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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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"During World War II, many people felt powerless. They didn't have the numbers or weapons to fight back directly. So they used sabotage to fight back against the Nazis."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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November 1940. A circus parade walks through the streets of Warsaw, waving a flag and singing. They are 160 Jewish children, forced by the Nazis to leave their beloved orphanage. It's a sad occasion, but led by Doctor Korczak, their inspirational director, the children are defiantly joyful. Their new home is in the ghetto, a prison for Jews. Day by day, more people arrive. Some are forced to live on the street and freeze to death. Others die of disease...
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Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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"Discusses the liberation of Europe and the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the displaced persons camps, primary source accounts from Holocaust survivors, and how those survivors started new lives in new countries"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Miep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family"-- Provided by publisher.
27) Shanghai escape
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Description
Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in the world to offer Jews refuge from the Holocaust. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and under pressure from Hitler, the Japanese government in Shanghai orders Jewish refugees to move into a ghetto in an area of Shanghai...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, 16-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will she be brave?" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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Description
"Examines the Warsaw ghetto uprising, including the roots of the resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, stories from the participants in the uprising, how the battle ended, and how the small group of fighters became heroes during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
31) Anne Frank
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Anne Frank was bright, cheerful, and full of hope when her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The family, who were Jewish, had left Germany because Adolf Hitler, the country's leader, was trying to kill as many Jews as possible. Soon the Germans invaded their new country. Anne, her family, and four others hid in a tiny apartment for more than two years. Anne wrote in her diary about her feelings and experiences during this difficult time....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Once there was a renowned magician called Nivelli, who performed before packed audiences in the grandest theaters of Berlin. Night after night, his fans applauded and called out for more astonishing feats of magic. "Bravo!" they would shout, as Nivelli bowed low with a great flourish. But that was in a different, happier time, before the Jews of Europe were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. This is the true story of a young boy on the inside...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In 1943, years after the Nazi occupation of Denmark began, word spread of the Gestapo's insidious plan to round up the Jewish population and deport them to concentration camps. Angry at this attack on their friends and fellow Danes, many in Denmark organized and fought back, including a young woman named Henny Sinding. At only twenty-two years old, she and the crew of Gerda III, a lighthouse supply boat, risked everything to smuggle their Jewish...
Author
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
"Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
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Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
Facing lifelong separation, William and Ellen Craft fled north in disguise, risking detection at every turn, all for the sake of freedom from slavery... Douglas Mawson battled a power greater than any human villain when Mother Nature trapped him in her icy Antarctic jaws... In 1943, Nazi guards packed hundreds of Belgian Jews into train cars headed for Auschwitz. Simon Gronowski, 11 years old, was determined to escape... Three inmates vanished from...
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