.jpg)
by: Aadya Narayanan
The books listed here are arranged chronologically based on their post date. Each book is linked to its blog review and a short excerpt from that review.
White Bird - R.J. Palacio
It starts off with a project, as a part of his family history school project. It ends with a story Grandmère has never told anyone before, of her life living during World War II and the Holocaust, of being Jewish.
2. The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani
For Nisha, writing in her diary to her mother at night of all the good and bad things that happened in 1947 India (not yet partitioned) helps Nisha know the mother she never had.
3. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
When Bruno's family move to Out-With camp 1943 from Berlin, he was bored until he met Shmuel. They were both born on the same day, April 15th 1934, but the only problem is, Shmuel lives on the other side of the barbed-wire fence, with hundreds of other sad-looking people.
4. Resistance - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Based in World War 2. Have you ever wondered how the Jews would receive food, medical supplies and ammunition guarded in a ghetto? How they would survive would be in the hands of a courier. A courier was a person in the Resistance who chose to bring food, supplies, forged identity papers and even sneak out people who could have a chance to live.
5. Prisoner B-3087 - Alan Gratz
Prisoner B-3087 like Refugee is also based on War. But this time it is real, and based on the story of Yanek or Jacob Gruener during World War II. It takes place in the year of 1939. He goes to Plaszow Concentration Camp, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Trzebnia Concentration Camp, Birkenau, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, and finally Dachau Concentration Camp. This is a sad story of how some people were treated during WW2, all because they believed in a certain religion.
6. Refugee - Alan Gratz
Refugee. This word alone brings sad thoughts. But, what is even sadder, is if you are one. War or Natural Disasters in your hometown. Author Alan Gratz, brings 3 fictional characters, Josef, Isabel and Mahmoud. All in different time periods and from different cultures and countries.
7. The House on Palmer Road and The House on Silat Road - Si Hoe SS & Sim EE Waun
A real life based book (autobiography), Si Hoe SS talks about her childhood during the Japanese Occupation in Singapore from 1942 to 1945, exactly 3 years and 7 months. Singapore was then called, Syonan-To (Light of the South in Japanese) She talks about her life as a child with real life incidents, with 9 siblings in the first book but 10 siblings in the second book. How do they live in their wooden house? And how do they survive in their house on Silat Road during a time of battle/war?
8. Unstoppable (75 Stories of Trailblazing Indian Women) - Gayathri Ponvannan
Unstoppable is a book of incredible women who helped India 🇮🇳 in some way. If you want to become a poet, writer, botanist, accountant or a freedom fighter etc. This is just the book for you. You will get to experience India in the 19th and 20th Century (1800s and 1900s) while India was under British Rule 🇬🇧, while there were specific rules for women.
9. Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Annemarie and Ellen, 10 year old best friends, live in the capital city of Denmark, Copenhagen during the time of WW2 (WORLD WAR II) and Hitler, Adolf Hitler. Things are very scary with soldiers on every corner of Copenhagen, curfews and food shortages. Taking on a dangerous mission for Ellen and all the Jews as Ellen was one.
10. Making Bombs For Hitler - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
When the Nazis shoot their mother and the Jews she had been hiding, the Nazi kidnap Lida, and Larissa, 8 and 5 year old girls from their Grandmother's house in Ukraine. The Nazi take them to Germany by cattle car along with other Ukrainian children to a slave labor camp. A few days later, on Lida's 9th Birthday, March 14th 1943, she and Larissa are seperated.
11. The War That Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
10 year old Ada has never been out of her room, let alone the flat for as long as she can remember because of the humiliation it would bring to her cruel Mum, just because she has a clubfoot. Ada says in the book, "My bad foot's a long way from my brain." So when her little brother, Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada joins him.
Happy reading!
Kommentare