Books like For Freedom by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

In 1943 Copenhagen, ten‑year‑old Annemarie Johansen helps her Jewish friend Ellen Rosen escape Nazi persecution, learning courage and resilience while navigating war‑time hardships.

Eleven-year-old Melody, a girl with cerebral palsy and a photographic memory, cannot speak, walk, or write. Living inside her thoughts, she discovers a way to finally speak out, challenging the world’s assumptions about her abilities.

A nine‑year‑old girl named Ada escapes her abusive home amid World War II, joining her brother in London’s evacuation; she learns to ride a pony, reads, and finds a new family with Susan Smith while watching for German spies.

Mia Tang, a young motel‑dweller with a secret dream of becoming a writer, must navigate family, friendship, and cultural identity as she faces the challenges of a new school year.

El Deafo is a graphic novel by Cece Bell that follows a young girl who loses her hearing, learns to navigate the world with a hearing aid, and finds new friendships through humor and creativity.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

A 1943 British fighter pilot crash-lands in Nazi‑occupied France and recounts her daring escape, espionage, and friendship to a young French woman while concealing her true mission.

In the heart of Nazi Germany, Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador, infiltrates the Hitler Youth to spy for his parents and the British Secret Service, uncovering the mysteries of the covert Nazi operation Projekt 1065.

A middle‑grade story about Ally, a girl who struggles with dyslexia, and her journey to find acceptance and help at school.

Three children linked across time by a mysterious harmonica face family‑sacrifice and destiny‑bound quests in the forbidden forest, Germany, Pennsylvania, and California.

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, two young friends grapple with their fathers’ ties to the Nazis while secretly supporting the Dutch underground resistance.

Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony share tea in 1904, reflecting on their lifelong fight for freedom and women’s rights, offering a brief but vivid glimpse into the lives of two pioneering African‑American activists.

When 6‑year‑old twins Ellie and Helen trade places, a brief experiment turns into a lifelong identity crisis—25 years later, Helen faces the possibility of falling back into her sister’s shadow.

Seventeen‑year‑old Zenji Watanabe is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese. After capture and torture, he must endure months alone in the jungle behind enemy lines, fighting to survive.

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In 1944 Florence, thirteen‑year‑old Paolo secretly rides his bicycle through Nazi‑occupied streets, only to be drawn into the perilous world of the Italian partisans.

In Nazi-occupied Norway, Espen becomes a spy and a courier, rising through the ranks of the resistance.

Fourteen‑year‑old Roberto returns to wartime Italy, grappling with survival and ultimately joining the partisan resistance against the Nazi occupiers, all while longing to reach home safely and bring an end to the war.

During spring 1943 in the quiet English port of Garmouth, a teenage boy and his friends investigate a spy trail, uncovering who is secretly passing information to the Germans.

In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, three of them were murdered; by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers encountered a "liberating" exposure to new lifestyles, new political ideologies, and a radically new perspective on America and on themselves. Doug McAdam offers the first book to gauge the impact of Freedom Summer on the project volunteers and the period we now call "the turbulent sixties." Tracking down hundreds of the original project applicants, and combining hard data with a wealth of personal recollections, he has produced a riveting portrait of the people, the events, and the era. McAdam discovered that during Freedom Summer, the volunteers' encounters with white supremacist violence and their experiences with interracial relationships, communal living, and a more open sexuality led many of them to "climb aboard a political and cultural wave just as it was forming and beginning to wash forward." Many became activists in subsequent protests--including the antiwar movement and the feminist movement--and, most significantly, many of them have remained activists to this day.

A tense, sympathetic tale of Danish Jews and resistance fighters during Nazi occupation, following Julie and Niels as they navigate fear, hope, and rescue amid the peril of 1943 Copenhagen.

A young Shanghai girl, cast out by a cruel stepmother, joins a group of orphaned friends and, guided by an ancient book, undertakes a daring mission to rescue American pilots during World War II.

Seventeen-year‑old American Betty, studying in England, trains as a spy and parachutes into German‑occupied France to join the Resistance, where a chance meeting with a young American pilot forces her to confront the war’s brutal reality.