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Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nearly 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, schools, hospitals, and homes were destroyed during one night of brutality in November 1938. German Nazis and their supporters took to the streets of Germany and Austria bent on destruction. They burned hundreds of synagogues to the ground, killed more than 100 Jews, and sent 30,000 more to concentration camps. Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," would mark the beginning of the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Barbara Reichmann-- once known as Gucia Gomolinska-- was a Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and '30s. Her world was turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and established a Jewish ghetto in her town. Gucia's blond hair and fair skin give her an advantage, and she faced a harrowing choice: risk the uncertain horrors of deportation to a concentration camp, or certain death if she is caught resisting. She adopted...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Description
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the efforts of Jews who organized others and sabotaged the Nazis during the Holocaust, including Georges Loinger who smuggled children from occupied France into Switzerland and four brothers who led refugees into the forest to build a village and an army.
7) Once
Author
Series
Once series volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of a group of Jewish children growing up in the Czech town of Budejovice during World War II, who founded a newspaper to document their concerns and the problems they encountered as conditions began to grow worse.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Description
"The incredible true story of Michael Bornstein--who at age 4 was one of the youngest children to be liberated from Auschwitz--and of his family"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in the rescue of more than 2,000 refugees, including novelist Heinrich Mann and artist Marc Chagall.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
18) Then
Author
Series
Once series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
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