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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
"The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes...
Author
Publisher
Avon/Camelot Book
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
From July 1942 until August 1944, a young girl named Anne Frank kept a diary. Her diary was unique. It chronicled two years she and her family spent hiding from the Germans who were determined to annihilate all the Jews in Europe
"The true story behind the girl who wrote the famous diary."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Telling the inspiring human story behind the creation of the Paralympics, this chapter book biography artfully combines archival photos, full-color illustrations, and a riveting narrative to honor the life of Ludwig Guttmann, whose work profoundly changed so many lives"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Surrounded by her large family, Loma is happy living in the juderia of Alcala de Henares, Spain, and wants nothing more than to someday have a family of her own. Still, when her intimidating grandfather, her Belo, decides to bring her along on his travels, she's excited to join him. Belo has the ear of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, and Loma relishes her adventures with him, adventures that are beyond the scope of most girls of the time. She soon...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Rache ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
"Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country...
Author
Series
Anya volume 2
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A letter inviting Sara's mother and grandmother to come from Poland to America and mentioning a mysterious photograph arouses Sara's curiosity and leads her to discover a family secret.
14) Eddie Whatever
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eddie's Mitzvah Project takes him to Silver Brook retirement home, where his assumptions about the elderly are upended by a ghost, a thief, long-running disagreements, and unexpected romance.
16) Golem
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate with dead people, including her grandmother who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt - a German who risked his life to protect Jews from the Nazis"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
In 1938, Lisa Platt and her family know something dangerous is happening in Germany. Lately, there have been more and more restrictions for Jews: yellow stars they have to wear, schools they cannot attend, things they are forbidden to do. When their neighbors are arrested for petty reasons, the Platts realize they have to escape. Forbidden...
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