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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
2) Ashes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
3) Going over
Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1918 Berlin, Germany, sixteen-year-old Moritz struggles to do what is right on his newspaper job, in his relationship with his mother and sister who are outspoken socialists, and with his brother, who returns from the war physically and emotionally scarred.