Books like The Kitchen Front
12 books with a reading profile close to The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan. Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Settled in an English village during 1940, the story begins when the local vicar cancels the church choir because all the men have departed for the front.
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2
The Light in Hidden Places
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In occupied Poland during 1943, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska works in a grocery store while caring for her six-year-old sister, Helena.
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3
The Downstairs Girl
by Stacey Lee
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1890s Atlanta, Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid by day and lives in a hidden basement beneath a newspaper office by night.
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4
The Four Winds
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1934, Elsa Martinelli faces a choice between staying on her family’s dying Texas farm or fleeing to California.
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5
The Women
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Frances "Frankie" McGrath is a twenty-year-old nursing student who enlists in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.
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6
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
history, narrative
Sage Singer is a baker living in New Hampshire who struggles with isolation and the physical scars of a past car accident.
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7
The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan, arrives at a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1791 as an indentured servant.
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8
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian is raised by her physician grandparents to practice medicine, a rare privilege for a woman of the Ming Dynasty.
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9
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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10
The Help
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, university graduate Skeeter Phelan returns home and finds herself at odds with the rigid social hierarchy of her white peers.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in Italy during the final years of World War II, the story follows Pino Lella, a teenager who becomes an underground operative helping Jews escape across the Alps.
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12
The Keeper of Hidden Books
Also practical and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1939 Warsaw, Zofia Nowak and her friend Janina find solace in their local library as the German occupation begins.
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