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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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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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: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
6) The chosen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss,...
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Series
Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of Tätowierer- the tattooist - to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young...
10) The fixer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder....
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Orphan monster spy series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, Sarah, a Jewish teenager, agrees to help the resistance by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to the blueprints of a bomb that could destroy Western Europe.
12) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.
14) Exodus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury - the story of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.
15) Vienna prelude
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Series
Zion Covenant volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless ...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This compilation is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings--short stories, fables, personal reminiscences and an unfinished novel--composed during her seclusion from the Nazis during World War II. These writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne's wisdom and youthful imagination. An invaluable companion to Diary of a Young Girl.
17) They went left
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life."--
18) Enchantment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
American graduate student Ivan Smetski, haunted by the vision of a sleeping princess he believes he saw as a ten-year-old boy while exploring the Carpathian forest, returns to his native land to investigate and, with one kiss, is drawn into a world that vanished a thousand years earlier.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best ideas for school functions to which one will be their graduating class's valedictorian. However, in the twenty-four hours left they have as high school students, the two learn they share something much deeper than a rivalry."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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