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2) Walls
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
3) The auslñder
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter, an orphan in Warsaw, is adopted by German professor Kaltenbach and his wife who believe the boy to be a fine specimen of Hitler Youth, but Peter begins to develop his own ideas in opposition to the Nazis, which is not a popular position in Berlin in 1943.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a story of hope, courage, romance, and the power of music not only to change lives, but to save them"--...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany--Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real, but the two teenagers are desperate to escape their lives...
6) White Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Its 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city's Jews, but even Paul's parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when hes starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust--one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--
10) The book thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
12) Wait for me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1945, Lorna risks everything for love when she begins to fall for Paul, the German POW sent to work on her father's farm.
13) The arsonist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
14) Bluebird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis took it over after their invasion of Belgium in 1940. Never designated an official concentration camp by the SS and instead labeled a "reception" camp where prisoners were held until they were either released or transported, Breendonk was no less brutal. About 3,600...
18) The project
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering a terrible secret hidden in the most boring book in the world, Iowa fifteen-year-olds Luke and Tommy find out that members of a secret Nazi organization intend to use this information to rewrite history.
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