Personalizing the children who belonged to Hitler Youth (1933 to 1945) with fascinating, chilling individual stories, this concise history begins with Hitler’s rise to power and moves on to the development of the movement, how a...

In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked aga...

Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave r...