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Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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.
2) 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
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
4) Forest ghost
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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 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. Risking his own life, he uses his...
7) 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
Language
English
Description
"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper...[as] Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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....
10) They Went Left
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
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As Alina Dziak dreams of her fianc�e, Tomasz, returning from college for their wedding, invading Nazi forces take hold of her rural Polish village, dividing the town's families by fear and hate.
13) The Polish girl
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
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In WWII Poland, two sisters fight against the darkness engulfing their homeland, one by entering a daring network of women sheltering Jewish children and the other by joining the ranks of Poland's secret army. As Warsaw buckles under German oppression, they must rely on the courage that calls the ordinary to resist"--
Author
Series
Auschwitz twins volume 1
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts having nightmares about smokestacks and doctors, Naomi is gripped by fear - the fear of a mother who realizes her daughter is in grave danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses of the future, and she has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that something evil is coming."--Back cover.
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
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising.
18) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.