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1) Sarah's key
Author
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1942: Ten year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel d'Hiv roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But Sarah has locked her brother in their favorite hiding place and kept the key, thinking she will return soon. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write about this black day in France's past. In the course of her investigation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition 2014.
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Physical Desc
76 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d'Hiver--a massive,...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, and Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo's slightest mistake could have devastating consequences... Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction award. In the tradition of Goodnight Mr. Tom, Carrie's War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and perfect for fans...
8) Stone angel
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Nazi soldiers in brown shirts come to Paris, a little girl and her family are forced to leave their home. They take refuge in the woods outside of Paris, and eventually must trek through the mountains and across the water to England. Yet all the while, the little girl knows that a guardian angel is watching over her and her family." -- Dust jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. Ordered to report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: bring Lucie with her to the camp, or put her into hiding? Believing the war will end soon, Vera chooses to leave Lucie in safety. She cannot know that she and her husband will have an opportunity to escape,...
Author
Series
Rashi's daughters volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 425 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Rachel--the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the great Talmud scholar Rashi--who is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in medieval Europe.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.
Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group of young teenagers stood up for what is right. Among them is a young Jewish boy who learns to forge documents to save his mother and later goes on to save...