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82) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
83) Yes No Maybe So
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.
86) Ballad & Dagger
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
372 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A one hundred-year-old Holocaust survivor who, despite all he suffered, calls himself the "happiest man on earth," shares his wisdom and reflects on how he has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance,and kindness.
88) Dear Mr. Dickens
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all too common at the time: prejudice against Jewish people. Eliza was Jewish, and her heart hurt to see a Jewish character in Oliver Twist portrayed as ugly and selfish. She wanted to speak out about how unfair that was, even if it meant speaking out against the great man himself. So she wrote a letter to Charles...
90) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
92) Ivanhoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1194 the Saxon knight Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to a chaotic England ruled by the enemies of the absent King Richard the Lion-Hearted and finds himself disowned and dishonored, forced to fight for his name and the people he loves.
93) Thistlefoot
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
94) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 p.: ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they were trained, these army recruits knew what would happen to them if they were captured....
Author
Series
The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls volume 5
Publisher
WorthyKids, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Shepherd's Stone, Peter, Mary, and Hank travel to Bethlehem, where they befriend a young shepherd named David. Follow along as the trio witnesses the epic fight between David and Goliath, races to defeat a treacherous plot, and battles a familiar enemy. Can they solve the secret of the scroll before the Soldier of Darkness catches them?
98) Challah Day!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Challah day! It's challah day! Come and bake with us today! Mom and Dad and Baby too, we love challah--so will you!
A family shares laughter and makes memories while baking challah for their special Friday night Shabbat dinner. Join this celebration of family, food, and tradition, and follow along with the recipe too!
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer, who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community, has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.