As teachers are starting to take their students through The Diary of Anne Frank, I’ve been asked for book recommendations. Here is a list (that will update) of books that I think connect well to World War II and its issues:
- Soldier X by Don Wulffson
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- Boy at War by Harry Mazer
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine – Actually takes place during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 70s, but the secret police, mob rule, and underground resistance are very similar to Nazi rule.
- Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- War, Women, and the News by Catherine Gourley
- Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins by Walter Dean Myers
- Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
