Kids Books - Historical

The Blackbird Girls

The Blackbird Girls

By Anne Blankman

I read this book for school, and I loved it. It is about the Chernobyl incident and ww2. I love the character development and how sweet it is

Who Was Anne Frank?

Who Was Anne Frank?

By Ann Abramson

This book is about a girl named Anne Frank. During the world war || Anne and her family are trying to hide from a very terrible person named Hittler. For some crazy reason he hated the Jews and wanted to kill all of them. Anne and her family were Jewish. During the time of war Anne writes in her diary. Sadly when her dad had to go help fight in the war Anne and her mom and sister stayed home. When Anne's dad returned, he found Anne her sister and her mom dead on the floor. If you want to find out more about Anne Frank and the amazing historical book you'll need to read this book.

Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution

Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution

By Avi

Sophia Calderwood, a regular 12 years old girl in American Revolutionary War of 1770s. Her older brother, William had enlisted and fought in army of Patriots (American) against Loyalist (British) but William got killed on the prisoner ship of Patriots'. Sophia met few people; Lt. John André, Benedict Arnold, Robert Townsend, John Paulding, etc. Things had grown intense as when Sophia turned 15 later in the book and her spy name was Molly Saville, using her mother's maiden name and her first name. She uncovered the major secret between "Mr. Moore" (Benedict Arnold) and "Mr. Anderson" (Lt. John André). - Happy Reading!

I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior( Memoirs of an American Soldier)[I AM A SEAL TEAM 6 WARRIOR TUR][Prebound]

I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior( Memoirs of an American Soldier)[I AM A SEAL TEAM 6 WARRIOR TUR][Prebound]

By HowardE.Wasdin

best book ive ever read I never wanted to put it down and im not much of a reader if you like navy army military ect. then you would love this book I highly recommend this book if you want to do it true story written from real seal team six members its exciting suspenseful and good for all readers but its NOT FOR PEOPLE UNDER 10 years of age BEST BOOK EVER!!!!

Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By Alan Gratz

This is about a boy named Michael O'Shaunessey, he and his parents are spies for the Allies. His father is the Irish Ambassador and that was the reason why they were so close to Hitler. He had a real armband just like the real s.s. First, it starts out that Fritz a boy in school shows him the blueprints to Projekt 1065, a important jet that the Allies need models for so they can invent it before the Nazis. On a search, he knows where the allies airman had dropped. So he leads all the other kids the wrong direction before rescuing the pilot and putting him into a safe place. Just like that things start happening, Simon the airman asks for the blue print and since Michael has a photo graphic memory he can just draw the blue print from his mind. Then, with all his might he needs to get on that Swiss invasion plan which is to murder Professor Goldstein and he has to stop them because the professor is the one that helps generate the ideas for the jet. Then, Fritz sees him take out the blueprints and hides them so he alerts the others and and secretly they set a trap that doesn't work. According to the plan they will set a bomb and that will go off....which however doesn't go off in the right place and the professor and Michael and Michael's family all survive.

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels gives an account of an Englishman (Gulliver, of course) who goes on voyages but is very unlucky. He meets (famously) Liliputians, the small people; Brobdinagians (the big people); Laputans and Balinarbians; and Hounyhnms, the virtuous talking horses. Through these travels, Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer of satire, weaves in criticisms of the world during the 18th century, criticizing the following: Whigs, Hanoverians, people from the Netherlands, and Europeans. It is interesting to read all the brilliant sarcastic ways things are allegorized in this book. The sheer absurdity of some events was diverting too. For example, LIliput battles its rival, Blefuscu based solely on the "correct" method of cracking eggs, and Gulliver urinates on the place in a noble attempt to put out a fire, and is promptly sentenced to blinding and slow starvation. Of course, you will have to read the book to realize all of its brilliance. But as this book does not have dialogue, only long monologues without even quotation marks, and because the sentences are long, and semicolons put in at strange places, this is not so quick to read. This, I know, will detract from the reading experience of some. But if you are prepared, you should read these pages and bask in its deep glory, irony, and wit. I especially recommend it to people who like reading classics or are prepared to think while they are reading. Lastly, I recommend that you read it with some footnotes to understand political references, such as the Sterling Edition, which also has good printing and large font.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

