18 Best middle grade books like The War Below by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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The War Below

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now, Luka has smuggl…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The War Below by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, … read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Prisoner B-3087 book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust

2. Code of Honor

By: Alan Gratz

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Live by the code. Die by the code? Kamran Smith has it all. He's the star of the football team, dat… read more

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3. The Boy Who Dared

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany… read more

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4. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By: Alan Gratz

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Irela… read more

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5. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Rescue book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Two Degrees

By: Alan Gratz

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is ridin… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Two Degrees book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and it's mother. Momma Bear will wreck you."

-Alan Gratz, Two Degrees

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7. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Iceberg book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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9. Allies

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Alan Gratz weaves an array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyran… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Allies book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
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11. Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America

By: Ruth Gruener

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents we… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Gruener's Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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12. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Words on Fire book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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13. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. A Night Divided

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.34

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's A Night Divided book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

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15. Ground Zero

By: Alan Gratz

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at … read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Ground Zero book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?"

-Alan Gratz, Ground Zero

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16. The War Below

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now, Luka has smuggl… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
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17. Escape from Chernobyl

By: Andy Marino

3.83

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From Andy Marino, author of The Plot to Kill Hitler series, comes another fast-paced historical thr… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from Chernobyl book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's not merely that life is fragile- but the plans we make, the paths we plot, all of it so easily thrown off course."

-Andy Marino, Escape from Chernobyl

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18. Resistance

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Resistance book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
"In the knowing, there was peace."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

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19. Resist: A Story of D-Day

By: Alan Gratz

4.09

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

Back flap copy: An exclusive, action-packed story about one girl's daring rescue mission during … read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Resist: A Story of D-Day book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Grenade

By: Alan Gratz

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Here it is! The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz's NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed pheno… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Grenade book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Conspiracy (The Plot to Kill Hitler, #1) by Andy Marino

21. Conspiracy (The Plot to Kill Hitler, #1)

By: Andy Marino

3.94

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding … read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Conspiracy (The Plot to Kill Hitler, #1) book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust

17 Best fiction books like The War Below by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Transform Your Habits

Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

4.27

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Rescue

Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

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Two Degrees

Alan Gratz

4.15

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

Alan Gratz

4.24

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18 Top fiction books like A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

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Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Refugee

Alan Gratz

3.16

Transform Your Habits

The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

Transform Your Habits

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Alan Gratz

4.27

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