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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
The Boy Who Dared
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
202 p. 2008
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 Historical Fiction - World
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Bennett, Cherie
Anne Frank and Me
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
291 p. 2001
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Boyne, John, 1971-
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas : a Fable
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called Out-With in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
215 p. 2006
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Chotjewitz, David.
Daniel Half Human
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns that he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany is becoming nightmarish.
325 p. 2006
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World Authors
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Greif, Jean-Jacques
The Fighter
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness, plus luck, to help him survive the horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on the life of Moshe Garbarz.
211 p. 2006
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Hillman, Laura
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree : a Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
In 1942, Hannelore Wolff left the comfort and safety of her boarding school in Berlin, Germany, and volunteered to be sent to a Polish ghetto with her mother and brothers. It was the beginning of her long journey through what turned out to be eight concentration camps, including Auschwitz. In one of the camps, Hannelore fell in love with a young man named Dick Hillman. After a few months they were separated, but Dick told Hannelore, I will find you, wherever you are. He kept his promise. They were both put on Oskar Schindler's famous list and married when they were reunited.
243 p. 2005
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Ippisch, Hanneke
Sky : a True Story of Resistance During World War II : Illustrated with Photographs Documents and Letters from the Author's Collection
The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.
146 p. 1996
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Jackson, Livia Bitton
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
224 p. 1997
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Levine, Karen, 1955-
Hana's Suitcase : a True Story
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.
vii, 111 p. 2003
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Discussion Guides - Children's Books
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
Elementary Grades - Grades 5-6
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Nir, Yehuda
The Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir
Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.
284 p. 2002
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Opdyke, Irene Gut
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Recounts the experiences of the author, who as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
276 p. 1999
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Pressler, Mirjam
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
While doing a class project, a teenage girl discovers secrets about her family's clothing business that lead back to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
207 p. 2007
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Pressler, Mirjam
Malka
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
280 p. 2002
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Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961-
Sarah's Key
July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family by the French police, 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. Instead, they are brought to a concentration camp.
Sixty years later, an American journalist is investigating this black day, and she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah.
294 p. 2007
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Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967-
Yellow Star
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
227 p. 2006
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Multicultural - chapter books
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Russell, Mary Doria
A Thread of Grace
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as seemingly overnight it becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and Italian civilians trying to survive.
442 p. 2005
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Sender, Ruth Minsky
The Cage
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis in the Lodz ghetto, during deportation, and in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
245 p. 1986
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Spiegelman, Art
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
This graphic novel tells the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story.
159 p. 1986
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Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
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Spinelli, Jerry
Milkweed
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw and steals food for himself and the orphans. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, with tall, shiny jackboots and a gleaming eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.
208 p. 2003
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Historical Fiction - World
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Vande Velde, Vivian.
A Coming Evil
During the German occupation of France in 1940, thirteen- year-old Lisette meets a ghost while living with her aunt who harbors Jewish and Gypsy children in the French countryside.-
213 p. 1998
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