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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The book is the culmination of 5 years of research into one of the most heartening events of World War II. The book's journey began with an e-mail from Rona's son, Daniel: "Mom, read this article and then show it to Dad." The article was titled "A Train Near Magdeburg." The instant Rona opened the link, she knew the article was about the death train from which her husband Paul, then a child, was liberated by the US Army on April 13, 1945. The Last...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children and young people who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors courage. These...
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 5
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source material along with historical narrative to explore the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between July 1943 to April 1945.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of stories from World War II, culled from eyewitness accounts, archival images, detailed maps, and a timeline of key events that paint a vivid picture of daily life in wartime as experienced by children who lived through it.
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