A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IIby Sonia PurnellHardcover368 Pages2019 The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of...

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime SpyBen MacintyreHardback432 Pages2021 The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent...

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943By: Erica FischerPaperback416 Pages2015 Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim...

Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival StoryBy: Mayumi Shimose Poe (Author) and Matt Forsyth (Illustrator)Paperback112 Pages2019Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inchesAge Range: 8-12 YearsGrade Level: 3-7 In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days...

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II By: Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-GreenleePaperback528 Pages In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of...

Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place by Barbara Lowell (Author) and Valentina Toro (Illustrator)Paperback40 PagesSeptember 2020Ages: 7-11 YearsGrade: 2-5 Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies...

  Catherine's War By: Julia Billet (Author), Claire Fauvel (Illustrtor), Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)Paperback176 Pages2020Grade Level: 3-7Reading Level: 8-12 Years This middle grade graphic novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in...

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchillby Sonia PurnellPaperback448 Pages2016 A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...

The Courageous Six Triple Eight: The All-Black Female Batallion of World War II (Women Warriors of World War II) by Dr. Tyner, Artika R. (Author) and Cynthia Paul (Illustrator) Paperback32 PagesJuly 2022Age: 8-12Grades: 3-4 When the United States...

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (Women of Action)by Cheryl Mullenbachpaperback272 Pages2008 “Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won’t be necessary. . . . If...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 Blanche Wiesen Cook Paperback 688 Pages 2017 Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential...

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1884 - 1933 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback587 PagesMarch 1993 The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933 - 1938 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback736 pagesJune 2000 The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).The captivating second...

Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWIIby P. O'Connell PearsonHardcover224 PagesProduct Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inchesAge Range: 10 and UpGrade Level: 5-6 “A truly inspiring read.” —Booklist (starred...

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari EderHardcover400 PagesAugust 2021 For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of...

Hold On To Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Laneby Emil Sher (adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)40 PagesPaperbackAges 4-8January 12, 2021Discover the inspiring illustrated...

Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen MorrisonHardcover272 PagesReading Age: 12 Years and UpGrade Levels: 7-9November, 2012 Literary Classics Gold Medal in Historical Young AdultLiterary...

Author: Sonia Purnell  Pages: 528 Published: September 2024   Discover the captivating life of Pamela Harriman, one of the most influential and enigmatic women of the 20th century, in Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell. From her early years as Winston...

Kiyo Sato: From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service by Connie Goldsmith with Kiyo SatoHardcover140 PagesReading Age: 11-18 yearsGrade Level: 6-12September 2020"Our camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a...

Latina/os and WWII PB: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez and B. V. OlguínPaperback328 Pages2014 The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and...