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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates to his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
5) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Author
Series
Barco de vapor volume 114
Publisher
SM
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek ahd his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
8) Resistance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
9) Then
Author
Series
Once volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
10) Malka
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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.
11) Once
Author
Series
Once volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno decides there must be more to this desolate new place than meets...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Pub Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Language
English
Description
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, twins Chaim and Gittel rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto, escape through forests, and the horrors of a concentration camp.