The Champion of Children

The Champion of Children: The story of Janusz Korczak 2009
This books details Korczak, a Pole who started an orphange. His theories were to love and take care of each child. He was a champion of children's rights that are reflected in the UN Rights of the Child. Korczak had to take his children into the Warsaw ghetto in World War II and he and the children dies in Treblinka extermination camp.

Green Glass Sea

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages is a recent historical fiction. It tells of the families at Los Alamos during World War II. Dewey is main character living with her engineer father. She loves to build things and regularly visits the dump for parts. The books has a feel for the time and the project, but it also shows the need for friends and a family. The sequel is White Sands, Red Menace that continues the story past the war.