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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
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight poems, each taking place on a different night of Hanukkah and following the history of Jews from twelfth-century England to twentieth-century Israel.
7) 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.
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.
10) Golem
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
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
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...
13) 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
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.