January+21


 * 1) Michelle Magorian is the author of a book about an unhappy boy called William Beech who is evacuated from London to the country and taken care of by an elderly reclusive man called Tom Oakley. What is the title of this powerful book about WW II? (//Goodnight Mr. Tom//)
 * 2) This book by Patricia Reilly Giff is set in the US during the summer of 1944. Lily’s father has left to fight the Germans and she is forced to stay with her grandmother. Then she meets Albert, a refugee from Hungary. This book was a Newbery honor Book in 1998. What is the title?(//Lily’s Crossing)//
 * 3) Katy, the narrator of the book //Love You, Soldier// by Amy Hest and her mother are living in New York when her father leaves go and fight in WWII. The story tells of their life in New York during the war. What happens to Katy’s father? (//he is killed in the war//)
 * 4) Naomi, in Naomi’s Road by Joy Kogawa, is a child growing up in Canada during the Second World War. Why is she put in an internment camp? (//Her family is Japanese//)
 * 5) In //A song for Summer// by Eva Ibbotson, Ellen goes to Austria to run a school. She has to leave the country after the war starts, and returns to London. While she is in Austria she falls in love with the school handyman called Marek who is an artist in hiding. What kind of artist is Marek? (//He is a composer of music from Czechoslovakia//)
 * 6)  The author of Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah lived in China during the time of the Japanese occupation in WWII. This autobiography is an account of these times seen through the eyes of Ye Xian whose nickname is Chinese Cinderella or CC. Where did Ye Xian/CC live in China? (//Shanghai//)
 * 7) In this book, Annemarie helps her Jewish friends shelter from the Nazis. The author of this book also wrote The Giver (Newbery Award 1994) and more recently The Willoughbys. What is the title of this book and who is the author?
 * 8) In what city did Anne Frank write her famous diary? (Amsterdam)
 * 9) This book by Michael Morpurgo is the diary of a young English girl called Lily. One day the town in which she lives is forced to evacuate and her cat goes missing. What is the name of this cat? (//Adolphus Tips – The amazing story of Adolphus Tips)//
 * 10) This book by Jennifer Roy tells the story of a Syvia and her Jewish family in Poland during the German occupation. What is the title of this book? (//Yellow Star)//
 * 11) In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. The title of this book is Elephant Run. Who is the author? (//Roland Smith//)
 * 12)  In this book Sandi Toksvig tells tells the fictional story of ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend, Anton, who participated in the Danish Resistance during World War II. Title please. (//Hitler’s canary//)
 * 13)  In the book //Milkweed,// a street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in a Warsaw ghetto. This helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. Who is the author? (//Jerry Spinelli//)
 * 14) // Briar Rose // is the tale of Sleeping Beauty and the dark tale of the Holocaust twined together. Who wrote this book? (//Jane Yolen//)
 * 15)  Exploring a bombed house, after a German blitz, a lonely London boy makes a friend, whose father is a RAF pilot. His mind is filled with awe and respect, but he comes to realize the difference between heroism of fantasy and what people do when their courage is needed for real. The title of this book is //Blitz Boys//. Who is the author? (//Linda Newbery//)