Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues
Little Tiger Press Group Secrets and Spies
Book SynopsisPrepare to go undercover and enter a world of secret missions, covert operations and classified information. Explore the history of espionage from ancient secret agents to modern-day surveillance, and read about the lives of infamous spies and their missions. Learn the language of spies and how to read codes and ciphers, then ask yourself the all-important question – could you be a spy? An exploration of a hugely popular subject by the author of the best-selling ‘Horrible Geography series.
£16.99
ARTE DE LA GUERRA EL
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£13.17
Taylor & Francis Teaching Peace and War
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£128.25
Cambridge University Press Peace Education How We Come to Love and Hate War
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£78.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Plot to Kill Hitler Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for NEVER FALL DOWN: "One of the most inspiring and powerful books I've ever read. Never Fall Down can teach us all about finding the courage to speak our truth and change the world."- -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Praise for NEVER FALL DOWN: "Following the pattern of excellence McCormick began with her novel SOLD, she has created another amazing story through skilled and patient research." -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (Starred Review) Praise for PURPLE HEART: "Timely and provocative thriller." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for PURPLE HEART: "McCormick builds the plot subtly and carefully with rich, spare prose." -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for PURPLE HEART: "Gripping details of existence in a war zone bring this to life." -- ALA Booklist Praise for SOLD: "Hard-hitting ... poignant. The author beautifully balances the harshness of brothel life with the poignant relationships among its residents." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for SOLD: "Unforgettable" -- Booklist (starred review) Praise for SOLD: "Searing...poetic." -- The Horn Book Praise for CUT: "Poignant and compelling." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Praise for CUT: "This novel, like Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of giving voice to a very real sense of harm and powerlessness." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for CUT: "McCormick tackles a side of mental illness that is rarely seen in young adult fiction in a believable and sensitive manner."- -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Praise for CUT: "You will not soon forget a girl named Callie and this remarkable novel." -- Robert Cormier Praise for CUT: "CUT is one of the best young-adult novels in years. Riveting and hopeful, sweet, heartbreaking.'" -- Boston Globe
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stowaway
Book SynopsisThe beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby''s Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth.When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth’s crust, they have no idea that it just happens to be the most valuable substance in the entire universe. It’s not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry into their intergalactic coalition—all in exchange for this precious resource. A material so precious that other alien forces are willing to start a war over it. A war that soon makes its way to Earth.Leo knows this all too well. His mother was killed in one such attack, and soon after, his father, a Coalition scientist, decides it would be best for them to leav
£16.99
Penguin Random House India Terminal 3
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£13.49
Little, Brown & Company Code Girls
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II. More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation''s capital to learn the top secret art of code breaking. Through their work, the code girls helped save countless lives and were vital in ending the war. But due to the top secret nature of their accomplishments, these women have never been able to talk about their story--until now. Through dazzling research and countless interviews with the surviving code girls, Liza Mundy brings their story to life with zeal, grace, and passion. Abridged and adapted for a middle grade audience, Code Girls brings this important story to young readers for t
£11.20
Penguin Putnam Inc Night Diary The
Book SynopsisA 2019 NEWBERY HONOR BOOKA gripping, nuanced story of the human cost of conflict appropriate for both children and adults. -Kirkus, starred reviewIn the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreTrade ReviewPraise for The Night Diary By Veera HiranandaniJohn Newberry Medal, 20192019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature[TN1] A New York Times Editor's Choice PickGeorgia Children’s Book Award 2019-2020 NomineeCamellia Children's Choice Book Award Nominee ALABAMA 2021-2022 Malka Penn Book Award Winner CONNECTICUT 2018 Nutmeg Book Award CONNECTICUT Nominee 2021 Georgia Children's Book Award GEORGIA Nominee 2019-2020 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award ILLINOIS Master List 2020 Young Hoosier Book Award INDIANA Nominee 2020-2021 William Allen White Children's Book Award KANSAS Reading List 2020-2021 Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award LOUISIANA Nominee 2020-2021 Maine Student Book Award 2019-2020 Master ListMassachusetts Children's Book Award MASSACHUSETTS Nominee 2020-2021 Great Lakes Great Books MICHIGAN Nominee 2020-2021 Mark Twain Readers Award MISSOURI Nominee 2020-2021 Great Stone Face Book Award NEW HAMPSHIRE Nominee 2019-2020 Garden State Book Award NEW JERSEY Nominee 2021 Oregon Reader's Choice Award (ORCA) OREGON Nominee 2021 Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award PENNSYLVANIA Nominee 2020-2021 South Carolina Book Awards SOUTH CAROLINA Nominee 2020-2021 Volunteer State Book Award TENNESSEE Nominee 2020-2021 Lone Star Reading List TEXAS Reading List 2019Beehive Book Award UTAH Nominee 2020 Just One More Page! WISCONSIN Reading List 2019ILA 2019 Teachers’ Choices Reading List2019 Jane Addams Honor Book in the Books for Older Children CategoryA Best Book of the Year by AmazonA Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA Best Book of the Year by The New York TimesA Best Book of the Year by NPRA Best Book of the Year by School Library JournalA Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post“Veera Hiranandani is a master storyteller. This riveting and important book speaks to the power of love in a world divided by hate and raises questions that still need to be asked seventy years after its events took place. Nisha and her story are a part of me now. My question is how do we make this a ‘community read’ for the whole world?”—James Howe, author of The Misfits “Nisha's sweet, sheltered world disappears overnight when her country splits in two—now Hindus must live in India, Muslims in Pakistan. But Nisha's both. Where can her family be safe? Hiranandani's story is set in an historical time little known to American children, but she tells it in a way that makes it accessible, timely, interesting and real."—Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of Newbery Honor–winning The War That Saved My Life “Veera Hiranandani’s storytelling is exquisite and compelling. For Nisha, like so many of us, home is a complicated place and this heartbreaking and hopeful novel reminds us that even in places where there is great loss and strife, there is deep joy, renewed faith. The Night Diary is a treasure for young readers who are searching for their place in the world, who are determined to bring home with them wherever they go.”—Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together* "Believable and heartbreaking...A gripping, nuanced story of the human cost of conflict appropriate for both children and adults."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "This rich, compelling story, which speaks to the turbulence surrounding India’s independence and to the plight of refugees, should be in all libraries."—School Library Journal, starred review* "The diary format gives her story striking intimacy and immediacy, serving as a window into a fraught historical moment as Nisha grapples with issues of identity and the search for a home that remain quite timely."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Hiranandani’s prose shines in both emotion and simple, rich description...A clear, compelling, and deeply felt historical novel."—Booklist, starred review
£12.99
Candlewick Press,U.S. Secret Soldiers How the U.S. TwentyThird Special
Book SynopsisWhat do set design, sound effects, and showmanship have to do with winning World War II? Meet the Ghost Army that played a surprising role in helping to deceive — and defeat — the Nazis.In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units — fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated. Follow the Twenty-Third into Europe as they play a dangerous game of enticing the German army into making battlefield mistakes by using sonic deceptions, inflatable tanks, pyrotechnics, and camouflage in more than twenty operations. F
£16.99
Tundra Books Innocent Heroes Stories of Animals in the First
Book SynopsisA unique celebration of the important role animals play in war, and an insightful look at the taking of Vimy Ridge from the perspective of 3 men in a Canadian platoon.Never before have the stories of animal war heroes been collected in such a special way. This book consists of eight connected fictional stories about a Canadian platoon in WW1. The Storming Normans have help from some very memorable animals: we meet a dog who warns soldiers in the trench of a gas attack, a donkey whose stubbornness saves the day, a cat who saves soldiers from rat bites, and many more. Each story is followed by nonfiction sections that tell the true story of these animals from around the world and of the Canadian soldiers who took Vimy Ridge. Through the friendship that grows between three of these soldiers in particular, we get a close-up look at life in the trenches, the taking of Vimy Ridge, the bonds between soldiers and their animals and what it meant to be Canadian in WW1.
£15.29
Candlewick Press,U.S. Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the
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£17.09
Nomad Press The American Revolution: Experience the Battle
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£16.19
Nomad Press The American Revolution: Experience the Battle
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£20.09
Nomad Press World War I: The Great War to End All Wars
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£17.05
