20th Century: 1940-1959

 

 

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Adventurous Life of Winston Churchill
by Geoffrey Bocca
from Julian Messner
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Ark, The
by Margot Benary-Isbert
2021 Revision from Purple House Press
for 3rd-10th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Battle for Iwo Jima
Landmark #118
by Robert Leckie
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Battle for the Atlantic
Landmark #87
by Jay Williams, maps by Richard Edes Harrison
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Battle of Britain
World Landmark #10
by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated by Clayton Knight
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Battle of the Bulge
Landmark #114
by John Toland
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Battle of the Bulge
by Stephen W. Sears
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
for 3rd-8th grade
in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
Bomb
by Steve Sheinkin
First Edition from Flash Point
for 5th-9th grade
2013 Newbery Honor Book, 2013 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
$24.99
Carrie's War
by Nina Bawden
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Carrier War in the Pacific
by Stephen W. Sears
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
for 4th-8th grade
in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
Cats in Krasinski Square
by Karen Hesse
1st edition from Scholastic Press
for 2nd-5th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Charles A. Lindbergh
by James Cross Giblin
from Clarion Books
Biography for 5th-8th grade
1998 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Charles Lindbergh
A Discovery Book
by David R. Collins
from Garrard Publishing Company
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Christmas After All
Dear America
by Kathryn Lasky
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
Cold War Correspondent
by Nathan Hale
from Amulet Books
for 2nd-6th grade
in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC)
$15.99
Combat Nurses of World War II
Landmark #116
by Wyatt Blassingame, illustrated by Gil Walker
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Commandos of World War II
World Landmark #61
by Hodding Carter, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
D-Day
by Michael Noble, illustrated by Alexander Mostov
from Wide Eyed Editions
for 3rd-7th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$17.99
D-Day: A Day That Changed America
by Shelley Tanaka, illustrated by David Craig
from Hyperion Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E)
Desert War in North Africa
by Stephen W. Sears
from Harper & Row
for 4th-8th grade
in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
DK Eyewitness: World War II
by Simon Adams
from DK Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
DK Eyewitness: World War II
by Simon Adams
from DK Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
$9.99
Dragon Tales
by Celia R. Brines
3rd edition from Pacific Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
1st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press
for 3rd-6th grade
1999 Caldecott Honor Book
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Early Sunday Morning
Dear America
by Barry Denenberg
from Scholastic Inc.
Fictional historical journal for 3rd-6th grade
in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
Elephant in the Garden
by Michael Morpurgo
from Feiwel & Friends
for 5th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
European Land Battles 1939-1943
by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, Col. U.S. Army, Ret.
from Franklin Watts
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Faraway Island
by Annika Thor
from Delacorte Press
for 5th-7th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
First Book of World War II
by Louis L. Snyder
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-6th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
Flying Tigers
Landmark #105
by John Toland
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Forging Freedom
by Hudson Talbott
from Putnam Juvenile
for 3rd-6th grade
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
From Casablanca to Berlin
Landmark #112
by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Landmark #94
by Bruce Bliven
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Golden Book History of the United States Volume 10
by Earl Schenck Miers
from Golden Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Golden Book History of the United States Volume 9
by Earl Schenck Miers
from Golden Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Good Fight
by Stephen Ambrose
from Atheneum
WWII Historical Reference for 4th-9th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II
Landmark #96
by Robert D. Loomis, foreword by General Robert Lee Scott, Jr., illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Guadalcanal Diary
Landmark #55
by Richard Tregaskis, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific
Landmark #49
by Oscar Lewis, illustrated by Stephen Medvey
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Hiding Place - A Graphic Novel
by Corrie Ten Boom, adapted by Mario DeMatteo, illustrated by Ismael Castro
from Chosen Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC)
$24.99
Hitler's Daughter
by Jackie French
from HarperCollins
for 4th-7th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Holocaust
History of the World
by Charles George
from KidHaven Press
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
How and Why Wonder Book of World War II
by Felix Sutton, illustrated by Darrell Sweet
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in How and Why Wonder Books (Location: VIN-H&W)
How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz
1st edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 2nd-5th grade
Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$21.99
Hull-Down for Action
by Armstrong Sperry
from Doubleday & Company
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
John F. Kennedy and PT-109
Landmark #99
by Richard Tregaskis
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Journey to America
Journey to America Saga #1
by Sonia Levitin
from Atheneum
for 3rd-6th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Lion of Poland
by Ruth & Paul Hume, illustrated by Lili Réthi
from Hawthorn Books, Inc.
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Little Fishes
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Little Ships
by Louise Borden, illustrated by Michael Foreman
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
for 2nd-6th grade
in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Luba
by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick
