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JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
Stories and Where They Live
WAS - WMCHS Summer Reading 2023
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
Stories and Where They Live
WAS - WMCHS Summer Reading 2023
Description
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. Includes readers' guide.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
8) In my pocket
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
11) Hitler's canary
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton participate in the Danish Resistance during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st edición.
Language
Español
Description
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.
14) Isabel's war
Author
Series
A Lizzie Skurnick original volume 16
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel has no interest in the war in Europe until her family welcomes Helga, a German war refugee, into their home in the Bronx.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.
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