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The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace

10 best books like The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace (Lillian Boraks-Nemetz): Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, My Name is Seepeetza, Under a War-Torn Sky, Buddha Boy, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, Crows & Cards, Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but Could Still See, Torn from Troy, The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
AuthorRachel Corrie
ISBN0393065715
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in the...
My Name is Seepeetza
AuthorShirley Sterling
ISBN0888991657
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.



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Under a War-Torn Sky
AuthorL.M. Elliott
ISBN0786817534
When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France, the World War II pilot finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. In constant danger of discovery by German soldiers, Henry begins a remarkable journey to freedom. Relying on the kindness of strangers, Henry moves from town to town--traveling...
Buddha Boy
AuthorKathe Koja
ISBN0142402095
The kids at school call Jinsen “Buddha Boy”—he wears oversize tie-dyed dragon T- shirts, shaves his head, and always seems to be smiling. He’s clearly a freak. Then Justin is paired with him for a class project. As he gets to know Jinsen and his incredible artistic talent, Justin questions his...
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0823418537
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more....
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0763632910
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
Crows & Cards
AuthorJoseph Helgerson
ISBN0618883959
Three warnings for readers who hate surprises: 1. Beware of slivers, 2. and gamblers, 3. and aces.

Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice...
Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but Could Still See
AuthorAquanetta Gordon
When Ben Underwood became blind at the age of two, anyone would have thought he faced a life full of hardship and uphill challenges—a world full of things he’d never be able to see and activities he’d never be able to enjoy. But as far as his mom, Aquanetta Gordon, was concerned, nothing was impossible...
Torn from Troy
AuthorPatrick Bowman
ISBN1927401607
Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the...
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
AuthorPeter Goodchild
ISBN1580810578
I love the film Inherit the Wind (the 1960 version with Spencer Tracy) so I was pleased to find this play about the Scopes trial as one of the 2016 SYNC audiobook offerings. While I enjoyed this audiobook, it didn't come across as a play but more as a full cast recording of a book due to the exposition of a "narrator"...
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
AuthorMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch
ISBN0986949515
Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archive photos, Tuyet's story of the Saigon orphanage and her...
The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0374315531
When an accident leaves teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless, they come to live with their unknown and eccentric Uncle Marten on his private island. They soon discover that the island has a history as tragic as their own: it was once an air force training camp, led by a mad commander whose crazed...
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
AuthorNancy Springer
ISBN0399247815
3.5 stars
Audio version - narrated by the incredible Katherine Kellgren!!!

In this, the fifth installment in the Enola Holmes mystery series, Enola must help solve a mystery entangling her dear old landlady, Mrs. Tuppper. And the start of the mystery dates all the way back, some several...
The Grave
AuthorJames Heneghan
ISBN0374327653
Pulled into the past to discover his future
Abandoned in a shopping mall when he was a baby, thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has no family - he's spent his life shuffled from one rotten foster home to another. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he feels himself...
Miss Smithers
AuthorSusan Juby
ISBN0060515481
4.5 stars
Alice continues her coming of age story when she is entered into the Miss Smithers pageant as Miss Rod and Gun Club (ironic since her parents are vegetarians who oppose hunting, slaughterhouses, etc) in an even funnier book than the first in this trilogy: I can see why this one won an award...
Johnny Get Your Gun
AuthorJohn Dudley Ball
ISBN0316079456
Third in the series and far superior to the second. Virgil Tibbs is yet again a strong, opinionated, self controlled anchor for the story, but the characters revolving around him are a wonder. Few times have written words moved me to tears, but the absolutely heartbreaking description of the - by today's...
Pennies for Hitler
AuthorJackie French
ISBN0732292093
It′s 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils′ heads to see which of them have the most ′Aryan′- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi...
Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
AuthorRenata Calverley
ISBN1620401495
September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors-among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle...
Rabbit Ears
AuthorMaggie de Vries
ISBN1443416649
Kaya is adopted, multiracial, grieving the death of her father—and carrying a painful secret. Feeling ill at ease with her family and in her own skin, she runs away repeatedly, gradually disappearing into a life of addiction and sex work. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, escapes her own troubles with...
Marching Orders: The Untold Story Of World War II
AuthorBruce Lee
ISBN0306810360
Robert T. Crowley, an intelligence officer in World War II who later became a senior executive at the CIA, has called Marching Orders simply "one of the most important books ever published about World War II." At last available in paperback, the book reveals a host of previously untold stories about...
Oorlogsgeheimen
AuthorJacques Vriens
ISBN9047501195
Het Zuid-Limburgse dorp waar de elfjarige
Tuur woont, is bezet door de Duitsers. Tuur en zijn
buurmeisje Maartje vinden dit in het begin wel
spannend. Maar langzaam maar zeker komen de
kinderen erachter dat de bezetters in staat zijn tot de
ergste dingen.
De volwassenen...
Divided We Fall
AuthorTrent Reedy
ISBN0545543673
From the author of the acclaimed WORDS IN THE DUST: an action-packed YA novel set in a frighteningly plausible near future, about what happens when the States are no longer United.

Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the...
The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
AuthorWilliam B. Breuer
Before General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of "I shall return" and re-take the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers had been held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp for more than 33 months....
The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
AuthorChristiane Kohl
ISBN1590513797
Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. In this...
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