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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Originally entitled Children's and household tales, Grimm's fairy tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century. This selection contains 80 stories. Also included are more than 45 of Arthur Rackham's marvelous illustrations which inject new life into these timeless tales.
3) Projekt 1065
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
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Language
English
Description
"World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission--but...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Summoned by the Queen of England to save the world once again, trusty kid spy Mac B. navigates secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall to retrieve cheat codes from an adversarial scientist only to find himself trapped in East Germany.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother"--
Author
Series
Prisoner of night and fog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps train her in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart. In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in? Inspired by the true discovery of the two-thousand-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany, master storyteller Lois Lowry breathes life back into the Windeby Child, left in the bog to drown...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930s as they travel from Germany to England, when she realizes that staying together as a family was more important the hardships or poverty they faced.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terez©Ưn ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita...
16) Going over
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1980s, Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall. Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, who is considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East - with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc - controlled Eastern side. Then, just a month ago, Marta's brother became a victim of schiessbefehl, the standing order to fire upon anyone who dared pass into the West. With her family and nation both fractured, Marta will soon be faced with a promising - but dangerous - opportunity....
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