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Twenty and Ten
Claire Huchet Bishop - Puffin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II. |
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Play to the Angel
Maurine F Dahlberg - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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A budding pianist will not be stopped, even by NazisIn February 1938, in Vienna, twelve-year-old Greta Radky is devastated to learn that her mother plans to sell the family piano. Greta's brother, a concert pianist, died the previous April, and her mother thinks of the piano as his.... |
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Jacob's Rescue
Malka Drucker - Doubleday Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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After escaping from the ghetto in which his family is imprisoned, Jewish boy Jacob Gutgelt lives for four years passing as a non-Jew, struggling through the daily terror of being caught. |
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Emil and Karl
Jacob Glatstein - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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Written in the form of a suspense novel, Emil & Karl draws readers into the dilemma faced by two young boys--one Jewish, the other not--when they suddenly find themselves without homes or families in Vienna on the eve of World War II. A taut, gripping page-turner, it offers a picture... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles... |
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The End of the Line
Sharon McKay - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ordinary citizens risk everything to save a young Jewish girl in wartime Holland. Five-year-old Beatrix looks on in horror as the soldier forces her mother off the tram. It is 1942 in Amsterdam, and everyone knows what happens to Jews who are taken away by the Nazis. The soldier turns... |
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Snow Treasure
Marie McSwigan - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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In the bleak winter of 19 0, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lindstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated - until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Nazi... |
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Black Radishes
Susan Lynn Meyer - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner Black Radishes is a suspenseful WWII/Holocaust story, in which one boy learns what it means to be Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing. It is March of 1940. The French believe that their army can protect them from Nazi Germany.... |
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The Island on Bird Street
Uri Orlev - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions. |
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When the soldiers were gone
Vera W Propp - Scholastic
Format: Book
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After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and is reunited with his real Jewish parents, who returned from hiding and whom Benjamin doesn't remember.
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Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy - Amazon Children's Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1945 the war ended. The Germans surrendered, and the ghetto was liberated. Out of over a quarter of a million people, about 800 walked out of the ghetto. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. I was one of the twelve." For more than fifty years after the war, Syvia,... |
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The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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30th Anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author Hannah is tired of holiday gatheringsall her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that's what they do every Jewish holiday. But this year's Passover Seder will be differentHannah will be mysteriously... |
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