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The Book Thief
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
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"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)

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The Book Thief
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)

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Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
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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)

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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
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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)

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Number the Stars
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
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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)

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Friedrich (70 Edition)
Friedrich (70 Edition)
by Hans P. Richter
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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)

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Daniel Half Human
Daniel Half Human
by David Chotjewitz
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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)

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Shanghai Shadows
Shanghai Shadows
by Lois Ruby
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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)

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Milkweed
Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli
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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)

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Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-In Edition)
by John Boyne
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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)

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Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
by Susan Rubin
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"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)

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Man From the Other Side (91 Edition)
Man From the Other Side (91 Edition)
by Uri Orlev
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"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)

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The Berlin Boxing Club
The Berlin Boxing Club
by Robert Sharenow
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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)

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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
by Eve Bunting
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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)

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Escaping Into the Night
Escaping Into the Night
by D Dina Friedman
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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)

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Is It Night or Day?
Is It Night or Day?
by Fern Schumer Chapman
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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)

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The Doll with the Yellow Star
The Doll with the Yellow Star
by Yona Zeld Mcdonough
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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)

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Run, Boy, Run
Run, Boy, Run
by Uri Orlev
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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)

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Journey to America
Journey to America
by Sonia Levitin
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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)

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The Lily Cupboard
The Lily Cupboard
by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
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New York Public Library's “ One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing”... (read more)

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