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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father's encyclopedia collection, and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska's family survived a terror that they've worked hard to keep secret all her life"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cousins Beth and Patrick meet Lena, a Jewish girl from Lithuania and her extended family, who are Jews from Poland and desperate to escape Lithuania before the Nazis invade, but getting the proper travel documents is next to impossible.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two boys forge a brief and dangerous alliance in 1938 Germany. Friedrich Weber is a 12-year-old member of the Jungvolk in Hannover. Membership is mandatory if quietly reluctant on his part. Emil Rosen is a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Hannover. Restrictions on Jewish life are coming into force, but Emil is still required to practice the piano and study for his bar mitzvah. The two cross paths at a remote spot on the Leine River, Emil finding peace...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During World War II, families all across Europe huddled together in basements, attics, and closets as Nazi soldiers rounded up anyone Jewish. The Star of David, a symbol of faith and pride, became a tool of hate when the Nazis forced Jewish people to carry papers stamped with that star, so that it was clear who to capture. But many brave souls dared to help them. Jewish teenager Jacqueline Gauthier, a member of the French Resistance who had to conceal...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight, describing how she used her blonde hair and other Aryan features to assume a new identity and pass herself off as a non-Jewish woman.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called Out-With in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 125 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this companion book to "The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II," the author presents forty-nine poems exploring the themes of migration and displacement through the lens of his childhood in the shadow of World War II.
17) Flowers in the gutter: the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
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