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1) The mare
Author
Language
English
Description
"Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationships over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road. Mare is the story of a girl and a horse, joined with a story of people from different races...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat...
3) Sittwe
Publisher
Jeanne Hallacy
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Burmese
Description
Banned in Burma (Myanmar), Sittwe is a story about two teenagers from opposing sides of deadly religious and ethnic conflict. The film gives voice to the youth in a deeply divided society, to create space for dialogue about reconciliation. Phyu Phyu Than is a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint is a Buddhist boy. Both saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Five years later, Phyu Phyu Than is languishing in an apartheid style...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times—from servitude, hardship, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition for the United States and Canada.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to racism and other forms of intolerance answers such questions as why people sometimes feel prejudiced and the effects this can have, the role of the law, efforts to overcome racism, and how readers can help.
13) Shoah
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director-approved six-DVD special ed.
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Muslim immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
16) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009, c1993
Language
English
Description
Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia led by Tuvia Bielski that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own family story, this poignant tale illuminates how three German sisters and their mother survived the Holocaus and emigrated to America where they passed on their legacy of love and luck to a new generation.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
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....
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