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2016., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Adventure Fic Wein Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to her new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
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[2016], Adolescent, Fulcrum Publishing Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the Southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
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By Avi, 1937-2018., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical fiction, Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree. The contest is on. The competition escalates from stealing uniform buttons on a wash line to looting the bodies of dead soldiers to setting up an ambush. Leading the charge is Jurek, who will do anything to be Button King. It's only Patryk who tries to stop Jurek's increasingly dangerous game before it leads to deadly consequences.
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-- Let us go swiming on doomsday2020., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Adventure Fic Anderson Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After his family is kidnapped, Abdi is forced to become a child soldier for Al Shabaab. Since his older brother is also part of the jihadist group, they trust him, but they don't know that he is also a spy for the Americans. He trains with the group, witnesses atrocities, and beginning to wonder if he's becoming like them. Eventually he escapes, but he still must reckon with his past.
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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical Fic Cameron Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
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2020., Adolescent, Razorbill Call No: Sci Fi Fic Onyebuchi Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: War Girls Volume: Book 2Summary Note: Now that the Biafran War is over, Ify is living in the Space Colonies as a high-ranking medical officer. Uzo, the young synth, helps Xifeng restore images and details of the war in order to preserve the memories of the lives lost in the war. But when a mysterious virus erupts on the Space Colonies, Ify must return to Earth in order to find a cure for the deadly disease.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GN 940.53 BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War. Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and families, as they escaped certain horror. Some children flee to England by train. Others are hidden from Nazis, sometimes in plain sight. Some are secreted away in attics and farmhouses. Still others make miraculous escapes, cresting over the snow-covered Pyrenees mountains to safety.
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By Norris, Kate2021., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Norris Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.