WW2 and Thrillers

 

WW2 Drama

 

Harry Mazer

The Last Mission (1979)

 

Bette Greene

The Summer of My German Soldier  (1973)

 

Uri Orlev

The Island on bird street (1981)

 

Morris Gleitzman

Felix and Zelda

1. Once (2006)

2. Then (2009)

3. Now (2010)

4. After (2012)

 

Markus Zusak

The Book Thief   (2006)

 

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008)

 

Put Out the Light (2010) Terry Deary

 

Shirley Hughes

Hero on a Bicycle (2012)

 

Elizabeth Wein   

Code Name Verity

1. Code Name Verity (2012)

2. Rose Under Fire (2013)

 

 

Prisoner B-3087 (2013) Alan Gratz

 

Laura L Sullivan

Love by the Morning Star (2014) World War 2

 

 

Historical

 

Katherine Paterson

The Master Puppeteer (1976) H

The Day of the Pelican (2009)

 

Barbara Smucker

Underground to Canada  (1979)

 

Michelle Magorian  (1947 - )

Goodnight Mister Tom (1981)

Back Home (1984)

Just Henry (2008)

 

 

Michael Morpurgo

War Horse

1. War Horse (1982)

2. Farm Boy (1997)

 

 

James Lincoln Collier

My Brother Sam Is Dead (1984) (with Christopher Collier)

 

Liza Ketchum

Newsgirl (2009)

 

Cynthia Defelice

Novels

Weasel (1990) Historical
Bringing Ezra Back (2006) Sequal to Weasel

 

Avi

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)

 

Crispin   (2002)

Crispin: At the Edge of the World  (2006)

Crispin: The End of Time  (2010)

 

Sook Nyul Choi

Year of Impossible Goodbyes (1991)

 

Celia Barker Lottridge

The Wind Wagon (1995)

Home Is Beyond the Mountains (2010)

 
Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust (1997) Newbury (1998)

 

Diane Lee Wilson

Black Storm Comin' (2005)

Firehorse (2006)

Tracks (2012)

 

Mary Downing Hahn

 Promises to the Dead (2000)

 

 

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever, 1793  by (2000)

 

 

 

 

Gennifer Choldenko

Tales from Alcatraz

1. Al Capone Does My Shirts (2004)

2. Al Capone Shines My Shoes (2009)

3. Al Capone Does My Homework (2013)

 

Meg Rosoff

How I live now   (2004)

 

Richard Adams

Daniel (2006)

 

 

 

 

John Smelcer

The Trap (2006)

The Great Death (2009)

Edge of Nowhere (2010)

 

 

Rebecca Rupp

How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables (2011)

 

 

James L. Swanson

Chasing Lincoln's Killer (2009)

 

 

Rodman Philbrick

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (2009)

 

Rick Bowers

Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement (2009)

Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate (2012)

 

Margi Preus

Heart of a Samurai  (2010)

 

 

Jane Leslie Conly

Murder Afloat   (2010)

 

Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer  HISTORICAL

1. One Crazy Summer (2010)

2. P.S. Be Eleven (2013)

 

 

Thanhha Lai

Inside Out and Back Again (2011)

 

Krista Russell

Chasing the Nightbird (2011)

The Other Side of Free (2013)

 

BOXERS and SAINTS. (2013) Written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang

 

Bio and tips on writing.

 

Peg Kehret

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (1996)

Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays (1999)

Five Pages a Day: A Writer's Journey (2002)

Animals Welcome (2012)

 

 

E L Konigsburg

 Talk, Talk (1995) A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups

 

Richard Peck (1934 - )

Anonymously Yours (1991)

Love and Death At the Mall (1994) Teaching And Writing for the Literate Young

Invitations to the World (2002) Teaching And Writing for Young

 

Bill Peet

Bill Peet: An Autobiography (1980)

 

Sid Fleischman

Non fiction

Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996)

Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini (2006)

Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World (2010)

 

Tales from the Homeplace: Adventures of a Texas Farm Girl (1999) Vivian Vande Velde

 

Thrillers

Lois Duncan

Five Were Missing (1966) aka Ransom

Don't Look behind You (1989)

 

 

Peg Kehret

The Secret Journey (1999)

Escaping the Giant Wave (2003)

Stolen Children (2008)

Runaway Twin (2009)

 

 

Robert Muchamore  (1972 - )

CHERUB

1. The Recruit (2004)

2. Class A (2004) aka The Dealer

3. Maximum Security (2005)

4. The Killing (2005)

5. Divine Madness (2006)

6. Man Vs Beast (2006)

7. The Fall (2007)

8. Mad Dogs (2007)

9. The Sleepwalker (2008)

10. The General (2008)

11. Brigands M.C. (2009)

12. Shadow Wave (2010)

Dark Sun (2008)

Recruit / Class A (omnibus) (2008)

 

Henderson's Boys

1. The Escape (2009)

2. Eagle Day (2009)

3. Secret Army (2010)

4. Grey Wolves (2011)

5. The Prisoner (2012)

6. One Shot Kill (2012)

7. Scorched Earth (2013)

Hendersons Boys Box Set Vol 1 & 2 (2010)

 

CHERUB 2

1. People's Republic (2011)

2. Guardian Angel (2012)

 

 

 

Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink & Caution (2011)

                                           

Ally Carter.

 

Heist Society

Heist Society

1. Heist Society (2010)

2. Uncommon Criminals (2011)

3. Perfect Scoundrels (2013)

Double Crossed (2013)

 

 

Jack Heath

Ashley Arthur

1. Money Run (2008)

2. Hit List (2012)

3. Crossover (2013)

 

 

Andrew Klavan

Homelander

1. The Last Thing I Remember (2009)

2. The Long Way Home (2010)

3. The Truth of the Matter (2010)

4. The Final Hour (2011)

 

Mary E. Pearson

The Jenna Fox Chronicles

The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008)

The Fox Inheritance (2011)

The Invented Life of Locke Jenkins (2013)

 

Ridley Pearson
Steel Trapp
1. The Challenge (2008)
2. The Academy (2010)