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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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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.
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In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided. Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across Berlin Wall and into the West. Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He's glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend...
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English
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In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets...
4) Germany
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents information on the European country of Germany, including its geography and climate, history, wildlife, economy, government, people, and religion and culture.
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English
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic city.
It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London.
Berlin Now is a longtime Berliner's bright, bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath...
7) 1933
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English
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"Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler's consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella Fromm, a glamorous German society columnist who was Jewish and made no secret of it; Ernest Hanfstaengl, Hitler's somewhat buffoonish foreign-press chief;...
10) Germany
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes how the culture of Germany is reflected in its many festivals, including St. Martin's Day, Walpurgis Night, and Oktoberfest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In Berlin in 1989, the Cold War seems to be coming to an end but thirteen-year-old Liesl still feels trapped behind a wall as she tries to uncover a secret about her American grandfather, aided by a boy whose father is in the United States Air Force.
13) A night divided
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
14) Beetle bunker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In 1961, thirteen-year-old Sabine, an adventurer despite being crippled by polio, finds a forgotten bunker which might allow her, her family, and friends to reach freedom by tunneling under the Berlin Wall, or might lead to far greater danger.
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English
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Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, Joseph Kanon's The Good German, now a major motion picture, is a brilliant thriller about the end of one war and the beginning of another, by the bestselling author of Los Alamos.
Berlin, 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while...
16) Dr. Faustus
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English
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Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance.
Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and...
17) Berlin
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, culture, people, daily life, and points of interest of Germany's major city.
18) City of Shadows
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English
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A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.
. . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . .
This is 1922 Berlin.
One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working...
20) Germany
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Raintree-Steck Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
An illustrated introduction to the geography, people, family life, food, schools, industry, and famous landmarks of Germany.
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