WWII

Huguette

By Cara Black - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Cara Black, author of the Aimée Leduc mystery series, has written a fast-paced, gritty thriller about a young woman’s fight to ...Read Review

The Sky Was My Blanket

By Uri Shulevitz - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultLiterary

In 1930, at the age of fifteen and a half, Yehiel Szulewicz leaves home in search of adventure and a life other than the ...Read Review

The Restoration Garden

By Sara Blaydes - Published 2025

Genres:

Saga

This is a family story of loss and tragic fallout which endures through generations of secrets and misunderstandings. Beginning in the present day, ...Read Review

The Guest Children

By Patrick Tarr - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Nine-year-old Frances Hawksby and her seven-year-old brother Michael hurry down smoke-filled streets, past raging fires, lumps of stone and charred wood, and the ...Read Review

The Lost Orphans (The Runaway Evacuees)

By Ellie Curzon - Published 2025

Genres:

Saga

The Lost Orphans is a heart-warming tale of a group of orphans in London during the Blitz. They team up to survive, aided ...Read Review

Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady: The Robin Miller Story

By Dianne Wolfer - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

In the 1940s, Robin Miller learns about aircraft and rides in many planes while growing up in Australia. She loves flying with her ...Read Review

Never Tear Us Apart

By Rowan Coleman - Published 2025

Genres:

Time-slip

This novel is a beautiful love story, set against the dramatic backdrops of Malta’s darkest hour during World War II and the ...Read Review

The World at Home

By Ginny Kubitz Moyer - Published 2025

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Inspired by the Nutcracker ballet, Moyer writes a love letter to her city, bringing 1944 wartime San Francisco to life from a woman’s ...Read Review

A Thread of Light

By Neema Shah - Published 2025

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From the cover and the blurb, one would expect this to be another story of the London Blitz, celebrating the fortitude, resilience and ...Read Review

Refugee: The Graphic Novel

By Alan Gratz - By Syd Fini (illus.) - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the graphic novel version of Refugee, which I reviewed for the HNR (August 2017). Three young protagonists flee war and violence: Josef ...Read Review