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Auslander

Paul Dowswell

With his German blood, blond hair and blue eyes Polish orphan Peter is the perfect candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement. An important Nazi official wants to adopt him, although secretly Peter is forming his own ideas about the events taking place around him. Resisting the brain washing of the Nazi regime, Peter finds like-minded friends and takes the most dangerous risk of all. A dramatic story of everyday life in Berlin during World War 2.

9780747589099 Bloomsbury, 2009

Then

Morris Gleitzman

It’s 1942 and Felix and Zelda are on a train, being sent to a Jewish death camp. They manage to escape and their life becomes a tale of survival.  The plan is to find new parents, change their identity and be safe forever – but then the Nazis come.  What will happen to Felix and Zelda? The sequel to Once.

9780141324821 Puffin, 2009

The Escape

Robert Muchamore

This is the first in a new adventure series set in the Second World War by the author of the popular CHERUB books, about Henderson’s boys, a group of young people recruited to be spies against the Germans by British agent Charles Henderson. In this action-packed opener, it is 1940 and the Germans are advancing on Paris. In their path are two British children with something they want. Can Henderson and his first recruit get to them in time?

9780340956489 Hodder Children’s, 2009