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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As a young girl spends time at her grandmother's apartment, she is treated to traditional Jewish tales, including "Bavsi's Feast," "The Golden Shoes," "The Garden of Talking Flowers," and "A Phantom at the Wedding."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt - a German who risked his life to protectJews from the Nazis"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate with dead people, including her grandmother who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she visits her Oma, Rachel, while going through family albums, learns the awful truth about the Nazis' rise to power and the hardships her grandmother, her mother, and her aunts were forced to endure during the Holocaust, discovering the power of love, family, and faith.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young artist growing up in an apartment in a school in France where her father is the principal explores small local mysteries before becoming gradually aware of her parents' conflicts and the realities of being the only Jewish family in town"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1166 the Saxon knight Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to a chaotic England ruled by the enemies of the absent King Richard the Lion-Hearted and finds himself disowned and dishonored, forced to fight for his name and the people he loves.
12) End of the line
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When tram conductor, Hans, and ticket collector, Lars, claim that Beatrice, is their niece they save her from the same fate of her mother, but open themselves up to the dangers of hiding a Jewish child in 1940's Amsterdam.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The St. Louis and its Jewish passengers are turned away - first from Cuba, then the United States, and then Canada. This was the tragic true history of the St. Louis. Denied entry from port after port, the captain was forced to return his passengers to Europe, where many died in the Holocaust.
14) Number the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peasant girl and her holy greyhound, an oblate on a mission from his monastery, and a young Jewish boy travel across medieval France to escape persecution and save holy texts from being burned -- Provided by publisher.
16) The bicycle spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Two explorers survey caves in the Western Ukraine and relate the story of how an extended Jewish family, fleeing persecution by the Nazis, lived for two years in a large cave, Popowa Yama, and survived the war.
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