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Paper Hearts

Meg Wiviott · 352 pages

"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that?s based on a true story."--Amazon.com.

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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe · 432 pages

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.

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The Plum Tree

Ellen Marie Wiseman · 400 pages

In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.

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Run, Boy, Run

Uri Orlev · 192 pages

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You Are My Sunshine

Roberta Kagan · 356 pages

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The Lost Wife

Alyson Richman · 344 pages

During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.

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Daniel's Story

Carol Matas · 136 pages

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum · 496 pages

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by

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Briar Rose

Jane Yolen · 234 pages

Grandmother Gemma always told the story of Briar Rose, and after she dies, her grandaughter discoveres that Gemma was a real-life Sleeping Beauty - a Holocaust survivor.

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Rose Under Fire

Elizabeth Wein · 414 pages

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

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The Reader

Bernhard Schlink · 224 pages

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages

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The War within These Walls

Aline Sax · 175 pages

Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis. Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis. The plot contains violence.

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The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer · 448 pages

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The Earth is Singing

Vanessa Curtis · 336 pages

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Anne Frank and Me

Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld · 291 pages

In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. No more Internet diaries and boy troubles for Nicole-now she's a carefree Jewish girl, with wonderful friends a

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The Seven Year Dress

Paulette Mahurin

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne · 240 pages

La atrocidad bajo la ingenua mirada de un niño.

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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Livia E. Bitton-Jackson · 224 pages

So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life; a life rich and full that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. But these ado

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The Midwife of Auschwitz

Anna Stuart · 348 pages

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Alicia: My Story

Alicia Appleman, Hurman Alicia Appleman · 433 pages

From Publishers Weekly A young girl's experience of the Nazi pogrom in her Polish hometown is related with an immediacy undimmed by time in her autobiography. In 1942, the author and her family undergo a brutal separation. Thirteen-year-old Alicia escapes her captors, fleeing through fields and woods, encountering fellow refugees and occasionally finding safe harbors. Although she sees her mother

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A Sparrow in Terezin

Kristy Cambron · 445 pages

"Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairytale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her dreams

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Sophie's Choice

William Styron · 625 pages

The gripping, unforgettable story of Stingo, a 22-year-old writer; Sophie, a Polish-Catholic beauty who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz; and Nathan, her mercurial lover. The three friends share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.

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Winter Journey

Diane Armstrong · 467 pages

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