Kids Books - Historical

A thrilling historical fiction novel suitable for eleven to fourteen year olds. The story follows a young Jewish girl living during a brutal time period, the Holocaust. She joined a resistance group with the job to sneak into and out of ghettos. Great story with good character development.

Dana Burley, Abby`s daughter - but she is much more closer to her father, Zander. He is one who encourages her artistic talents, and Zander is a celebrated New-York author, even if he drinks too much. Her twin sister, Julia, always wanted to be dressed up same, which has annoyed Dana a little. Later, Zander, her father, dies due to the drowning, which has caused the Burley family to leave the New York to live in Maine. But Dana feels like her home belongs in New York so she decided to leave her family behind to live in New York with her young aunt Adele. During her time in NY, she was determined to study the art, attend school, and achieve an impendence. I would definitely recommend this. - Happy Reading!

This book is about a girl who goes with her grandpa and brother to a cabin in Glacier National Park. She was going to put their campfire out and go in after her grandpa and brother. She put the fire out and was about to head in when she heard a low growl. She turned and saw a tall, skinny grizzly. She backed away slowly until she got into the cabin. She got in and relaxed; she looked out the door and saw the grizzly there on the porch. (I won’t give anymore details on that to keep it a surprise) Later, she finds herself face-to-face with another angry grizzly.

I love this book i kissed it and i sleep with it next to me every day i read it going to the bathroom and read it to my dolls everline and char char THanks everyone

I liked how I could picture the characters in my head. The author was able to give great details to the reader and it helped my imagination. The story was action-packed and very enjoyable. I listened to the audiobook while following the story in my paperback book. This made the book more exciting because the audiobook used different voices.

Abigail Nichols who known as just Abby. At beginning of the book, Abby is a fourth-grader along with her best friend, Sarah Moreside, and her another friend, Orrin Umhay in Lewisport. Her sisters, Rose, Fred, and Adele, along with Mama (Nell) and Pop (Luther). But Pop is not nice father to his kids and his wife. Pop has even forbad Abby to be with Orrin and Marie. In few chapters later, when Abby and her family has moved to Bargent Point (sorry if I has spelt this wrong) and met her future husband, Zander Burley, who was a Army soldier along with Richard, and former high-school/college student when Zander has married Abby in the ending. And shortly after, Mama became so sick since that Pop has sent Fred, who is a crippled boy to the special school just for the crippled kids/adults, probably just about few weeks later, Mama dies. Later in the book, when Abby was just now in the high school, she met two girls, Maureen and Darcy, and she also met; Wyman, Richard, and Helen March. In the nearly ending of the book, Helen married Abby`s father, and became her stepmom. Would recommend this book! - Happy Reading!

The only real reason why I has read this book is because this book is about a Jewish teenage girl named Anne Frank. She has lead super inspiring, difficult but scary life during World War II. Her dream is to write a book about her life, which can enable current and future generations can know and learn about her, well, her dream has came true. During the Hitler`s time in WW2, nearly whole Jewish community in Germany were killed, made Jewish people flee and hide from Hitler, hoping to avoid the danger from Hitler and his Nazis by moving to foreign countries. Even though Anne and her family were hiding in the secret annex, she was so brave, even though she felt scared, she still has lead her own life, writing down her feelings to let the readers know how her life is really like. She is so inspiring person in the history that I ever heard of, she deserve to be known nearly everywhere. Anne Frank`s lesson is to enjoy even the smallest thing in your life and don`t take the things for granted. I would be def recommend this book. - Happy Reading!

I really like The 39 Clues, and when I found out that Linda Sue Park had another book, about Korea under Japanese rule (I'm from South Korea, not North, why does everyone ask that), I was so curious I had to read the book. When My Name Was Keoko is about the time Korea was under Japanese rule. It is written in two perspectives, Sun-hee and Tae-yul's. I loved how some of the characters (Sun-hee, Tae-yul, their parents, Mrs. Ahn (a neighbor), and Tomo) rebelled against Japan in quiet or energetic (if that makes sense) ways. This book beautifully portrayed how a family living in those times would act. I'm a sucker for historical fiction and teenage books, so When My Name Was Keoko was perfect! The ending wrapped the whole book wonderfully, with Sun-hee teaching Tae-yul the Korean alphabet. However, something that could have been better is the lack of background information. Someone unfamiliar with Korea's history might've initially felt confused or bored. I also worried that using Korean pronouns would perplex readers who do not know Korean. To summarize, When My Name Was Keoko is a great book about rebellion, family, and strength. Even though it may be confusing for people who didn't have a lot of Korean culture exposure, I recommend this book for 9 and up!

''Lida thought she was safe.''- This book is so emotional! The fact that the author had asked someone to tell them about their story, their story about getting captured by Hitler and basing it off of a book, is incredible. Lida has been captured by the Nazi and separated from her sister Larissa. Now she has been taken to a camp with other kids like her. When they get there, children under 12 are separated in one group, and over 12 in another. An older kid told her to lie to them about your age, say you're older. They say if you're older, you're useful. And how she knows this? This isn't the first time she was captured by the Nazi. But when Lida's friend gets an idea to sabotage the bombs they are assigned to make, it may work. They tell them they are watched all times. But they can carry dirt and dump it into the bombs. The idea actually works. Soon Lida and her friends who survived get rescued by the American army. But what about Larissa? Fortunately, Lida gets a letter from her sister saying she got rescued and is in Canada! This book was so detailed and I would definitely give it a 5/5 rating. I recommend this to people interested in the Nazi and Adolf Hitler.

In this book Julian’s grandma(Sara) is telling Julian a chapter of a dark moment in her life. It was pretty hard for her to tell Julian this story. She tells parts that she has told no one. Except Julian. R.J. Palacio did such a nice job on this book, but at some parts it has French so I couldn’t understand.This book is a roller coaster of emotions. I cried at some parts, but truly this book is so amazing. This book is for sure a number 1 book.