Grades 6-9

Scholastic, 2008
309 pages
Reading Level: 4.7
Vietnam War, African Americans

"There are only two kinds of people in Vietnam. People who are alert twenty-fours a day, and people who are dead." (Fallen Angels)
"In a novel rich in characters and authentic in detail, Walter Dean Myers tells the powerful story of one seventeen-year-old's tour of duty. Fallen Angels is a testament to the thousands of young adults who fought and died in the Vietnam War." (Scholastic)

Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005
244 pages
Reading Level: 6.6
Grandmothers, Maine, Friendship

"In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought." (Titlewave)

Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006
186 pages
Reading Level: 7.0
Brothers and Sisters, Disabilities, Family, Maine

"Fifteen-year-old Will Ames and his sister Cassie go to stay with their sister in nearby Wiscasset, Maine, after a disabling accident ruins Will's plans for a career in farming." (Titlewave)

Bored and saddened by the move from Berlin to "Out-With", 9-year old Bruno is naive to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Unbeknownst to him, his father is the commander. When Bruno helps his new friend on the other side of the fence try to find his missing father, tragedy strikes.

Harper Collins, 2002
Illustrator: Ann Grifalconi
32 pages
Reading Level: 3.2 Mature Content
Vietnam War, Soldiers, Free Verse

As a frightened American soldier faces combat in the forests of Vietnam, he comes face-to-face with a young enemy.