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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne Publisher Comments Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Publisher Comments A moving and haunting novel for readers of The Book Thief Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina,... (read more) Your price: $8.99 New - Trade Paper
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments A new paperback edition of Lois Lowrys Newbery Award-winning classic. As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansens family takes in Annemaries best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Friedrich (70 Edition) by Hans P. Richter Publisher Comments The tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the 1930s, this award-winning novel is "superb, sensitive, honest, and compelling" ("The New York Times").... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz Publisher Comments In 1933 Germany, Daniel Kraushaar is horrified to discover that his mother is Jewish. Daniel realizes he is half-Jewish--and half-human in Aryan eyes. Daniel keeps this secret to himself. But when his friends join the Hitler Youth, it carries fateful... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Mass Market
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Shanghai Shadows by Lois Ruby Publisher Comments After the Nazis move into Austria, the Shpann family makes plans to escape. But the only place they're able to go is occupied China. Life grows harder and harder for the family, but they always manage to take solace in one another--"that is until a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Publisher Comments A stunning novel of the Holocaust from a Newbery Medalist He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-In Edition) by John Boyne Publisher Comments This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Rubin PW Review "Arresting oil paintings pair with vivid prose to tell the story of a Polish social worker who concealed Jewish children from the Nazis. In her third collaboration with Farnsworth set during WWII, Rubin reveals Sendler's harrowing efforts to transport... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Man From the Other Side (91 Edition) by Uri Orlev Publisher Comments "A Pole, 14-year-old Marek helps his stepfather smuggle goods into the Jewish ghetto, enduring trips through the foul sewers not from altruism but in order to reap lucrative profits . . . When Marek decides to help another Jew, his actions lead him into... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow Publisher Comments Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at his school in Naziera Berlin, it doesn't matter that Karl has never set foot in a synagogue or that his family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by relentless... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting Publisher Comments This unique introduction to the Holocaust encourages young children to stand up for what they think is right, without waiting for others to join them. For Ages 6 and... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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Escaping Into the Night by D Dina Friedman Publisher Comments Based on factual accounts of encampments that saved Jews during World War II, this gripping debut brings a footnote of history to center stage as it tells the harrowing story of one Polish girl's strength in the face of destruction.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Doll with the Yellow Star by Yona Zeld Mcdonough Publisher Comments A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesnt want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in America, not without her parents. But she knows about the shortages, about the yellow stars Jews must wear,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev Publisher Comments This Batchelder Award-winning novel retells the true story of an orphaned boy on the run in the Polish countryside at the height of the Holocaust, who must fight against starvation and widespread anti-Semitism as he desperately searches for refuge.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to America by Sonia Levitin Publisher Comments For use in schools and libraries only. In 1938, Lisa Platt, her mother and sisters attempt to flee from Nazi Germany to Switzerland, and then to America where her father waits for them.... (read more) Your price: $5.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim Publisher Comments New York Public Library's “ One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing”... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper
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