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by Monica Hesse
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsA tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.
by Martha Brockenbrough
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsNot since The Book Thief has the character of Death played such an original and affecting part in a book for young people.
by David John
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsA cynical English reporter and a beautiful, headstrong, American Olympic hopeful are caught in a lethal game of international espionage during the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsThe Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp.
by Edward Bloor
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsBy 2035 the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards. But the security around Charity Meyers has broken down...
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsTatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
by Mal Peet
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsWhen her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsGermany 1942: Bruno's family moves to a new house, where he he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own. Their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
by Markus Zusak
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA story about, among other things: A girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Ruby Award.
by Elie Wiesel
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsAn autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead.
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Published Apr 2001
Read Reviews"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence." An amazing, courageous, uplifting autobiography about a brave teenager who was not afraid to get involved.
by Lois Lowry
Published Feb 1998
Read ReviewsWinner of the 1990 Newbery Medal. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account of the evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark to save them from being detained and then sent to the death camps.
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