The Red Umbrella

Invisible: A Graphic Novel

Black Queen

A Night Divided

Girl in the Blue Coat

Survivors of the Holocaust

Gentle Annie: The true story of a Civil War nurse

Lad: A Dog

Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he's been off fighting in Spain's Civil War, and his voice in her head is fading. Then she meets Mathias. His family has just moved to Guernica and he's as far from a whisper as a 14-year-old boy can be. Ani thinks Mathias is more like lightning. A boy of action. Mathias's father is part of a spy network and soon Ani finds herself helping him deliver messages to other members of the underground. She's actually making a difference in the world.And then her world explodes. The sleepy little market town of Guernica is destroyed by Nazi bombers. In one afternoon Ani loses her city, her home, her mother. But in helping the other survivors, Ani gains a sense of her own strength. And she and Mathias make plans to fight back in their own unique way.

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The Red Umbrella

Christina Diaz Gonzalez, 2010

Invisible: A Graphic Novel

Gabriela Epstein, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, 2022

Black Queen

Michael Morpurgo, Michael Morpurgo M.B.E., 2000

A Night Divided

Jennifer A. Nielsen, 2015

Girl in the Blue Coat

Monica Hesse, 2016

Survivors of the Holocaust

Kath Shackleton, Ryan Jones, Zane Whittingham, 2019

Gentle Annie: The true story of a Civil War nurse

Mary Francis Shura, 1994

Lad: A Dog

Albert Payson Terhune, Alfred Payson Terhune, Sam Savitt, 1919