A Long Walk To Water
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 778
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: dut, salva, refugees, survival skills, water, sudan, blacks, survival, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, war stories, large type books, war fiction [X], biographical fiction [X]
Schindler's List
Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler risks his life and his fortune to save over one thousand Jews from extermination during World War II by employing them in his crockery factory.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 75
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1150
subjects: schindler, oskar, righteous gentiles in the holocaust, world war, 1939-1945, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), holocaust, 1933-1945, war stories, biographical fiction, schindler, oskar, 1908-1974 fiction, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945) fiction, world war, 1939-1945 fiction, closed captioning, closed caption video recordings, motion pictures, holocaust, 1939-1945, videodiscs, dvd-video discs, film adaptations, feature films, war films, historical films, war fiction [X], biographical fiction [X], historical fiction
The Tortoise And The Soldier
"As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1914-1918, soldiers, turtles, juvenile fiction / biographical / european, juvenile fiction / historical / military & wars, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction, war fiction [X]
Beneath A Scarlet Sky
In World War II Italy, seventeen-year-old Pino Lella is thrust into the war when his home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: italy, germany, world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction, war fiction [X], romance fiction, lella, giuseppe, war stories, biographical fiction [X]
The Diamond Eye
Known as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: pavlychenko, l?i?udmyla mykha?livna, roosevelt, eleanor, snipers, world war, 1939-1945, war stories, spy stories, historical fiction, war fiction [X], spy fiction, biographical fiction [X]
Susanna's Midnight Ride
"The American colonies are embroiled in a struggle for freedom. Susanna Bolling, a brave and resourceful teenage girl, craves independence.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: virginia, united states, teenage girls, children and war, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X], war fiction [X]