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Author
Series
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
42) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dueling baker sisters Esther and Hester meet their new neighbor Sylvester, who gladly becomes their babka tester, determining which shvester's (sister's) babka is the best"--
46) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
Auschwitz volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to less-appreciated movies like Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Danielito loves Januca. The kids in Bobe's neighborhood play with Mexican tops called trompos, and Danielito's dreidel joins the fun, making new friends for Danielito along the way.
50) Vienna prelude
Author
Series
Z)/. covenant volume q
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2005, c1989
Physical Desc
xv, 464 p. : 21 cm. map ;
Language
English
52) The blessing cup
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
Author
Series
Summer of My German Soldier volume 1
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Abraham Cahan arrived in the United States, he, like so many immigrants, had many questions. How would he live in this new land? He became a voice for the people. First as a journalist, then as the founder and editor of the Yiddish-language newspaper the Forverts (the Forward).
From explaining voting rights and the importance of public health measures to answering everyday questions like how to play baseball, Cahan improved the lives of countless...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Bubbie and Rivka's new Friday tradition is to bake a loaf challah, and while each week presents a new challenge, they learn that practice makes progress and persistence makes for some very special together time and delicious bread.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
60) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.