Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1940s

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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,417 ratings
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The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) 4.49 avg rating — 111,813 ratings
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The Hundred Dresses
The Hundred Dresses 4.11 avg rating — 41,487 ratings
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Someone Named Eva
Someone Named Eva 4.16 avg rating — 10,070 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,616 ratings
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Lily's Crossing
Lily's Crossing 3.87 avg rating — 9,709 ratings
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Meet Molly: An American Girl (American Girls: Molly, #1)
Meet Molly: An American Girl (American Girls: Molly, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 10,581 ratings
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
Good Night, Mr. Tom 4.32 avg rating — 52,251 ratings
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The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 7,868 ratings
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Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 3.85 avg rating — 3,897 ratings
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Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein
Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein 3.89 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Welcome to Molly's World · 1944: Growing Up in World War Two America
Welcome to Molly's World · 1944: Growing Up in World War Two America 4.24 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself 3.96 avg rating — 15,528 ratings
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Breathing Room
Breathing Room 4.21 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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Changes for Molly: A Winter Story (American Girls: Molly, #6)
Changes for Molly: A Winter Story (American Girls: Molly, #6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,649 ratings
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Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story (American Girls: Molly, #2)
Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story (American Girls: Molly, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
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The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating — 61,489 ratings
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Carrie's War
Carrie's War 3.92 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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Back Home
Back Home 4.17 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
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An Elephant in the Garden
An Elephant in the Garden 4.19 avg rating — 11,939 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating — 16,226 ratings
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The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)
The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2) 4.48 avg rating — 45,499 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
The Upstairs Room 3.84 avg rating — 12,069 ratings
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Exiles from the War: The War Guest Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss
Exiles from the War: The War Guest Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss 3.94 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls: Molly, #3)
Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls: Molly, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
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Lizzie and the Lost Baby
Lizzie and the Lost Baby 3.66 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill 3.98 avg rating — 2,398 ratings
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 23,724 ratings
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The Dragonfly Pool
The Dragonfly Pool 4.06 avg rating — 5,345 ratings
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The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 9,682 ratings
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The Light in the Cellar: A Molly Mystery
The Light in the Cellar: A Molly Mystery 4.09 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Jacob Have I Loved
Jacob Have I Loved 3.69 avg rating — 35,651 ratings
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Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 28,922 ratings
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Journey Home
Journey Home 3.68 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
Under the Blood-Red Sun 3.82 avg rating — 3,620 ratings
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Sylvia & Aki
Sylvia & Aki really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 3.70 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Voices at Whisper Bend (American Girl History Mysteries, #4)
Voices at Whisper Bend (American Girl History Mysteries, #4) 3.86 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Cay (The Cay, #1)
The Cay (The Cay, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 37,822 ratings
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A Place to Hang the Moon
A Place to Hang the Moon 4.57 avg rating — 21,334 ratings
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Keep Smiling Through
Keep Smiling Through 3.65 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,404 ratings
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White Sands, Red Menace (Green Glass, #2)
White Sands, Red Menace (Green Glass, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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The Safest Lie
The Safest Lie 4.18 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Willow Run
Willow Run 3.75 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Weedflower
Weedflower 3.92 avg rating — 4,884 ratings
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Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Molly, #5)
Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Molly, #5) 4.02 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
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Happy Birthday, Molly: A Springtime Story (American Girls: Molly, #4)
Happy Birthday, Molly: A Springtime Story (American Girls: Molly, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 3,830 ratings
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The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 3.76 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 4.17 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
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Paper Wishes
Paper Wishes 4.04 avg rating — 3,449 ratings
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 41,352 ratings
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Beholding Bee
Beholding Bee 4.02 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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All the Way Home
All the Way Home 3.94 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Sky Is Falling (The Guests of War Trilogy, #1)
The Sky Is Falling (The Guests of War Trilogy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 3,878 ratings
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My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War 1939-1945
My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War 1939-1945 4.40 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story 4.25 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
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Stonestruck
Stonestruck 3.55 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Journey to Topaz
Journey to Topaz 3.87 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 4.06 avg rating — 2,250 ratings
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One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss 4.04 avg rating — 3,244 ratings
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The Children of the King
The Children of the King 3.59 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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Little Audrey
Little Audrey 3.84 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia 4.04 avg rating — 7,107 ratings
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The Lights Go On Again (The Guests of War Trilogy, #3)
The Lights Go On Again (The Guests of War Trilogy, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Behind the Bedroom Wall
Behind the Bedroom Wall 3.98 avg rating — 4,257 ratings
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Blitz: A Wartime Girl's Diary 1940-1941
Blitz: A Wartime Girl's Diary 1940-1941 3.63 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Ashes
Ashes 3.66 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 3.92 avg rating — 17,900 ratings
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Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi 3.95 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Journey Back
The Journey Back 3.68 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz
Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz 4.14 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Rabbit Girl
The Rabbit Girl 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Molly: An American Girl: 1944
Molly: An American Girl: 1944 3.98 avg rating — 5,453 ratings
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Dash
Dash 4.07 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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Hero on a Bicycle
Hero on a Bicycle 3.71 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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Molly's Short Story Collection
Molly's Short Story Collection 4.12 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Dust of Eden
Dust of Eden 4.07 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Friend or Foe
Friend or Foe 3.94 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Mystery
A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Mystery 4.07 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,436 ratings
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The Best Bad Thing
The Best Bad Thing 3.97 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Fairyland, #2)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Fairyland, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 10,524 ratings
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The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3)
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 5,588 ratings
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 2,870 ratings
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Clues in the Shadows: A Molly Mystery
Clues in the Shadows: A Molly Mystery 4.10 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (Fairyland, #5)
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (Fairyland, #5) 4.48 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1)
The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 84,465 ratings
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The Year of Miss Agnes
The Year of Miss Agnes 4.19 avg rating — 6,838 ratings
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Hunger Winter: A World War II Novel
Hunger Winter: A World War II Novel 4.04 avg rating — 516 ratings
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In My Enemy's House
In My Enemy's House 3.96 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Last Chance Bay
Last Chance Bay 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Victory Garden
The Victory Garden 3.72 avg rating — 165 ratings
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These Dark Wings (Ravenmaster Trilogy #1)
These Dark Wings (Ravenmaster Trilogy #1) 3.63 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Born to Fly
Born to Fly 3.73 avg rating — 919 ratings
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The Final Journey
The Final Journey 3.91 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Homefront
Homefront really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 3.88 avg rating — 6,597 ratings
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Looking at the Moon (The Guests of War Trilogy, #2)
Looking at the Moon (The Guests of War Trilogy, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
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True Colors
True Colors 3.90 avg rating — 203 ratings
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