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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
3) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 19 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
391, 11 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
During the winter of 1939, after Nazis invade Poland, Danusha and her family flee to Krak�ow where her mother, Anna, secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion--a place where she comes to a startling revelation about a mother's love and protection.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
417 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow abundant, the bird weaves a garland for the girl to wear...
10) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on a true story [in which] a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two families and a German soldier--all unbeknownst to each other--in a tiny two-room house in Sokal, Poland, during the Nazi invasion"--Amazon.com.
12) Once
Author
Series
Once volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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.