Originally written in German, this English translation sets the stage for a contemporary controversy that could erupt in any unsuspecting family of German descent.
Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Hava Aaronson is an Orthodox Jew who lives an unorthodox lifestyle in the world of punk.
Piri, now 17, resides with a Swedish family while she searches for news of family and friends who also might have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
This book examines the treatment of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II by the U.S. government.
Lily is looking forward to spending another summer at her family's vacation home with her grandmother on the shore in Rockaway, New York, when her father drops the news that he must go to Europe with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.
This is Mary Matsuda's memoir beginning when she was 16 years old.
Based on historical fact, this is a story that brings World War II home, just off the coast of Maine where Jill Winters has been sent to live with her grandmother.
Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey interviewed survivors of Hiroshima's bomb while the ashes were still warm.
Fourteen-year-old Louise Keller and her family leave Ohio for the Philippines in order to join a missionary camp in 1941.
This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention as seen through the eyes of Jeannie, the youngest daughter of the Wakatsuki family.