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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century travelers impart the tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee, and a psychic peasant girl with a loyal greyhound, the three of whom join forces on a chase through France to escape persecution.
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.
Author
Series
Sean Rosen books volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sean continues to work on his screenplay while juggling seventh grade, track practice, a dog-walking job, recording his podcasts, and trying to keep his movie idea a secret from his parents and a private detective sent by a Hollywood movie studio.
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
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"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"--
12) The harmonica
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration camp, keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders him to play.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
Author
Series
Anya volume 1
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
A Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book Sydney Taylor Honor winner Anya and the Dragon, the first in a duology, is a lush tale of magic and dragons, a gem for any adventure-seeking middle grade reader. Anya and the Dragon is the story of fantasy and mayhem in tenth century Eastern...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When tram conductor, Hans, and ticket collector, Lars, claim that Beatrice, is their niece they save her from the same fate of her mother, but open themselves up to the dangers of hiding a Jewish child in 1940's Amsterdam.
Ordinary citizens risk everything to save a young Jewish girl in wartime Holland. This suspenseful novel vividly portrays the fear, uncertainty, and terror of the Nazi occupation in Holland. It is a story that reflects both the...
Author
Series
Rookskill Castle volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With tensions in Prague rising at the height of World War II, Isaac Wolf is forced to leave home with nothing more than a small backpack and a pendant in the shape of an eternity knot. His parents believe the pendant will keep him safe--if he can discover what it really means. This clue leads him to Rookskill Castle, home of the Special Alternative Intelligence Unit where gifted children can learn to harness their powers to support the Allies' cause....
18) Adam and Thomas
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II, take refuge in the forest where they learn to forage and survive, soon meeting and helping other fugitives fleeing for their lives.
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young boy named Natt finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia during the occupation of the Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany. In 1941, life in Natt's small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grownups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there's a war on, of course, but he's glad their family didn't emigrate to Canada when they had a chance. His mother didn't...
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he...
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