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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. In this definitive edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl -- stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Witnesses to the murder of their families and the destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland became the nerves of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis. The Light of Days reveals the real history of these women whose little-known feats have been eclipsed by time." -- Back cover.
Documents the essential World War II contributions of Jewish-Polish female resistance fighters, sharing the stories of courageous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Helene Elias was born Helene Frank, sister to Otto Frank, and therefore aunt to Anne Frank. Ensconced upstairs in the house she inherited from her mother, and eventually passed on to her son, Buddy Elias, Anne's cousin and childhood playmate, was the documented legacy of the Frank family: a vast collection of photos, letters, drawings, poems, and postcards preserved throughout decades-a cache of over 6,000 documents in all.
9) The way back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
10) Draw the dark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.
Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. With her moms fighting at home, the store has become a welcome escape. When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna sees an opportunity to get her car fixed. The only...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.
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.
15) Once
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
16) Kristallnacht
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearly 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, schools, hospitals, and homes were destroyed during one night of brutality in November 1938. German Nazis and their supporters took to the streets of Germany and Austria bent on destruction. They burned hundreds of synagogues to the ground, killed more than 100 Jews, and sent 30,000 more to concentration camps. Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," would mark the beginning of the Holocaust.
17) Yes no maybe so
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate - as long as he's behind the scenes. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes...until he meets Maya. Maya Rehman's having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating and now her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing - with some awkward guy she...
18) Then
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
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