A fictional account of the Dieppe Raid during World War II, following two, young Canadian soldiers--Allie and his friend Mackie--into a battle where thousands will be killed and the survivors will be sent to a German POW camp.

Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

"A rollicking wartime adventure on the BC coast. A lot has changed in the world since Sophie, Molly, Mark, Harriet, Leticia, and Posy's last adventure in The Silver Lining. Now it's 1940, and the Second World War is making life back home in the United Kingdom very dangerous indeed. Although our intrepid crew has seen their fair share of precarious situations, from being chased by pirates to making harrowing rescues in abandoned mine shafts, their...

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a poignant and harrowing story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaust-based on a true story. Three friends. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends-Leo, Elsa, and Max-spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly...

In the summer of 1940 as the war in Europe begins to intensify, a reluctant ten-year-old Norah and her five-year-old brother Gavin are sent by their parents to safety in Canada where to Norah's dismay they are taken in by the rich Ogilvie family.