By Brian Selznick

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In this book, Brian Selznick does an outstanding job capturing each and every emotion within this book and turning it into the awe-striking illustration that just adds to the buildup of suspense created within every page. As a young boy, Hugo Cabret spends most of his young childhood with his beloved father learning, loving and cherishing each and every moment they share together; which mostly involves tinkering with the many parts and pieces his father saves from his studies at the museum. After his father passes in a perilous fire incident, Hugo is then sent off to live with his only relative left, his uncle, who teaches him the ways of life setting and living in the clocks of a busy Paris train station. As his uncle is a strong alcoholic, Hugo is basically orphaned, for his uncle disappears every night to soon be never seen again. Now, without an adult guardian for supervision, Hugo everyday risks being caught and sent away to an orphanage in his fight to find out the true use for the automaton his father left behind, as well as why everybody else is so caught up in trying to stop him, and possibly take the last piece of his father that Hugo has left to hold close to his heart...

Spirit Riding Free: The Adventure Begins

Spirit Riding Free: The Adventure Begins

By Suzanne Selfors

This book is about a girl named Lucky Prescott, real full name is Fortuna, ex-city girl, having to miss her friend, Emma`s birthday party, moved to the country, while on the train, she noticed an horse, tan and white blaze on his face, galloping along the train, but she noticed 2 men was after the wild herd of horses, breaking (not actual breaking, it`s just means tame) captured the tan horse, then Lucky saved horse life, named him, Spirit, because that horse is full of the spirit. I rate this book 5 stars, I`m totally recommend this book!

Heart of a Samurai

Heart of a Samurai

By Margi Preus

In the 1841, Manjiro and his friends are out fishing in Japan, but a huge storm comes by! They get stuck on an island, and things seem bleak for them. Awhile later, an American ship comes and saves them! They are taken to Hawaii and they can't understand English, or know where they come from. Manjiro leaves to go to America with the captain, but his friends stay behind. He meets friends, has some confrontations, and takes responsibility for his life, but in all is still very homesick. Will he ever get home? Read Heart of a Samurai to find out. I connected to this book, because I understand how Manjiro felt when he felt homesick and wanted to go back to Japan. I rate this book 5 stars because it gives you the dates of every new chapter, and the development and story line is enticing and hard to put down.

I Survived #6: I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001

I Survived #6: I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001

By Lauren Tarshis

To be honest, I absolutely love the I Survived series. The whole series is basically in the point of view of a person who survived a war, a horrible event, a terrorism attack, etc. It's basically a history book, but it sounds like a narrative and it's really to-the-point. This book is about Lucas, who loves football. When he gets a concussion during practice, the doctor says that his concussion is really bad for an 11-year-old. Lucas' parents decide that the sport is too dangerous, now that he has a concussion. Lucas has to talk to Uncle Benny, who taught him everything about football. He hopes that Uncle Benny can change his parents' mind. So, Lucas skips school and visits Uncle Benny (who is a firefighter in New York) and his dad, who works with Uncle Benny in the fire department. While they are talking, they were heading toward the Twin Towers when the first plane crashed! Uncle Benny and the firefighters (including Lucas' dad) tries to save as many people as they can. Lucas, on the other hand, tries to help as best as he can, but the room they are in collapses! Will everyone (or anyone) get out alive? Read this book to find out. I would not recommend this book to younger readers, because this is a very serious topic and not appropriate for them. Even though this was a short read, it made plenty of emotions rush through me - fear, angst, horror, and even happiness and relief. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I wept a little wept occasionally. One more thing: terrorism is an awful, awful thing, and I just hope that we can achieve world peace one day. Even if we do have one golden minute of world peace, I feel everything would crumble down again.. I'm sorry. I love this book, but I would subtract one star for not having a very good base or anything I can connect to.

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