Try these other books with boys facing moral decisions.
John Boyne (2006)
YA FIC Boyne
Poland, World WarII. Innocent and naïve 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon, he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising and tragic friendship develops.
Michelle Magorian (1981)
FIC Boyne & YA FIC Boyne (1 c each location)
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
Khaled Hosseini (2003)
FIC Hosseini
Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy
man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara--a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in
California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
William Trevor (2002)
FIC Trevor
Nine-year-old Lucy Gault is devastated when her parents plan to leave their ancestral estate in Ireland for a new home in England. As the servants are let go and the house is boarded up, Lucy decides to run away. But her disappearance sets off a series of misunderstandings that will change her family forever and will touch each inhabitant of her village.
Three of these books have been made into movies. Do you know which ones?
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