War and conflict (secondary)

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The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

Subhi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The…

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Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong…

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Tamar

Mal Peet

Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tamar is Mal Peet’s astonishing novel about love, lies and secrets in a time of war.

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Dreaming the Enemy

David Metzenthen

Johnny Shoebridge has just returned from fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. He no longer carries a weapon - only photos of the dead and a dread of the living…

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Kokoda: Teen Edition

Peter FitzSimons

Kokoda, 1942. In the muddy, treacherous mountains of Papua New Guinea, a small force of young Australian soldiers - some of them still teenagers - are up against highly trained…

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The Gallipoli Story

Patrick Carlyon

An unforgettable and tough journey deep into the heartland of the Gallipoli campaign; award-winning journalist Patrick Carlyon digs past the myths to explore the lives and choices of the men…

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The Year It All Ended

Kirsty Murray

On Armistice Day 1918 Tiney Flynn turns seventeen and it feels as though her life is just beginning. Her brother and his friends are coming home from the Great War…

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On Two Feet and Wings: One Boy’s Amazing Story of Survival

Abbas Kazerooni

This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child’s-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in…

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The Boy with Two Lives

Abbas Kazerooni

When 10-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life, little does he know that his troubles have only just begun… His cousin packs him off to boarding school…

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne describes in her diary the…

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After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak

Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson…

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Alexander Altmann A10567

Suzy Zail

Fourteen-year-old Alexander Altmann doesn’t need to look at the number tattooed on his arm. A10567; he knows it by heart. He also knows to survive Auschwitz, he must toughen up…

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Prince of Afghanistan

Louis Nowra

Black parachutes fall from the sky: young soldiers - and a dog - on a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan. But the mission ends in chaos, and…

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Where the Streets Had a Name

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Thirteen-year-old Hayaat is on a mission. She believes a handful of soil from her grandmother’s ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her beloved Sitti Zeynab’s life. The only problem is…

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The Complete MAUS

Art Spiegelman

Tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story.

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Persepolis I and II (Film tie-in)

Marjane Satrapi

This book paints a portrait of daily life in Iran and of the contradictions between home life and public life.

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