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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's...
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...
3) Resistance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy struggles to survive... In this gripping new addition to the bestselling I Survived series, a young Jewish boy joins the resistance "partisan" fighters outside the Warsaw ghetto. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis--and fight back?"--
Author
Series
Holocaust survivor true stories WWII volume 17
Language
English
Description
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
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.
7) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the German folktale Briar Rose, also known as Sleeping Beauty, set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's 1938 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Paul is under pressure to join the Hitler Youth. Just when he's starting to despair, he meets a group of teenagers working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis: the Edelweiss Pirates. But, brave choices have consequences, and during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, Paul must step out of the shadows and make a life-changing decision. Inspired by the true story of the rebel group that declared "Eternal...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"--killed or "resettled" to concentration camps--she desperately tries to find a way to save her family.
10) The choice
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Hiding as a Catholic during World War II, Jakob reveals that he is Jewish, a choice that sends him to Auschwitz where he plots revenge against the Catholic friend that he feels abandoned him, but when he is liberated, he uncovers the truth.
11) Names in a jar
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Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa's bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war. With no hope in sight and supplies dwindling, Anna finds herself taking care of an orphaned baby. With a courage she didn't know she had, Anna...
12) The blood years
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania,... author Elana K. Arnold weaves [a] tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century--and one young woman's will to survive them." --
"Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family....
13) Artifice
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's...
14) Almost autumn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann Rød, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 2
Language
English
Description
The deadliest weapon is a girl with nothing to lose ... Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But her new mission is infinitely more deadly, tracking a lethal disease across bullet-torn Africa, to uncover the monster who would use it to create fifty million corpses. Her enemies think she is a terrified little girl. But she is a warrior set to burn them all.
16) Trajectory
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Language
English
Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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