War Fiction For Teens

A.J. Gallant's book of short stories features powerful and emotionally charged narratives, often set against dramatic historical backdrops. One of the stories introduces Enzo, a courageous 11-year-old Jewish boy living in hiding with an Italian family who renamed him from Ephraim to Enzo to protect him during the Nazi occupation. Enzo harbors a fierce hatred for the Germans, particularly after witnessing the brutalities of war. His defiant spirit is on full display when confronted by a German soldier named Claus, who mockingly offers him a role as a messenger. Enzo’s bold and vulgar ...

Black Frost has the entire world crushed beneath his talons, and Grey Cloak and Dyphestive are running out of options to defeat him. They need an army, and will lock horns with their allies on how to get it. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the world, Zora makes new enemies unlike anything she has ever encountered before.

When Streak goes missing, the blood brothers embark on perilous journey into an unexplored cavity in the bowels of the world called the Rupture. Led by Zora, Talon’s quest for the Dragon Helm leads them north, but a vengeful Bowbreaker puts all their lives in grave peril.

Grey Cloak and Dyphestive find themselves in a race against time. They must save Zora and Tanlin from their captors and find a magic artifact with other-worldly powers. But unbeknownst to them, Black Frost’s minions pick up on their trail, and a new hunt for the Blood Brothers begins while an unknown army that cannot be killed rises against them.

Determined to shirk his training, Grey Cloak will do anything to refuse the Sky Riders' orders. He must fight for himself and for the life of his brother. Doomed if he submits and doomed if he doesn't, Grey Cloak battles his own horrifying fate.

The bad news gets worse for the blood brothers, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive, as they find out their old friends are either dead or captured. Survivors of Talon are held captive on Prisoner Island, and a rescue mission is mounted. The problem is, the only way to the dangerous, unexplored island is in the Black Guards' shackles.

Bent on a swift and quick conquest of Monarch City, Black Frost’s dragon forces strike hard and fast, pinning the heroes in an ill-fated circumstance. At the risk of being destroyed, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive choose to stand their ground and unleash forces so lethal, their lives will never be the same.

The necklace is safely stowed in the Temple of Harmony. Josh’s epilepsy is cured and he no longer has visionary powers. But the "Rebel Prince" is growing more and more powerful and looks increasingly likely to succeed in his mad plan to drive the colonists out of the Western Isles. What’s more, he has made a pact with the empress of Neustria, the great southern continent—where the colonists originally came from—and is sending his prisoners in barges to work as slaves on her estates. But Josh can’t understand why the Prince is still trying to kill him.

Josh, the young pirate Guardian, finds himself in danger again when pirates flock under the command of a man calling himself "The Rebel Prince". When they try to seize his Stone of Truth, Josh learns that his stone, which keeps his epilepsy at bay and gives him special powers, is just one of three stones that once belonged to the Guardian's necklace, broken by the Rebel Prince hundreds of years ago. The necklace was forged by the Guardian as a symbol of peace. But the prince didn’t want peace; he wanted to drive the colonists out. And now his descendent has the same mad plan.

Josh Flagsmith is a brave, epileptic pirate boy. Born with visionary powers, Josh is chosen as the Pirate Guardian, and entrusted with the onyx Stone of Truth, which he uses to control his epilepsy. But when a cruel colonist dictator seizes power and throws Josh’s parents in prison, Josh has to escape and sail to the island of Amaryllis to seek aid from the Pirate Council. Helped by his friends, Sandy and Megs, and the dictator’s cunning stepdaughter, Lavinia, Josh must find a way to rescue his parents and overthrow the evil dictator.

Grey Cloak and Dyphestive have tried everything to bring their greatest enemy to a dead halt. With one final valiant effort against impossible odds, they lead Talon and the Children of Cinder into the greatest battle of their lives, thinking it can only end in their inevitable massacre.

Even though he is gone, Mr. Aran still causes problems for the teenagers of Shadow Hills. A war is coming, some say, and only they can stop it, but do they want to do what it takes? Meanwhile, Robyn is thrown into a new love-triangle as Caleb makes a surprise move on her. Get ready to return to Shadow Hills.

Athens, 2018. Hunter has vowed to protect the witch lines with his life. As the leader of the prophesied trinity, it’s up to him to restore an ancient weapon of legend to break the eternal curse. But the magic brewing in his veins has other ideas.... As the teenage trio circles the globe in search of the broken shards, a sinister coven hellbent on stopping them follows in hot pursuit. But even as Hunter manages to collect every piece, uniting them might drive everyone into the very Gates of Hell.

1942. Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only family, a one-eyed dog named Lucky. Kind-hearted Mrs Plum is already looking after forty-six dogs for soldiers. She's becoming desperate because there are no wartime rations for dogs. Help arrives when thirteen-year-old Kat Murphy volunteers to take Lucky and persuades the girls at her school to also help. As Kat grows to love Lucky, she realises he can still see his master.

Spontaneous 15-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln's death, Gretchen finds an amnesiac Confederate in her garden and believes this is her chance for civic goodwill. But reconciliation is not as simple as Gretchen assumed.

Death and chaos have found their way to Dembroch. When all seemed lost, the Arx allied together to save Sir Nicholas from the King's Killer. Many warriors were lost, but the future king was returned to the safest shores of Dembroch - as was a monster. Deep within Sir Nicholas laid the dreaded monster Necrosis. Its might is legendary, its will unstoppable. And it's loose. Within the night, it could destroy Dembroch completely and it will only stop when the world is in ruin.

Tom Swift and His War Tank is an adventure novel by Victor Appleton. The United States joins in The Great War, and it seems like everyone has war fever. A military base close to Shopton is instructing soldiers in the art of trench warfare, while pilots are studying aerial combat. Everyone seems to be doing their bit, except for Tom Swift, which raises worries that Tom is a loafer. However, the reason he seems to be idle is that he has secretly been developing a new tank for use in combat.

With World War II looming, four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated to a safer place...but they don't want to go. They climb out of the carriage window and head back to Greenwich, forming an unlikely friendship. They spend their days trying to be useful. Laurence is building a secret machine. Gemmy searches bombed-out homes for things of value—only to find an adorable mutt she can't even give away. Franklin wants to join the Fire Service, although it means lying about his age. Olive looks after her father, who is broken by the deaths of his fellow firefighters.

This educational drama captures the experiences of a young World War I soldier who was touched, inspired, and changed forever by war poetry. Through vivid readings and recollections, we examine the work of 16 poets.

When Alice lands a new job as a talent agent that caters to all-human rock and roll bands, her world is turned upside down when a mysterious man captures one of her friends and leaves a sinister calling card. As she investigates, a series of unexpected circumstances threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully built.