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• The Enigma Girls

  How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

  Fleming, Candace

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  During WWII, Bletchley Park, operating under the code name Station X, was run by teenaged girls who helped turn the tide of the war for the Allies with their hard work, their determination and, most importantly, their ability to keep a secret. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firebird

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Nastia is no traitor. She is a daring pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight to save the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems, and when the battles begin, secrets are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dark Skies Mystery

  a World War II Thriller

  Hicks, Deron R.

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  During WWII, while chasing down leads to report on the city's air raid program, aspiring journalist Henry Hamilton discovers a story far more dangerous--one that forces him to navigate enemy spies and saboteurs to expose the shocking truth.

• Heroes

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the “enemy” because his mother is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Enigma Game

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.

• Max in the Land of Lies

  Gidwitz, Adam,

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  Max Bretzfeld has become a British spy and is returning to Germany with two missions: to infiltrate the Funkhaus, the center of Nazi radio and propaganda; and to find his parents.

• Safiyyah's War

  Khan, Hiba Noor,

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  During the brutal Nazi occupation of Paris, Safiyyah feels powerless to help her Jewish friends and is drawn deep into the heart of a dangerous underground resistance with her father, where her bravery is put to the ultimate test.

• The Girl Who Fought Back

  Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  Greene, Joshua, 1950-

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  In 1940s Warsaw, Poland, when her family is deported to concentration camps, teenage Vladka joins the Jewish underground, a group determined to fight back against the Nazis, becoming a smuggler of secret messages and weapons out of the Warsaw Ghetto…Read moreRead more of this annotation