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History: Hidden Figures and Events: Modern World History

Modern World History

Middle Grade Nonfiction

Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of
Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
The deadliest diseases then and now
Bomb : graphic novel : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon

Middle Grade Fiction

Courage to dream : tales of hope in the Holocaust
Louisa June and the Nazis in the waves
Winterkill : a novel
Finding Junie Kim
Queen of the sea / Dylan Meconis

Young Adult Nonfiction

American shoes : a refugee's story
Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
Run and hide : how Jewish youth escaped the holocaust
Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany
Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia
A time of fear : America in the era of red scares and Cold War

Young Adult Fiction

The mermaid, the witch, and the sea
Mapping the bones
What the night sings : a novel
When the world was ours
The librarian of Auschwitz
Displacement
The war outside
We are not free
I Must Betray You