Mirjam Pressler
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
The story is one that is envisioned by many: a relative, an old woman who has lived in the same home for a lifetime, passes away, her death prompting the inevitable task of sorting through her effects by her surviving family. But in the attic in this particular house, a treasure trove of historic importance is found. Rarely does this become an actuality, but when Helene Elias died, no one could put a price on what she left behind.
Helene
2) Malka
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
3) Halinka
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
While living in a home for troubled girls in Germany just after World War II, twelve-year-old Halinka carefully hides her thoughts, feelings, and even her hopes.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Johanna, a German girl, learns on a trip to Israel that her family's successful clothing store was originally owned by a Jewish family and was acquired by her grandfather through the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazi regime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Formats
Description
Sensitively edited, the abridged edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. There are line drawings, lots of family photographs, and an afterword to explain why the diary ends so abruptly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.