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Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.
4) Torn thread
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
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
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
11) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
13) Black radishes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When France falls to Germany at the start of World War II, nine-year-old Claudine must leave her beloved parents and friends to stay with relatives in America, accompanied by her doll, Violette.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
17) Resistance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
18) Under the egg
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
19) The enemy above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
20) Odette's secrets
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.
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