YA Fiction set in the 1940s

1.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,342 ratings
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,856 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,418 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,793 ratings
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Rose Under Fire
Rose Under Fire 4.12 avg rating — 23,854 ratings
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,336,884 ratings
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat 4.03 avg rating — 44,915 ratings
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The FitzOsbornes at War
The FitzOsbornes at War 4.20 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,704 ratings
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Violins of Autumn
Violins of Autumn 3.79 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 17,691 ratings
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Nadya's War
Nadya's War 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Wait for Me
Wait for Me 4.08 avg rating — 3,499 ratings
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Briar Rose
Briar Rose 3.80 avg rating — 14,984 ratings
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Climbing the Stairs
Climbing the Stairs 3.87 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
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The Wrong Boy
The Wrong Boy
by: Suzy Zail
4.11 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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What I Saw and How I Lied
What I Saw and How I Lied 3.53 avg rating — 15,029 ratings
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Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 249,673 ratings
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The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating — 61,490 ratings
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A Moment Comes
A Moment Comes 3.65 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance 3.75 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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My Family for the War
My Family for the War 4.27 avg rating — 2,377 ratings
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Flygirl
Flygirl 3.96 avg rating — 9,016 ratings
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Two Suns in the Sky
Two Suns in the Sky 3.67 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Queen of Hearts: Coming of Age in a Hospital Bed
Queen of Hearts: Coming of Age in a Hospital Bed 3.66 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Annexed
Annexed 3.78 avg rating — 5,262 ratings
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28 Tage lang
28 Tage lang 4.28 avg rating — 4,368 ratings
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Drawn from Memory
Drawn from Memory 4.56 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Anya's War
Anya's War 3.36 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Paper Hearts
Paper Hearts 4.22 avg rating — 2,680 ratings
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 4.19 avg rating — 23,341 ratings
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The Girl Is Murder (The Girl is Murder, #1)
The Girl Is Murder (The Girl is Murder, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating — 34,826 ratings
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 4.03 avg rating — 14,477 ratings
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Postcards from No Man's Land
Postcards from No Man's Land 3.66 avg rating — 2,682 ratings
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Soldier X
Soldier X 4.16 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
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The Girl is Trouble (The Girl is Murder, #2)
The Girl is Trouble (The Girl is Murder, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Extra
The Extra 3.49 avg rating — 646 ratings
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The Clearing
The Clearing 3.87 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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Breathing Room
Breathing Room 4.21 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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I Am Fifteen—and I Don't Want to Die
I Am Fifteen—and I Don't Want to Die 3.56 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel 3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Dead to Me
Dead to Me 3.70 avg rating — 894 ratings
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As the Waltz Was Ending
As the Waltz Was Ending 4.41 avg rating — 414 ratings
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A Little Love Song
A Little Love Song 4.20 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Seventeenth Summer
Seventeenth Summer 3.13 avg rating — 5,189 ratings
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Tamar
Tamar
by: Mal Peet
3.91 avg rating — 5,816 ratings
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Little Red Lies
Little Red Lies 3.17 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Forgotten Pearl (Timeslip, #4)
The Forgotten Pearl (Timeslip, #4) 4.15 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Mare's War
Mare's War 3.84 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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What World is Left
What World is Left 3.93 avg rating — 496 ratings
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After the War
After the War 3.80 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Rowan the Strange (Ivy, #3)
Rowan the Strange (Ivy, #3) 3.97 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Morning Is a Long Time Coming (Summer of My German Soldier, #2)
Morning Is a Long Time Coming (Summer of My German Soldier, #2) 3.33 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Forget-Me-Not
Forget-Me-Not 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Prisoner B-3087
Prisoner B-3087 4.44 avg rating — 42,701 ratings
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
If I Should Die Before I Wake
by: Han Nolan
4.06 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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A Bag of Marbles
A Bag of Marbles
by: Kris
3.79 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Looking At the Moon
Looking At the Moon 4.16 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
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In Another Time
In Another Time 3.82 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Under a War-Torn Sky
Under a War-Torn Sky 4.09 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 3.70 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Traitor
Traitor 3.54 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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Deep Sea (Faraway Island, #3)
Deep Sea (Faraway Island, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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The War Within These Walls
The War Within These Walls
by: Aline Sax
3.96 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor 4.16 avg rating — 5,500 ratings
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 25,319 ratings
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Molly Donnelly
Molly Donnelly 3.86 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Traitor
Traitor 3.75 avg rating — 328 ratings
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And Both Were Young
And Both Were Young 3.90 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
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Weedflower
Weedflower 3.92 avg rating — 4,884 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,531 ratings
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Delusion
Delusion 2.93 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Love-Lies-Bleeding
Love-Lies-Bleeding 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Hunt for the Bamboo Rat (Prisoners of the Empire, #4)
Hunt for the Bamboo Rat (Prisoners of the Empire, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Thin Wood Walls
Thin Wood Walls 3.78 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Love by the Morning Star
Love by the Morning Star 3.22 avg rating — 398 ratings
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It's Up to Charlie Hardin
It's Up to Charlie Hardin
by: Dean Ing
3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
78.
The Runaway Family
The Runaway Family 4.17 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
80.
So Close to You (So Close to You, #1)
So Close to You (So Close to You, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Homefront
Homefront really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Room in the Heart
Room in the Heart 3.71 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Dear Great American Writers School
Dear Great American Writers School 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
84.
Star Baby (Hollywood Daughters, #1)
Star Baby (Hollywood Daughters, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
84.
Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1)
Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis
The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis 3.87 avg rating — 236 ratings
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A Faraway Island (A Faraway Island #1)
A Faraway Island (A Faraway Island #1) 3.96 avg rating — 3,544 ratings
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For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy 4.14 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
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Grenade
Grenade 4.16 avg rating — 11,890 ratings
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The Hidden Village (Wartime Holland, #1)
The Hidden Village (Wartime Holland, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 5,612 ratings
91.
A Foreign Field
A Foreign Field 3.84 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Joys of Love
The Joys of Love 3.52 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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Heroes
Heroes 3.39 avg rating — 4,594 ratings
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II 4.35 avg rating — 21,127 ratings
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Pearl Harbor, 1941
Pearl Harbor, 1941 3.68 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Refugee
Refugee 4.37 avg rating — 78,605 ratings
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The Era of Courting
The Era of Courting 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Beachmont Letters
Beachmont Letters 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Insight
Insight 3.68 avg rating — 193 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Sun
In the Shadow of the Sun 3.84 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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