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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 333
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust. Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly newspaper. Even when Korczak was forced to move the orphanage into the Warsaw Ghetto after Hitler's rise to power, and couldn't afford to buy food and medicine for...
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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...
10) Hello, America
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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 Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Description
The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world."
14) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of Anne Frank, focusing on the years she and her family spent in hiding and the impact of her story upon the world.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Description
The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned...
Author
Publisher
Flash Point
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and trials of the Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a secret apartment in the Netherlands, and includes photos of the famous diary and her hiding place, as well as school pictures.
19) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
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