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Holocaust Fiction and Nonfiction | Young Adult Booklists. MIDDLE SCHOOL FICTIONAlmagor, Gila. Under the domim tree. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1. Chronicles the joys and troubles experienced by a group of teenagers, mostly Holocaust survivors, living at an Israeli youth settlement in 1.
Barth- Grözinger, Inge. Something remains. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2. In 1. 93. 3, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve- year- old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The boy who dared. New York : Scholastic Press, 2.
In October, 1. 94. Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti- Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. Bat- Ami, Miriam. Two suns in the sky. Chicago : Front Street/Cricket Books ; , c.
Against her father’s wishes, Chris befriends Adam Bornstein, a Jewish refugee, near the end of World War II. Bergman, Tamar. The boy from over there. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1. Avramik, a young Holocaust survivor, has difficulties adjusting to life on a kibbutz in the days before the first Arab- Israeli War.
Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and ten. New York : Puffin Books, 1. Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For freedom : the story of a French spy. New York : Delacorte Press, c. A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi- occupied France, worked as a spy for the French Resistance while training to be an opera singer. Deedy, Carmen Agra.
The yellow star : the legend of King Christian X of Denmark. Atlanta : Peachtree, 2. Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.
Fleischman, Sid. The entertainer and the dybbuk. New York : Greenwillow Books, c. A struggling American ventriloquist in post- World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust.
Author’s note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1. Friedman, Carl. Nightfather.
New York : Persea Books, 1. The young daughter of a Holocaust survivor tells of the efforts she and her brothers make to try to bridge the gulf between themselves and their father that has been formed by his camp experiences. Glatstein, Jacob. Emil and Karl. New Milford, Conn. Roaring Brook Press, 2. In Vienna, Austria, in 1. Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.
Isaacs, Anne. Torn thread. New York : Scholastic Press, c. In an attempt to save his daughter’s life, Eva’s father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war. Kerr, Judith. When Hitler stole pink rabbit. New York, NY : Putnam & Grosset, 1.
Recounts the adventures of a nine- year- old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1. Germany to England. Laird, Christa. Shadow of the wall. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1. Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization. Le. Zotte, Ann Clare.
T4 : a novel in verse. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c. When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen- year- old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world- as- she- knows- it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4. Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c. In 1. 94. 3, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten- year- old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Matas, Carol. After the war. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c. After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen- year- old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine. Matas, Carol. Daniel’s story. New York : Scholastic, 1. Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. Matas, Carol. Greater than angels.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c. Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon- sur- Lignon, France, during the German occupation. Matas, Carol. In my enemy’s house.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1. When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive. Matas, Carol. Lisa’s war. New York : C. Scribner’s Sons, 1.
During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Lisa and other teenage Jews become involved in an underground resistance movement and eventually must flee for their lives. Mazer, Norma Fox. Good night, Maman. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c. After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war- torn Europe, twelve- year- old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. Orgel, Doris. The devil in Vienna.
New York, : Puffin, 1. A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1. Orlev, Uri. The island on Bird Street. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1. During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life- threatening conditions.
Orlev, Uri. The man from the other side. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1. Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen- year- old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising. Orlev, Uri. Run, boy, run : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2. Based on the true story of a nine- year- old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi- occupied Polish countryside. Roth- Hano, Renee.
Touch wood : a girlhood in occupied France. New York, N. Y : Puffin, 1. In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi- occupied France, Renee, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renee and her sister escape to the shelter of a Catholic women’s residence in Normandy. Roy, Jennifer Rozines. Yellow star. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, c.
From 1. 93. 9, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1. Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland’s Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Sachs, Marilyn. A pocket full of seeds.
During World War II in occupied France, a young Jewish girl returns from an overnight visit with a friend to find her family has disappeared. Serraillier, Ian. Escape from Warsaw. Tandem Library, 1.
In 1. 94. 2 Warsaw, World War II is raging, and people live in fear from day to day. Ruth, Bronia, and Edek have to fend for themselves when both of their parents are taken by the Nazis. Can they survive? A gripping story based on true accounts. Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. New York : Knopf : , c.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. Vos, Ida. Anna is still here. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1. Thirteen- year- old Anna, who was a “hidden child” in Nazi- occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
Williams, Laura E. Behind the bedroom wall. Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions ; , 1.
Ten- year- old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna’s bedroom wall. Wolf, Joan M. Someone named Eva. New York : Clarion Books, c. From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1. Milada is taken with other blond, blue- eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as “proper Germans” for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York : T. Doherty Associates, 1. The tale of Sleeping Beauty and the dark tale of the Holocaust twined together in a story of darkness and redemption. Yolen, Jane. The devil’s arithmetic.
New York : Puffin Books, 1. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi- occupied Poland. HIGH SCHOOL FICTIONAtlan, Liliane. The passersby. New York : H. Holt, 1. 99. 3. As a teenage Jewish girl struggles with anorexia, her decisions about whether or not to live affect those close to her and are influenced by survivors of the Holocaust.
Boyne, John. The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable. New York : David Fickling Books, 2.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called “Out- With” in 1. Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Murphy, Louise. The true story of Hansel and Gretel.
New York : Penguin Books, 2. In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.” They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called “witch” by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.