Fiction - Social Themes

Christmas Day, 1914 My dear sister Janet, It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts -- yet I could not sleep m...

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape th...

In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after sh...

A child and her family take in refugees during the Korean War in this poignant picture book about courage and what it really means to care for yo...

THE OCCUPATION. THE RESISTANCE. THE WORLD AT WAR. On May 10, 1940, the Nazis begin their march across Europe, and within weeks, France has falle...

When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero.There's a memory th...

A young boy and his father visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780395629772 Media Type: Paperback(Reissue) Publisher: ...

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII...

A beautiful, bittersweet WWI romance lights up an English village at Christmas with harrowing secrets, love lost and found, and the breathtaking ...

The next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne's Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching...

Notes From Your BooksellerFor any young reader interested in historical fiction, Number the Stars is a WWII inspired novel that follows a young g...

History is made one brave act at a time. Henny has grown up with her father's boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the ...

Jenni L. Walsh delivers a gripping story about a real-life youth resistance group in World War II Germany, and about the power of thinking for your...

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII.Th...

A moving and ultimately hopeful look at what we hold most dear -- and carry with us -- when we are forced to flee our homes because of war. When th...

From the author of The Wave comes a poignant and timely novel about a group of seventh graders who are brought together--and then torn apart--by an...

A powerful look at an unforgettable era in history "If we take these children, we can never betray them, no matter what the Nazis do." During the ...

Every Life Makes a StoryDjo has a story: Once he was one of "Titid's boys," a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election team, fighti...

Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming ...

Notes From Your BooksellerPowerful and well-written, Refugee interweaves the stories of three children, living through different crises, as they ...

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OV...