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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fianc�e is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation to a concentration camp. Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place, the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but also a community center, this hive of activity was an ideal temporary hiding place for escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages, including children....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with courage and the help of strangers Bronia became one of the youngest survivors.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Lily Ren�ee Wilheim, the Jewish girl who escaped from the Nazis through the Kindertransport operation, leaving her parents behind and traveling alone to England, later becoming a comic book artist in New York.
13) The vine basket
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflinn Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Things aren't looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She is a member of the Uyghur tribe, a group oppressed by the Chinese government. She yearns to be in school, but she's needed on the family farm. The longer she's out of school, the more likely it is that she'll be sent off to a Chinese factory... perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American who buys one of her decorative baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three...
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