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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
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. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Anna was so busy with her schoolwork and friends that she hardly had time to notice Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. But one morning her father was gone, and then she and her brother had to sneak out of Germany. Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family try to find a home in several countries. Along the way they must learn new languages, new customs and the special skills required to be a refugee. But Anna...
4) Friedrich
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel andArmin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Thomas sets sail on a German ship bound for Cuba in 1939 along with more than nine hundred German Jews expecting to be granted safe haven on the island, but he discovers that although the passengers have landing permits, they may not be allowed to enter the country.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In 1938, after a minor traffic accident, seventeen-year-old Egon Katz joins an increasing number of German Jews desperately trying to find a way out of the country.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Operation kinderspion volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anna's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
In November 1938, young Ruth Block is a Jewish girl in Frankfurt Germany, trying to cope with the ever tightening noose of Nazi oppression; her father's stationery store has been shut down, and her school closed; then one night her family's apartment is broken into, and her father is dragged out, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp -- and it becomes clear that if Ruth and her best friend Miriam are going to survive they must somehow get out...
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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.
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