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1) The fixer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The late Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, regarded this, his last work, as his most powerful. This nonfiction book in graphic-novel style examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of the Russian government, the forgery, first published...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Standing in opposition to a class assignment to debate Hitler's Final Solution, seniors Cade and Logan become embroiled in turmoil involving their teacher, principal, Commissioner of Education, white supremacists, and their entire community.
4) Front Lines
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"1942, World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War II, women and girls fight,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1640L
Language
English
Description
A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless ...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.
10) Hate groups
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines the historical roots of modern American hate crimes; groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Identity Christians, and the Order; hate speech in the media; and ways to prevent prejudiced sentiments from spreading.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The goal of this series is to enlighten children and help them recognize the ignorance of prejudice so that future generations will ve tolerant, understanding, compassionate, and free of prejudice through this historic accounting of how the Nazis forces gained political power in Germany.
13) The cure
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.
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