Title: Friends and Enemies
Author: Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge
Notes: When the people of a small Kansas town respond to the call of war in 1941, it causes tensions between them and the town's pacifist Mennonite community.

Title: Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
Author: Huynh, Quang Nhuong
Call Number: j636.293 H986w
Notes: When the family's water buffalo dies of old age, the young narrator is disconsolate. His energies must now go into raising a new calf. He comes to love this animal even more, but his idyllic life is shattered when the water buffalo becomes a casulty of war.

Title: The Harmonica
Author: Johnston, Tony
Notes: Held in a Nazi concentration camp, a young Jewish boy is forced to play his harmonica for the commandant's amusement. Although the boy hates this, he takes comfort in the fact that the other prisoners get some small pleasure from the music too.

Title: Leaving Vietnam: the Journey of Tuan Ngo, a Boat Boy
Author: Kilborne, Sarah S.
Call Number: j959.7044 N497k
Notes: Told from the viewpoint of a young boy, this true tale follows the journey of Tuan Ngo and his family as they traverse dangerous waters during their escape from Vietnam.

Title: The Upstairs Cat
Author: Kuskin, Karla
Call Number: jE
Notes: In this allegory of war, the upstairs cat is in an ongoing battle with the downstairs cat.

Title: Stones in Water
Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
Notes: When Nazis raid a cinema in Venice, Roberto and his friend are rounded up with other young teens. Under very harsh conditions, they are sent to help build a concentration camp.