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Morgan Braun
 WHII.12 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the
worldwide impact of World War II by
 Explaining economic and political causes, describing major
events, and identifying leaders of the war, with emphasis
on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall,
Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Hideki
Tojo, and Hirohito;
 Examining the Holocaust and other examples of genocide
in the twentieth century;
 Explaining the terms of the peace, the war crimes trials, the
division of Europe, plans to rebuild Germany and Japan,
and the creation of international cooperative organizations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
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Offley, E. (2014). The burning shore: How hitler’s u-boats
brought world war ii to america. New York: Basic Books.
Ed Offley is a renowned military scholar who tells a thrilling
tale of the German U-boat offensive along the Atlantic shore in
early 1942. This offensive went on for 6 months with Germany
mercilessly sinking merchant ships in the east shores of
America to try and cut off supply lines between Britain and
America. When American Lt. Harry J. Kane spots a U-701
offshore it starts off a clash that will be known as the Battle of
the Atlantic, a very little known battle that shows how close
Germany was to pentrating our shores after Pearl Harbor.
This would be an excellent book to use that would relate to
many of the boys in the class. It brings in the war on the home
front as well as a military aspect to the war when usually we see
it through the lens of the social and economic impacts of the
war.
This book would have to be for a student on a higher reading
level. It is very technical in the way it explains the attacks. It
would appeal greatly to students in the class who have a big
interest in military history though.
Greene, B. (1993). Summer of my german soldier. New
York: Penguin.
 This story tells of an unlikely romance between 12 year
old Patty Bergen and Anton, a German prisoner brought
to her hometown in Arkansas. She is Jewish but soon
learns to have an open heart and develops a friendship
based on mutual loneliness and a misunderstanding by
those who surround them. She is willing to risk
everything to help him escape and it will change her life
forever.
 I actually remember reading this book. It is a relatively
easy read, for students with lower reading abilities.
 This book teaches empathy and for students to look
beyond stereotypical views of Nazi’s and Jews. It also
takes place in the United States, away from Nazi Germany
so it gives an interesting perspective on how much the US
population knew of what was going on over in Europe in
regards to the holocaust.
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 Schaffer, M. A., & Barrows, A. (2008). The
guernsey literary and potato peel pie society. New
York: The Dial Press.
 This book is a heartwarming tale of a woman who
comes across an island full of characters who
relate their tales of being occupied by German
forces and how they resisted the rule of the
German forces on the Island through their
literary club. She comes across this island full of
character after one of the members of the literary
club comes across her name in a book and starts a
correspondence with her. This spurs a trip to the
island and even a permanent residence.
 This book is great in that it makes connections
between the importance of reading like the book
thief does and it is easily on an 11 th graders
reading level.
 This is an easy read that flows well and creates
intrigue in wondering how the characters will all
connect in the end.
Spiegleman, A. (2003). The complete maus. New
York: Penguin.
 This is an animated comic book series that tells the
story of a man and his family hiding during the
holocaust. It uses the metaphor of animals as
characters to show the suppression of the Jewish
race. The complete series combines the 1 st and 2nd
book, the first being where the family is in the ghetto
and the second, where their trouble really begins and
they are forced into the concentration camps. This
book touches on more themes than just Jewish
struggles during the holocaust but also on a father
son relationship and how that has been affected by
his father’s experience in the holocaust
 This book is excellent for relating to students in that
it puts in in simpler terms using the metaphor for
animals
 I would say that this is an easy read for any student
that can handle the graphic content.
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Cooper, M. A. (2012). Edelweiss pirates ‘operation
einstein'. West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:
Infinity.
 In the Nazi takeover, it became compulsory to join
Hitler Youth. Those who did not join formed
resistance groups, the largest of which was the
Edelweiss pirates who numbered over 100,000. In this
story, boys witness a tragedy so horrifying that they
decide to resist the Hitler youth, playing pranks on
them and generally just being teenage boys. It shows
a diverse perspective on the idea that every single
child was brainwashed in the third Reich.
 This book would appeal to both boys and girls in the
classroom. I have never heard of this so it is an
interesting topic to read about and gain background
on Hitler Youth and the resistance to it.
 The readability of this text is not bad. It’s a longer
book but it reads very easily and f lows well. It is told
in story format with the grandfather relating his tale
to his grandson so it is easy to follow.
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 MacNeil, S. E. (2012). Mr. churchill's secretary.
