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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
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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...
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Lexile measure
710L
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Dina, her mother, and two sisters must contend with the invasion of the Nazis of their small Ukrainian town during World War II. With the help of a new housekeeper, Nina, they struggle to stay safe from imminent danger to the Jewish community. Based on a true story."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Presents a fact-based story in which Gabi and her young cousin Max, hiding in a hayloft to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II, begin taking late-night excursions into the nearby woods and come across information that leads to their involvement with the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
Siblings Helen and Henry know how powerful silence can be. In a desperate act to escape the Nazis in their native Germany, their mother brings them to a convent in France. She promises to return for them but until she does, they must reveal nothing about their past and assume strange new identities. Henry, traumatized by the experience, falls silent. It's only visits from a local mime, the children's one source of joy, that help bring Henry out of...
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Lexile measure
780L
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English
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History is made one brave act at a time. Henny has grown up with her father's boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and Sweden, carried along by the salt breeze. But when Nazi rule tightens in Copenhagen, Henny joins the resistance. And when Hitler orders the Gestapo to round up all Jewish citizens, Henny realizes that the Gerda III isn't just a boat-it's a means of escape for her Jewish neighbors....
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