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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes: In this allegory of war, the upstairs cat is in an ongoing battle with the downstairs cat.

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.