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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow abundant, the bird weaves a garland for the girl to wear...
22) The golem
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
[11], xs, [2] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II.
Author
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Harpervia edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their best friend Avishay, who is dead, is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics, his four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement and must decide how far they'll go to help their friend die a winner.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
25) The book thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle findss romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having heard about Thanksgiving in school, nine-year-old Rivka tries to convince her immigrant family and her rabbi that it is a holiday for all Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
258 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish, and must flee the country or be killed. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
Over four centuries...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Jewish boy falls in love with a fellow counselor at summer camp. A group of Jewish friends takes the trip of a lifetime. A girl meets her new boyfriend's family over Shabbat dinner. Two best friends put their friendship to the test over the course of a Friday night. A Jewish girl feels pressure to date the only Jewish boy in her grade. A crush's Hanukkah party goes awry when hilarious pranks and disaster ensure.
From stories of confronting their...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Publisher
Wilcox
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City.
40) Tikkun Olam Ted
Author
Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
For spending his days on such good deeds as recycling, feeding birds, working in the garden, and donating items to others, a young boy has earned the nickname, "Tikkun Olam Ted."