Real-Life-History Fiction (and Nonfiction)

Try these books if you're looking for:

• interesting books that teach about real life history or events
• no graphic violence
• no graphic language
• read like Unbroken and The Book Thief

Stones in Water 
By Donna Jo Napoli
YAF NAPOLI
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.

Flags of Our Fathers 
By James Bradley
940.5405 BRA 2000
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. You might also like Flyboys by this same author.

Milkweed 
By Jerry Spinelli
YAF SPINELLI
Captures the hardships and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II, through the eyes of a Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable events and circumstances.

Boy in the Striped Pajamas 
By John Boyne
YAF BOYNE
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.