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A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace John Knowles · 1966 Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War… Shares Preparatory schools, Literary, Boys, World War II
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To die in spring Ralf Rothmann · 2017 · ★ 3.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier. Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however,… Shares Youth, World War II, World War
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City of gold Len Deighton · 1992 · ★ 3.7 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Shares World War II, World War with this book.
The Rose Code
The Rose Code Kate Quinn · 2021 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares World War, Friendship with this book.
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All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are… Shares Youth, Literary, World War II, World War
1915
1915 Roger McDonald · 2001 · 433p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares World War, Friendship with this book.
The Silence of Ghosts
The Silence of Ghosts Jonathan Aycliffe · 2013 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family… Shares World War II, World War
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Dogs don't tell jokes Louis Sachar · 1991 · ★ 3.8 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school. Shares Boys, Schools, Friendship
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Oorlog zonder vrienden Evert Hartman · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In a small Dutch town during World War II, fourteen-year-old Arnold, a member of the Hitler Youth, feels increasingly isolated and trapped between his father's fervent support of the Nazi party and his classmates' hostile opposition to all the Nazis stand for. Shares World War II, Friendship
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The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares World War II, World War
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Mike and Psmith P. G. Wodehouse · 1935 · ★ 4.0 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Gloomy when his poor scholastic record forces him to change schools just as he is about to become captain of the cricket team, an English boy cheers up when he discovers another new boy in similar circumstances. Shares Boys, Schools, Friendship
London Belles
London Belles Annie Groves · 2010 Shares World War II, World War with this book.
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Horizon, a novel Helen MacInnes · 1946 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth fighting for. Other wiser heads, including liberated POW Roy know the Nazi's treachery. Roy is holed up for 8 months in a family home as liaison between the local resistance and… Shares World War II, World War
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Night of the Fox Henry Patterson · 1757 · ★ 3.7 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Narra unos acontecimientos que hubieran podido cambiar radicalmente el desenlace de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un veterano agente secreto británico debe rescatar a cualquier precio a un coronel norteamericano que ha naufragado cerca de la isla de Jersey, ocupada por los alemanes. El éxito de la operación resulta aún más problemático por la presencia en la isla de un doble del mariscal Rommel. La… Shares World War II, World War
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Freya and the Magic Jewel (Thunder Girls Book 1) Joan Holub · 2018 · ★ 4.0 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Unlike her twin brother Frey, twelve-year-old girlgoddess Freya is not excited about their invitation to Asgard Academy, especially after she loses her magical jewel, leaving her powerless and worried about making friends. Shares Schools, Friendship
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It Had to Be You Cecily von Ziegesar · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in luxe Fifth Avenue apartments and attend Manhattan's most exclusive private schools. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, we wear fantastic clothes, and we know how to party. We can't help it-we were born this way. Our story begins with three inseparable, completely gorgeous fifteen-year-olds, Serena van der… Shares Preparatory schools, Private schools, Schools
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The rest of us just live here Patrick Ness · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are… Shares Youth, Schools, Friendship
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Go Jump in the Pool! Gordon Korman · 1979 · ★ 4.2 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate York Academy has a pool; Macdonald Hall does not. While annoying, this has never bothered the Macdonald Hall students much...until some of the boys report that their parents believe that the richer sports opportunities available at York will prompt them to transfer their sons to Macdonald Hall's biggest rival. The boys scheme to get a pool...a better pool than York Academy. Shares Preparatory schools, Schools, Friendship

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