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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
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 are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Operation Kinderspion volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy.
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Language
English
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Description
"Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country - or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed - and wake up the folks back home. In another...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, 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.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1933, 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.
7) The ring
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1989, c1980
Language
English
Description
The tragic affair of a German-Jewish novelist and the wife of one of Berlin's richest bankers in Hitler's Germany casts unexpected shadows that touch the lives of many people for generations to come.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
Author
Language
English
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Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of...
10) Carry me
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany. Coming of age in Frankfurt and...
11) Eva's cousin
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Marlene is delighted when her glamorous, older cousin, Eva Braun, invites her to Adolf Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where, in 1944, Marlene finds herself in an opulent and dangerous world.
Author
Series
Legacy of honor volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Series
Songs in the night volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A German pastor, Joseph Schumacher joins the resistance movement against Hitler, hoping to save his young parishioners from the evils of Nazism.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1931: Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately feels a powerful chemistry. Soon they fall in love and plan for the future. But Hanna is Jewish and Max is not, and as their love affair unfolds over the next five years, their love is tested when Hitler rises to power. Unbeknownst to Hanna, however, Max has a secret--a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Drawn by a mysterious countess into the Berlin household of an aristocratic couple, Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, is introduced to the highly rarified world of affluence and art collecting on the eve of World War II.
Author
Series
Bernie Gunther novel volume 10
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the Propaganda Minister's command. This time, the favor is personal. And this time, nothing is what it seems. Set down...
19) Out of time
Author
Series
Throwback volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Corey Fletcher, a time traveler who has transpeciated into a wolf, makes another attempt to fix his family tree without rupturing history, aided by Leila and Bee, another time traveler.
Author
Language
English
Description
Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown...
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