Books like Becoming Anna by Anna J. Michener

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

In Depression‑era America, five women form the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky, delivering books across the mountains while challenging gender roles, forging deep friendships, and confronting the era’s hardships.

An American college girl in 1947 discovers her belated quest to uncover the fate of her vanished French cousin during WWI, leading her to the shadowy Alice Network where a former spy haunted by betrayal seeks vengeance.

In 1970 a neglected girl named Genie is rescued from a secluded house in Los Angeles, sparking a landmark study into language acquisition and human development.

A widowed doctor’s family is shattered when his stepdaughter Anna is murdered, thrusting his new wife into a desperate search for the truth and uncovering a dark secret that shakes their home to its core.

Justin was five years old; his brothers two and three. Their mother a heroin addict, had left them alone again. Later that day after trying to burn down the family home, Justin was taken into care. Justin was taken into care at the age of five after deliberating burning down his family home. Six years on, after 20 failed placements, Justin arrives at Casey's home. Casey and her husband Mike are specialist foster carers. They practice a new style of foster care that focuses on modifying the behavior of profoundly damaged children. They are Justin's last hope, and it quickly becomes clear that they are facing a big challenge. Try as they might to make him welcome, he seems determined to strip his life of all the comforts they bring him, violently lashing out at schoolmates and family and throwing any affection they offer him back in their faces. After a childhood filled with hurt and rejection, Justin simply doesn't want to know. But as it soon emerges, this is only the tip of a chilling iceberg. A visit to Justin's mother on Boxing Day reveals that there are some very dark underlying problems that Justin has never spoken about. As the full picture becomes clearer, and the horrific truth of Justin's early life is revealed, Casey and her family finally start to understand the pain he has suffered...

Includes directory of national and local child protection agencies.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.

Everyone at Sweet Valley Middle School loves the new girl, Anna Reynolds. Cammi is convinced that Anna won't last long at school and when her prediction starts to come true, Cammi is the only one who can help Anna.