Bicycle spy by McDonough, Yona Zeldis 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03546 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - France - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Family life - France - Fiction Jews - France - Fiction Bicycles - Fiction Adventure fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.

Rescue by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 676469 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 740

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - France - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - France - Fiction Ciphers - Fiction Perche (France) - History|y20th century - Fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: 657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous with fugitives hiding on their property and Nazis on their doorstep hunting the fugitives.

Village of scoundrels by Preus, Margi 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 731492 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.8 MG F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - France - Fiction Refugees - Fiction Jews - France - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - France - Fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.

War stories by Korman, Gordon 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 530009 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Great-grandfathers - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Heroes - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Fiction Secrets - Fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.

War stories by Korman, Gordon 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 530020 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.7 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Great-grandfathers - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Heroes - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Fiction Secrets - Fiction France - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.