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A safe learning environment which includes research information, articles, current events, pictures and videos.
Good research tool for elementary and middle school students of all levels. Also includes early learning resources for preschool children and useful resources for homeschooling.
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
Stories and Where They Live
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
Stories and Where They Live
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.
4) White Rose
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English
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Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
JEF - Jewish Heritage (Young Adult)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
JEF - Jewish Heritage (Young Adult)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
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Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
6) Echo
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
7) Projekt 1065
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English
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It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
9) Max
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Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Born in Nazi Germany in 1936, Max is raised as the perfect Aryan but questions his teachings upon learning that his friend Lukas, a Polish boy snatched from his home to be "Germanized," is secretly Jewish.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In 1938 Berlin, Germany, a cat sees Rosenstrasse change from a peaceful neighborhood of Jews and Gentiles to an unfriendly place where, one November night, men in brown shirts destroy Jewish-owned businesses and arrest or kill Jewish people. Includes facts about Kristallnacht and a list of related books and web resources.
13) The war below
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Series
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First American edition.
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English
Description
After escaping a slave labor camp, Luka joins an underground resistance in the fight against the Nazis and the Soviets, but he has two overriding goals--reunite with Lida, who was a friend in the labor camp, and make it back to his home in Ukraine.
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Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
"The epic story of William Ash and the escape from Stalag Luft III German POW camp during World War II"--
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English
Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
19) Out of time
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Series
Throwback volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Corey Fletcher, a time traveler who has transpeciated into a wolf, makes another attempt to fix his family tree without rupturing history, aided by Leila and Bee, another time traveler.
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