Book List
There are many stories, fact and fiction, about the lives and the service of the people who served in World Wars I and II. Maya Angelou said “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” This Fall, learn about them as we recognize service, part of North Andover’s R.A.I.S.E. initiative.
Reflection questions
What was it like to serve in these roles? What was the commonality of their experiences?
What hardships did they face and how did they overcome them?
What can we do today to serve those who serve now?
Recommended Reading Fall 2019
If you read just one: Truce: the Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting Jim Murphy
Picture books
RAGS: Hero Dog of WWI Raven
Chester Nez & the Unbreakable Code Bruchac
Upper elementary / middle school
Christmas in the Trenches McCutcheon (fiction)
Harlem Hellfighters Lewis (illustrated verse)
High school and up
Women Heroes of World War I Attwood
Back Over There: One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War Rubin
Additional titles can be found in Stevens Memorial Library online catalog
Lower Elementary
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's
Most Famous Bear Mattick
Soldier for Equality Tonatiuh
Tucky Jo and Little Heart Polacco
Upper Elementary & up
Edith Cavell, Nurse Hero Arthur & Taylor
Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud and
Blood Hale
Middle School & up
All Quiet on the Western Front Vansant
(graphic novel)
And the Soldiers Sang Lewis
Women in the Military Goldsmith
High School / Adult
African American Doctors of World War I Fisher
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque
Beantown Girls Healey
Black Cats of Amherst Hamilton
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Mundy
Company K March
Dogs of War Keenan (graphic novel)
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at home and at war Hervieux
Given Day Lehane
The Hello Girls: America’s first women soldiers Cobbs
A Newburyport Marine in World War I: The Life and Legacy of Eben Bradbury Dorau
September 1918 : War, Plague, and the World Series Desjardin
Woman Who Saved the Children: Elantyne Jebb Mulley
The Woman Who Smashed Codes Fagone