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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the various factors which led many of Germany's young people to pledge their loyalty and support to the dictator and join the Hitler Youth during his rise to power.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
60 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving account of Jewish children from Nazi Germany during World War II that were placed on the Kindertransport to Britain to save their lives just weeks before the Nazis burned their orphanage down.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories in their own words of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books for Young Readers, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
339 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at a world-renowned conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister, Frina, and their entire family are removed from their home by the Nazis and forced on a long, cold death march. When her father bribes a guard, Zhanna escapes with nothing more than her musical talent, her beloved Chopin sheet music,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences in the Terezin concentration camp, detailing how, despite sickness and loss, the adults tried to make the children's lives bearable and she managed to forge lifelong friendships. .
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated biography of the young Jewish girl who, with her family and others, hid from the Nazis in an annex for two years before being betrayed and sent to a concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give...
9) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 p.: ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
10) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[29] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
11) Catherine's war
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the actions of the Polish social worker who, during World War II, defied the Nazis and risked her life by saving and hiding Jewish children.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen's home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max's family, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max and his sister, Zena, had Papa with them... Until 2 months ago, when the Nazis took him away. Now Max and Zena are on their own.
One day, with barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forests. They are found by Jewish...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, sixteen-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will she be brave? Join Hedy on her journey-where she encounters good fortune and misfortune, a kind helper and cruel soldiers, a reunion and a tragedy-and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
97 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.
17) The night war
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages : map, photograph ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--