from Tricycle Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
Medical Corps Heroes of World War II
Landmark #120
by Wyatt Blassingame
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Midway: Battle for the Pacific
Landmark #119
by Edmund Castillo
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Molly Marches On
American Girls Short Stories
by Valerie Tripp
First Edition, First Printing from American Girl
for 2nd-5th grade
in American Girl (Location: SER-AMGIRL)
Molly Takes Flight
American Girls Short Stories
by Valerie Tripp
First Edition, First Printing from American Girl
for 2nd-5th grade
in American Girl (Location: SER-AMGIRL)
My Secret Camera
by Mendel Grossman
from Harcourt
for 4th-8th grade
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
My Secret War
Dear America
by Mary Pope Osborne
First Edition from Scholastic Inc.
Fictional historical journal for 3rd-6th grade
in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
North of Danger
by Dale Fife, map and decorations by Haakon Saether
1st edition from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
North to Freedom
by Anne Holm
from Harcourt, Brace & World
for 4th-7th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
October 45
by Jean-Louis Besson, translated by Carol Volk
from Harcourt Brace Jovanich
for 2nd-6th grade
in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping
Dear America
by Barry Denenberg
from Scholastic Inc.
Fictional historical journal for 3rd-6th grade
in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
One Thousand Tracings
by Lita Judge
from Little, Brown & Company
for 3rd-5th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
Pancakes-Paris
by Claire Huchet Bishop, illustrated by Georges Schreiber
from Viking Press
Realistic fiction for 4th-6th grade
1948 Newbery Honor Book
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$28.00 (1 in stock)
Pearl Harbor is Burning!
by Kathleen V. Kudlinski, illustrated by Ronald Himler
from Viking Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Pictorial Encyclopedia of American History Volume 14
from United States Capital Historical Society
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Pictorial History of the Second World War Volume X
from Wm. H. Wise & Co.
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Place to Hang the Moon
by Kate Albus
from Margaret Ferguson Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$18.99
Primrose Day
by Carolyn Haywood
from Harcourt
for 3rd-5th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Raid of No Return
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #7
by Nathan Hale
from Amulet Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC)
$15.99
Remembering Manzanar
by Michael L. Cooper
from Clarion Books
for 4th-12th grade
in WWII: U.S. Homefront (Location: HISA-20WW2H)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
World Landmark #47
by William L. Shirer, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Rowan Farm
by Margot Benary-Isbert
from Purple House Press
for 3rd-10th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$23.00
Seabees of World War II
Landmark #103
by Edmund Castillo, foreword by Admiral Ben Moreell, CEC, USN, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Secret of the Crazy Quilt
by Florence Hightower, illustrated by Beth & Joe Krush
from Houghton Mifflin
for 5th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Secret Seder
by Doreen Rappaport
1st edition from Hyperion Press
for 3rd-5th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Silver Sword
by Ian Serraillier, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Criterion Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
by Peg Kehret
from Albert Whitman & Company
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
Spies, Lies, and Disguise
by Jennifer Swanson, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
from Bloomsbury Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Spy Who Came in from the Sea
by Peggy Nolan
from Pineapple Press
Adventure Stories for 2nd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$14.95
Story of Amelia Earhart
Signature Books #33
by Adele de Leeuw, illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 3rd-8th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of D-Day
by R. Conrad Stein & Tom Dunnington
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
Story of D-Day
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Story of D-Day
by R. Conrad Stein & Tom Dunnington
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944
Landmark #62
by Bruce Bliven, illustrated by Albert Orbaan
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Story of Dan Beard
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #43
by Robert N. Webb, illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Signature Books #38
by Arthur J. Beckhard, illustrated by Charles H. Geer
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 3rd-8th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of Eleanor Roosevelt
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #48
by Lorena A. Hickok, illustrated by William Barss
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #39
by Lorena A. Hickok, illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of George Washington Carver
Signature Books #17
by Arna Bontemps, illustrated by Harper Johnson
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 4th-8th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Cornerstones of Freedom
by Barbara Silberdick Feinberg
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Story of Madame Curie
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #46
by Alice Thorne, illustrated by Federico Castellon
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of President Kennedy
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #50
by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Carl Cassler
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of the Atomic Bomb
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
Story of the Battle for Iwo Jima
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Story of the Battle of the Bulge
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
Story of the Battle of the Bulge
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
Story of the Paratroops
Landmark #82
by George Weller, illustrated by W. T. Mars
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Story of the U.S.S. Arizona
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein & Tom Dunnington
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Story of the U.S.S. Arizona
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th Grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
Story of the U.S.S. Arizona
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
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