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)
Air War Against Hitler's Germany
by Stephen W. Sears
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
for 6th-10th grade
in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
America During Four Wars
by Earl Schenck Miers & Felix Sutton
from Grosset & Dunlap
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank, translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
Book Club Edition from Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
for 6th-10th 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
Captain Edward L. Beach: Around the World Under Water
by Beril Becker
from Kingston House
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (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)
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)
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)
Curies and Radium
Immortals of Science
by Elizabeth Rubin
from Franklin Watts
for 6th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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
Desert War in North Africa
by Stephen W. Sears
from Harper & Row
for 4th-8th grade
in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
Elephant in the Garden
by Michael Morpurgo
from Feiwel & Friends
for 5th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Escape from Corregidor
by Edward D. Whitcomb
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
for 6th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Escape or Die
by Ina R. Friedman
from Addison Wesley
for 6th-8th grade
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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)
Flying Tigers
Landmark #105
by John Toland
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
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 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)
History of the Atomic Bomb
by Michael Blow
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
for 6th-10th grade
in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
Hitler Youth
by Susan Bartoletti
from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
2006 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
$21.99
Hitler's Daughter
by Jackie French
from HarperCollins
for 4th-7th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Home Ranch
by Will James
from World Publishing Company
for 6th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Horses of Anger
by James Forman
2nd Printing from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 7th-10th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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)
King of Song
by Ruth & Paul Hume, illustrated by Irene Murray
from Hawthorn Books, Inc.
for 6th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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)
Maria
by Maria von Trapp
from Creation House
for 7th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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)
Monuments to Glory
by Daniel M. Madden, illustrated by Lili Réthi
from Hawthorn Books, Inc.
for 6th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
My Secret Camera
by Mendel Grossman
from Harcourt
for 4th-8th grade
in Holocaust (Location: HISW-20WW2H)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Never Dies the Dream
by Margaret Landon
from Doubleday & Company
for 7th-12th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.00 (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)
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)
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)
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)
Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-12th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$19.95 $14.00 (3 in stock)
South By Java Head
by Alistair MacLean
from Doubleday & Company
for 7th-10th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
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: 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 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 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 Winston Churchill
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #40
by Alida Sims Malkus, illustrated by H. B. Vestal
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 3rd-8th grade
in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
Story of World War I
Landmark Giant #10
by Robert Leckie
from Landmark Editions
for 5th-8th grade
in Landmark Giants (Location: VIN-LAN)
Story of World War II
Landmark Giant #7
by Robert Leckie
from Landmark Editions
for 5th-8th grade
in Landmark Giants (Location: VIN-LAN)
Swallows' Flight
by Hilary McKay
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$17.99
Teacher of Nomad Land
by Daniel Nayeri
from Levine Querido
for 4th-8th grade
2026 Newbery Honor Book
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$18.99
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Landmark #35
by Ted W. Lawson, edited by Bob Considine, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Timechart History of World War II
from Chartwell Books
for 4th-12th grade
in Timeline Resources (Location: HISRF-TIM)
U.S. Frogmen of World War II
Landmark #106
by Wyatt Blassingame
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Unbroken (Adapted for Young Adults)
by Laura Hillenbrand
from Random House
for 7th-12th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$21.99
United Nations in War and Peace
World Landmark #63
by T. R. Fehrenbach
from Random House
for 6th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Victory
by Written and Compiled by Nancy J. Skarmeas
from Ideals Publications
for 4th-Adult
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
War in Korea: 1950-1953
World Landmark #57
by Robert Leckie, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
War That Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Reprint from Dial Books for Young Readers
for 4th-8th grade
2017 Newbery Honor Book
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
War Within These Walls
by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki, translated by Laura Watkinson
from Eerdmans
for 4th-7th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$9.50 (1 in stock)
We Were There at Pearl Harbor
We Were There #15
by Felix Sutton, illustrated by Frank Vaughn
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There at the Battle for Bataan
We Were There #13
by Benjamin Appel, illustrated by Irv Docktor
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There at the Battle of Britain
We Were There #24
by Clayton Knight & Katherine Sturges Knight
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There at the Battle of the Bulge
We Were There #34
by David Shepherd, illustrated by George Kraynak
from Grosset & Dunlap
Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion
We Were There #5
by Clayton Knight
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There at the Opening of the Atomic Era
We Were There #32
by James Munves, illustrated by Charles Brey
from Grosset & Dunlap
Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
Winged Watchman
by Hilda van Stockum
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Wings of Mystery
by Dale M. Titler
for 4th-8th grade
in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
Winston Churchill
World Landmark #56
by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 6th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Winston Churchill and the Story of Two World Wars
by Olivia Coolidge
from Houghton Mifflin
Biography for 7th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Wolf Hollow
by Lauren Wolk
from Puffin Books
for 6th-10th grade
2017 Newbery Honor Book
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
World Wars
Usborne Internet-Linked
by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst & Henry Brook
from Usborne
for 5th-8th grade
in World War I (1914-1919) (Location: HISA-20WW1)
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
by Sook Nyul Choi
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-7th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)