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1) Bee season
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
3) Remember me
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of a young Jewish girl's struggle to find peace in wartime Britain after she escapes from Nazi Germany, based on the author's own childhood experiences.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Hi, whoever is reading this. I'm Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy. Things used to be simple--until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I'm weird; and my mom is making me start preparing for my bat mitzvah, even though we barely ever go to synagogue. In fact, the only thing that still seems to make sense is magic. See, the thing is, I'm a witch. I've been casting spells since...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
"Shaindy is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. She watches with envy as her next-door neighbor, Gayil, excels socially and academically. They have little...
12) No vacancy
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. "--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
It's that time of year again--Sara's family's big Chanukah party. All the while she longs for Christmas lights and carolers in department-store windows. What she gets is a shiny gold dreidel from Tante Miriam and a warning to be careful, for it is no ordinary dreidel. Sara soon discovers that the dreidel is an entranced princess in disguise. Swept into a magical world, Sara must solve riddles and defeat demons in order to save the princess in this...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The author relates her experiences during World War II, when she was forced into hiding because of her Jewish heritage, and her eventual move to America after the war ended.
17) Two tribes
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan...
18) Anne Frank
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Anne Frank, including the historical events which forced her to hide with her family in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.
