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YA Books That Will Make You Cry
YA Novels in English and in Spanish/Novelas para jovenes en inglés y español
YA Books That Will Make You Cry
YA Novels in English and in Spanish/Novelas para jovenes en inglés y español
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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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 and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," was an event that was one of thousands of horrors inflicted on Jews throughout Germany and Austria in a single night and day, November 9-10, 1938. The Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues, and personal property and killed nearly one hundred people.
14) Saving Hanno
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Nine-year-old Rudi and his beloved daschhund, Hanno, face peril as they are being sent from Nazi Germany to England on the special trains called Kindertransports during World War II. Includes historical note.
15) Kristallnacht
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Examines the 1938 Nazi attack on Jews in Germany and the aftermath. Features photographs, a timeline, a glossary, critical thinking questions, and resources.
17) Max
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Born in Nazi Germany in 1936, Max is raised as the perfect Aryan but questions his teachings upon learning that his friend Lukas, a Polish boy snatched from his home to be "Germanized," is secretly Jewish.
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A historical fiction book about childhood of the internationally famous mime Marcel Marceau. To escape the encroaching Nazi army, siblings Henry and Helen are shuttled to a French convent where their mother promises to return and retrieve them, but until she does, they must assume new identities. Henry, traumatized, goes silent. It's only when he meets a local mime that he learns to find his voice again and help he and his sister heal.
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"In the summer of 1941, Irene Lorch must perform the most perilous balancing act of her life. Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazis has put them all in grave danger."--
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Chronicles the Jewish Holocaust and examines what life was like living under the oppressive Nazi regime. Examines what led up to this series of events and how it was eventually brought to an end. Includes photographs, illustrations, a timeline, a glossary, and further reading sources.