Quick Picks
From the AADL Youth Collection

THE HOME FRONT:
Growing Up in America During World War II

Compiled by the Youth Services Librarians

NOTE: This list appears as part of the larger "Rosie to Roosevelt" series sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library during October and November 1998.

E = Picture book

J = Appropriate for elementary readers

Y = Appropriate for middle school readers

Fiction

Aaron, Chester. Alex, Who Won His War. Walker, 1991.
Y Fiction

Avi."Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?" Orchard, 1992.
Y Fiction

Banks, Sara Harrell. Under the Shadow of Wings. Atheneum, 1997.
Y Fiction

Brancato, Robin F. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. Knopf, 1975.
Y Fiction

Bunin, Sherry. Dear Great American Writers School. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Y Fiction

Cormier, Robert. Other Bells for Us to Ring. Delacorte, 1990.
J Fiction

Cutler, Jane. My Wartime Summers. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994.
J Fiction

Enright, Elizabeth. The Four Story Mistake. Henry Holt, 1942.
J Fiction

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's Crossing. Delacorte, 1997.
J Fiction

Green, Connie Jordan. The War at Home. Margaret K. McElderry, 1989.
Y Fiction

Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier. Dial, 1973.
Y Fiction

Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on the Cracks. Clarion, 1991.
Y Fiction

Hall, Donald. The Farm Summer, 1942. Dial, 1994.
E HAL

Herman, Charlotte. A Summer on Thirteenth Street. Dutton, 1991.
Y Fiction

Hest, Amy. Love You, Soldier. Four Winds, 1991.
J Fiction

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. Aloha Means Come Back: The Story of a World War II Girl. Silver Burdett, 1991.
J Fiction

Hotze, Sollace. Summer Endings. Clarion, 1991.
Y Fiction

Houston, Gloria. But No Candy. Philomel, 1992.
E HOU

Kudlinski, Kathleen. Pearl Harbor is Burning! A Story of World War II. Viking Penguin, 1991.
J Fiction

Lee, Milly. Nim and the War Effort. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
J Fiction

Levitin, Sonia. Annie's Promise. Atheneum, 1993.
Y Fiction

Marko, Katherine. Hang Out the Flag. Macmillan, 1992.
J Fiction

Means, Florence Crannell. The Moved-Outers. Houghton Mifflin, 1945.
Y Fiction

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low, 1993.
J Fiction

Oneal, Zibby. War Work. Viking, 1971.
J Mystery

Oughton, Jerrie. The War in Georgia. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Y Fiction

Paulsen, Gary. The Cookcamp. Orchard, 1991.
J Fiction

Ray, Deborah Kogan. My Daddy Was a Soldier: A World War II Story. Holiday House, 1990.
J Fiction

Reeder, Carolyn. Foster's War. Scholastic, 1998.
Y Fiction

Rinaldi, Ann. Keep Smiling Through. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1996.
Y Fiction

Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-Red Sun. Delacorte, 1994.
Y Fiction

Savin, Marcia. The Moon Bridge. Scholastic, 1992.
Y Fiction

Taylor, Theodore. The Children's War. Doubleday, 1971.
J Fiction

Thesman, Jean. Molly Donnelly. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Y Fiction

Tripp, Valerie. Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story. Pleasant Company, 1986.
J Fiction (American Girls Collection)

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. Philomel, 1993.
J Fiction

van Stockum, Hilda. The Mitchells: Five for Victory. Viking, 1945.
J Fiction

Willis, Patricia. A Place to Claim as Home. Clarion, 1991.
Y Fiction

Nonfiction

Krull, Kathleen. V Is for Victory. Knopf, 1995.
J 940.53 Kr

Molly's Craft Book. Pleasant Company, 1994.
J 745.509 Mo

Stein, R. Conrad. The Home Front (World at War). Children's Press, 1986.
J 940.53 St

Stevenson, James. Don't You Know There's a War Going On? Greenwillow, 1992.
J 921 Stevenson

Whitman, Sylvia. V Is for Victory: The American Home Front during World War II. Lerner, 1993.
Y 940.53 Wh

Waters, Marjorie. The Victory Garden Kids' Book. Globe Pequot Press, 1994.
J 635 Wa

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