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The White Rose Resists: A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler
Amanda Barratt - Kregel Publications
Format: Paperback
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Inspired by the incredible true story of a group of ordinary men and women who dared to stand against evilThe ideal of a new Germany swept up Sophie Scholl in a maelstrom of patriotic fervor--that is, until she realized the truth behind Hitler's machinations for the fatherland. Now she and other... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Interweaving handwritten text and art in his signature style, John Hendrix tells the fascinating story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German... |
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. David Fickling Books,2006 |
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A Brief History of Montmaray
Michelle Cooper - Knopf Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings."Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday,... |
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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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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Laura Hillman - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn. Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo... |
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington PostLina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home,... |
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Doreen Rappaport - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium,... |
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Flygirl
Sherri L. Smith - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers; Fifth or Later Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Read Sherri L. Smiths posts on the Penguin BlogIda Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didnt stop him from fulfilling his dreams. But her daddys gone now, and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her. When America enters the war with Germany... |
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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein - Hyperion
Format: Print book
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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand... |
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Night; with Connections
RINEHART AND WINSTON HOLT - Holt
Format: Book
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An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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In Everyman's Library for the first time - one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl... |
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Lovely War
Julie Berry - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of... |
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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Received 4 Starred Reviews Based on the real-life experience of Dita Kraus, imprisoned in Auschwitz by the Nazis, this is the incredible story of a fourteen-year-old girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human... |
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Lagrimas en el mar / Salt to the sea
Ruta Sepetys - Maeva Ediciones S A
Format: Paperback
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Told in four voices, this novel is based on the tragic sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945. It brilliantly captures the despair and chaos of refugees at the end of World War II as the Soviet troops advanced towards East Prussia. |
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The Girl with the Red Balloon
KATHERINE LOCKE - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall - but even to the balloon... |
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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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