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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor who ran an orphanage for Jewish children in Poland and was eventually executed by the Nazis along with his staff and wards.
Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The story of the last Canadian airlift rescue operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of the 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archival photographs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices and a huge family secret. It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging...
66) The Night Raven
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she's about to prove it. It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But atleast the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Phillipine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies.
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