Monica Hesse
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been two months since Edda returned from the frontlines of World War I, where she served as a "Hello Girl," facilitating wartime communications through switchboards with a series of daily changing codes. Now, she's a telephone operator for Bell Systems in Baltimore, trying to forget the mistake she made in France that cost thirty-four men their lives. Unfortunately, her past comes roaring back when an unknown caller begs her to tell the truth...