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Language
English
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"Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. She starts by contacting...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
4) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
6) Saving Hanno
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rudi and his beloved daschhund, Hanno, face peril as they are being sent from Nazi Germany to England on the special trains called Kindertransports during World War II. Includes historical note.
What if you had to leave your dog behind when you fled? Nine-year-old Rudi has a chance to leave the dangers of Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. However, he cannot bring Hanno, his wonderful dachshund. Luckily, his family finds...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection--and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a cover, they form a secret society with a daring goal: to rescue as many Jews as possible from Nazi persecution. Though the war's outbreak threatens Elsa and Hattie's network, their efforts attract...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
11 books, 1 unabridged audiobook (11 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) in a cloth bag ; 42 x 50 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, one large print copy, one audiobook that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they...