Adam and Thomas by Apelfeld, Aharon 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2021)

BTSB #: P08579 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jewish children in the Holocaust - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Refugees - Fiction

Summary: Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II, take refuge in the forest where they learn to forage and survive, soon meeting and helping other fugitives fleeing for their lives.

Bar mitzvah boys by Uhlberg, Myron 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2019)

BTSB #: 897626 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Bar mitzvah - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Jews - Fiction Concentration camps - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Seventy years after he turned thirteen in a concentration camp, a man joins his beloved grandson in the Jewish ritual of coming of age when they are bar mitzvahed together.

Boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by Boyne, John 

Paperback(David Fickling Books, 2006)

BTSB #: 141572 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.8 UG RC: 8.3 9-12 Lexile: 1080

Genres:

Subjects: Auschwitz (Poland: Concentration camp) - Fiction Concentration camps - Fiction Nazis - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: In 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy who lives behind a wire fence.

Daniel's story by Matas, Carol 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00430 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres:

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Concentration camps - Fiction

Summary: Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Journey to America : escaping the Holocaust to freedom by Levitin, Sonia 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2020)

BTSB #: 567522 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 750 F&P: U

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jewish refugees - Fiction Jewish families - Fiction

Summary: The story of Lisa Platt and her family's escape from Nazi Germany and journey to the United States. A fictional account inspired by Sonia Levitin's real experience.

Journey to America : escaping the Holocaust to freedom by Levitin, Sonia 

Paperback(Aladdin, 2020)

BTSB #: 567523 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 750 F&P: U

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jewish refugees - Fiction Jewish families - Fiction

Summary: The story of Lisa Platt and her family's escape from Nazi Germany and journey to the United States. A fictional account inspired by Sonia Levitin's real experience.

Length of a string by Weissman, Elissa Brent 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 931577 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Adoption - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Families - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.

Let the celebrations begin! by Wild, Margaret 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 946472 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.7 LG Lexile: 650 F&P: S

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp) - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Amid rumors of liberation, inmates at Germany's Belsen camp create toys for a celebration near the end of World War II.

Mapping the bones by Yolen, Jane 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 973453 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.5 MG+RC: 5.2 9-12 Lexile: 790

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Twins - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Concentration camps - Poland - Fiction Poland - History|y1918-1945 - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Odette's secrets by Macdonald, Maryann 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2013)

BTSB #: 592852 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.3 6-8 Lexile: 580

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Meyers, Odette - Childhood and youth - Fiction Jews - France - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - France - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction

Summary: When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.

What the night sings : a novel by Stamper, Vesper 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2018)

BTSB #: 842992 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Germany - History|y1945-1955 - Fiction

Summary: Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.