. Happy memories keep him going, and his harmonica, a gift from his father he miraculously kept concealed. One night a guard hears...
| Author | Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren |
| ISBN | 1467711942 |
The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.
It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0850529883 |
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp known as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the...
Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776
| Author | Laurie Calkhoven |
| ISBN | 0525421440 |
Twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott cheered when the Sons of Liberty dumped English tea into Boston Harbor. Then King George sent his soldiers to take over Boston and its port. Now Daniel's home is a city under siege. When his father slips away to join the rebels, Daniel works in the family tavern and eavesdrops...
