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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups.
"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up ... But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." -Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933
By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933,...
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English
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PMA Best Religion Book of the Year!
The inspiring guide to spiritual celebration used in hundreds of congregations-Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist-revised and expanded!
"Parents and their children acutely feel the social pressures that surround bar and bat mitzvah. But they want to feel the spiritual promise of the event, the pull of the divine, and the knowledge that they are participating in an event that has meaning both in the ancient...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
4) Trajectory
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English
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Publisher
Judaica Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"20 super stories about kids just like you! In a super-snowstorm, adventure is sometimes where you least expect it ... What do you do when you're trapped, alone, with the kid who's been making your life miserable? Can a girl who really needs her space find room in her heart for others?"--Amazon.com
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group...
11) Elnd aleynes
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Publisher
Tifereś
Pub. Date
Mena. A. [Av] 779, [2019]
Language
Yiddish
Description
In an early 1900s Yemeni village, Yaʻish and his sister Badrah grow in a happy spiritual environment, albeit not a wealthy one. However, crises such as the death of their father and ethnic hatred force them to separate and end up in America and Israel, with their own challenges.--
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Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust...