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The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about HitlerBartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner... |
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Is It Night or Day?
Fern Schumer Chapman - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany... |
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Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel andArmin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed... |
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Annexed
Sharon Dogar - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peters point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding... |
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The Auslander
Paul Dowswell - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Print book
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When Peters parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. But Peter is Volksdeutscher-of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler Youth poster. The Nazis decide he is racially valuable. Indeed, a prominent German family... |
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Once
Morris Gleitzman - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents... |
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Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything... |
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery... |
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother... |
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The Diary of Laura's Twin
Kathy Kacer
Format: Print book
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Laura is about to celebrate her Jewish coming of age ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is "twinned" with Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Laura is to learn about Sara's life and then |
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Orphan Monster Spy
MATT KILLEEN - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world.After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full... |
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Room in the Heart
Sonia Levitin
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Told from several points of view, this novel reveals how life in Copenhagen was soiled by the Nazi occupation and how the Danes fought back with courage and kindness. Julie lives with the constant, nagging fear that her family will be sent to a concentration camp. Niels can't stan |
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Resistance
Jennifer A Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference.... |
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Han Nolan - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
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Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration... |
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The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss
Format: Book
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A Life in HidingWhen the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. |
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The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sydney Taylor Award-winning novel Berlin Boxing Club is loosely inspired by the true story of boxer Max Schmeling's experiences following Kristallnacht. Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin, don't care that Karl has never... |
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Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli - Ember; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A stunning novel of the Holocaust from a Newbery MedalistHes a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.Hes a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. Hes a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. Hes a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.Hes... |
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Paper Hearts
Meg Wiviott - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story.An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card... |
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Mapping the Bones
Jane Yolen - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest,... |
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Playing for the Commandant
Suzy Zail - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant's house. How could she know she would fall in love with the wrong boy?"Look after each other . . . and get home safe. And when you do, tell everyone what you saw and what... |
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