MS Reading : G8 - Unit 3 - Connections Across Conflict

Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Includes readers' guide.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pyjamas who lives behind a wire fence. Suggested level: secondary.

Follows the lives of four people--a baker, a young father, a sniper, and a cellist who commits to playing Albinoni's "Adagio" once a day for twenty-two days in memory of his neighbors who were killed--trying to adjust to their new daily routines in war-torn Sarajevo.

Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.

Japanese American Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston shares the story of her family's experiences living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, and discusses the influences of those early years in forced detention on the rest of her life.

An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.

Nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.