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Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
The international bestseller that has touched millions of readers around the world is now available in a deluxe illustrated edition, featuring powerful illustrations by acclaimed artist Oliver Jeffers. Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day,...
4) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
5) The watcher
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
8) Abrakapow
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A New York City girl moves with her family to a Texas POW camp her father runs during WWII, when, during a magic show she performs, Nazi prisoners escape; she's the only one who can find and recapture them"--
Author
Series
Wolf by wolf volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this alternate version of the 1950s, after the Axis powers win World War II, Yael, a Jewish skinshifter, fails in her mission to kill Hitler and finds herself being hunted while trying to finish what she started.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, who is considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Prisoner of night and fog volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In 1933, eighteen-year-old Gretchen, niece of Adolph Hitler, reunites with her Jewish boyfriend when she leaves the safety of England to return to Germany to investigate a murder and expose the evil of the Nazi regime.
13) The project
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After discovering a terrible secret hidden in the most boring book in the world, Iowa fifteen-year-olds Luke and Tommy find out that members of a secret Nazi organization intend to use this information to rewrite history.
15) The enemy above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Cahill files volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A brand new adventure from the world of The 39 Clues!For 500 years, the Cahills have been the most powerful family in the world. For 500 years, they've protected the source of their power - the 39 Clues. And for 500 years, they've kept their secrets silent. Until now.This extraordinary stand-alone novel cracks open the Cahill vault to tell the story of the most coveted piece of artwork in the world, a masterpiece that has been the target of seven...
17) Emil and Karl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.
This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be known as the Holocaust. Originally written in Yiddish in 1938, it is one of the most...
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1942, blonde and blue-eyed Milada is taken from her home in Czechoslovakia to a school in Poland to be trained as "a proper German" for adoption by a German family, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
"A gripping tale of one girl’s struggle against the Nazis. “Remember who you are, Milada.” Milada’s grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But what do they...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
""Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can’t bring Chaya back from the dead, but he...
20) The shadow war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A group of teenagers fights dark magic and Nazis in 1940s Germany"--
"Inglourious Basterds meets Stranger Things in this dark and thrilling tale of power, shadow, and revenge set during World War II. World War II is raging, and five teens are looking to make a mark. Daniel and Rebeka seek revenge against the Nazis who slaughtered their family; Simone is determined to fight back against the oppressors who ruined her life and corrupted her girlfriend;...
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