New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks.
 This is the story of one young college grad,
Maggie Hope whose mind for code breaking
raises her from a lowly typist to secretary to
Churchill himself. This story is set in the heart
of London during Blitzkrieg. This is a tale of
intrigue, with a strong female lead sniffing out
assassination attempts and other plots against
the country. Along with this protagonist is the
portrait of Churchill which is painted through
her story.
 This is intriguing in that it gives us insight in to
how Churchill was dealing with the war and it
is done through a female perspective which
appeals to the girls in the class (and me).
 This may be a harder read for some students as
it is bogged down with intense research on the
subject matter and includes many dates
however it is a story of intrigue which keeps
students interested in the read.
 Salisbury, G. (2007). Eyes of the emperor.
New York: Laurel Leaf.
 Despite the fact that Eddy Okana joins the
army weeks before the Pearl Harbor
attack, afterwards nothing is the same.
Japanese Americans are highly distrusted.
The American government takes eddy and
other Japanese American soldiers for a
special mission on an island off the coast
of Mississippi. He is going to be training
guard dogs. However, he is the bait.
 This is great for the classroom in that it
provides a different perspective on the war
than students normally look at.
 This is only a 230 page book which would
make it perfectly readable for a 10 th grade
world history class and would appeal to
the boys in the class anyways.
 Bennett, C. (2002). Anne frank and me. New
York: Puffin
 Anne Frank and me is about Nicole Burns, who
is a modern day girl who is transported back in
time mysteriously at the Anne Frank museum.
She then becomes a privileged Jewish teen
before WWII. She has a boyfriend and a little
sister. But all of that changes when the Germans
occupy France and she is forced into a
concentration camp and rides in a cattle car with
Anne Frank to their deaths.
 I read this book in 7 th grade over and over. It is a
gripping tale reminding us how privileged we are
to not have lived through these events and how
nice it is to be transported back when you finish
the story.
 I was above average as a reader so I think this
could be an easy read for 9th and 10th graders but
would maybe be too easy for grades above that.
Smith, S.L. (2009). Flygirl. New York: Putnam’s Sons
 Following in her father’s footsteps, Ida Mae Jones
wants to be a pilot. However, she is black and she is a
woman which are 2 strikes against her in 1940.
However when America enters the war the WASP
unit is formed giving women a chance to be pilots.
However WASP won’t accept her as a black women so
Ida has to choose whether she will lie about her race
and try and pass for white to fulfill her dream.
Denying her true identity is a burden though and Ida
must decide if it is worth it to help her brother in the
pacific.
 This book gives a unique perspective of a black
woman in the war and the hardships and oppression
that they were still being faced with despite the fact
that we are fighting a war against oppression by the
third Reich. It would be an excellent classroom tool
to show more perspectives.
 This book is meant for a middle school to lower high
school reader. It is easy to get through as historical
fiction and an interesting take on the normal strong
feminine character who wants to f ly airplanes.
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 Bruchac, J. (2006). Code talker: A novel about the
navaho marines of world war II. New York: Speak.
 This book tells the story of the young Navaho boys
who were recruited from their boarding school to
talk code and relay messages worldwide without the
Axis powers breaking the code. These boys were all
told that their language was useless and that they
needed to conform to Americanized ways until their
value was discovered in that their language was an
almost unbreakable code.
 This book also shows a unique perspective on the
war that is rarely talked about or just mentioned in
passing and would be great for students to read
more about.
 This book has been on reading Olympic lists forever
now due to its great readability. It is good for any
reader from 7-11th grade. It would especially appeal
to the boys in the class but would be a great read for
the girls too.
 Hughes, D., & McGillivray, K. (2003). Soldier boys.
New York: Simon Pulse.
 Soldier boys tells the story of two boys on either
side of the war, both desperate to prove
themselves. Dieter quickly gets promoted from
Hitler Youth the the real German army. Spence
drops out of school to become an American
Paratrooper. Both never want the war to end, until
they actually enter and see the true horrors of this
war.
 This book is great for the classroom in that it
shows a parallel between young German soldiers
and young American soldiers and how much this
war was not a game but a horrid thing.
 This would also be appealing to the boys in the
classroom but would be a great reading to assign
as an easy read about war that isnt as technical but
still depicts how awful it is to actually be fighting.
I would easily recommend it from 7-11 grades
depending on the students reading levels.