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In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times-from servitude, hardship, and danger....
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Alan Gratz Read-Alikes
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
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Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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2010.
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English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
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A young Orthodox Jewish girl embarks on a fantastical adventure in this acclaimed graphic novel for preteens—"a terrific story, told with skill" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn't interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. There's only one thing she does want:...
Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn't interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. There's only one thing she does want:...
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"In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany. The Nazis terribly persecuted Jews and other groups of people. They murdered millions of Jews across Europe during World War II. A pre-teen girl named Anne Frank and her family managed to hide from the Nazis for two years. During this time, Anne wrote about her experiences almost every day in her diary. Discover the courage of Anne and her family during one of the most horrific times...
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[2014]
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First American edition.
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English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
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"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers"--
8) Anne Frank
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When she turned thirteen years old, Anne received a gift that would change her life: a personal diary. In it, she expressed her desires, fears and hopes while living in confinement with her family during World War II. After the war, despite her early death, her diary became a shocking testimony about the persecution of Jewish people, and an invaluable contribution to the fight for human rights.
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Joseph is his father's favorite son, and he has amazing dreams unlike anyone else's. But when Joseph's jealous brothers decide enough is enough, Joseph finds himself a prisoner in a foreign land, where he must draw strength from within. The well-known Bible story told in graphic novel format.
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Hereville volume 2
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[2012]
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English
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Mirka is back, and this time she takes on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. Our heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-park challenge ... or be banished from Hereville!
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[2018]
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First edition.
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English
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"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
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[2021]
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English
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". . . is the biography--in graphic novel format--of the courageous girl who hid with her family from Nazi occupants in Amsterdam, living for two years in a secret annex behind a bookcase. The story begins with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and chronicles the events of the 1930s and 1940s that led to World War II and the Holocaust. Every day spent in hiding brought new anxieties to Anne and her family, until the day they were discovered and...
13) A family secret
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2009.
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First American edition.
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English
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While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared.
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[2016]
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"Flying couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy Kurzwil weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a family, but also...
15) A bag of marbles
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2013.
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First American edition.
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English
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In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.
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