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c2000., Crabtree Call No: 973 .04924 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We came to North AmericaSummary Note: Descriptive text and eyewitness accounts describe how Jews from around the world fled persecution in their homelands and came to North America.
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-- Twenty-eight days2020., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: HISTORICAL F SAF Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.
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-- Fifty children2015., Harper Perennial Call No: HI-INT 940.53 PRE Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Tells of Gil and Eleanor Kraus' dramatic rescue of fifty children from Vienna during World War II. Draws on Eleanor Kraus' memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with surviving children. Also includes black-and-white photographs, archival materials, and memorabilia.
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2009., Juvenile, Farrar, Straus Giroux Call No: 741.5 HEU Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While going through the contents in her grandmother Helena's attic, Jeroen is told a surprising story set in a time when Helena lived under German occupation in Europe and about her suspicions that her father, a police man, had something to do with her best friend being taken away.
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1969, Atheneum Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mark Setzer tells about his troubles on the little league team managed by his mother and coached by his brother.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Zelly Fried's parents will not allow her to have a slumber party until she teaches her mischievous puppy, Ace, to behave, but with Grandpa Ace around, nothing is ever simple.
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c2006., Primary, Putnam's Call No: Picture Book MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Seven Stories Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First English-langu Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the last winter of World War II, 9-year-old Jewish boys Adam and Thomas are left in the woods by their mothers who believe they have a better chance of surviving in the wilderness than in the Ghetto. The boys build a small shelter and find help from Mina, a young girl who is hiding with a peasant family and who risks her life to bring them food every few days. The boys can hear the war raging around them and try to help fugitives they find fleeing for their lives through the forest as they work together to survive the harsh winter in the woods.
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[2006]., Jewish Lights Pub. Call No: GN SHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jewish and American folklore are combined in this witty and original collection of comic Jewish folk tales creatively retold and set on the western frontier of the 1870s. Part wild west sheriff, part old world rabbi. After finishing school in New York, Rabbi Harvey traveled west in search of adventure and, hopefully, work as a rabbi. Like any good collection of Jewish folktales, these stories contain layers of humor and timeless wisdom that will entertain both adults and young readers.
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By Garza, Hedda1995., Juvenile, Franklin Watts Call No: 973 GAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American experienceSummary Note: A history of the African Americans and Jewish Americans and how they have struggled to survive together in the United States.
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2012., PUFFIN BOOKS Call No: HISTORICAL F GLE Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the Nazis took my parents, I was scared. After they killed my best friend, I was angry. After they ruined my thirteenth birthday, I was determined to get to the forest to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all.
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c2001., Greenwillow Books Call No: 940.53 18 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the stories of eight young survivors of the Holocaust, focusing on their experiences after the war, and includes excerpts from interviews, and personal and archival photographs.
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c1996., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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1995., Hill and Wang Call No: B Edition: New, expanded ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author tells of the three years she endured as a slave laborer of the Nazis during World War II.
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1995., Hill and Wang a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 921 KLEIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 18-year-old Gerda was separated from her family in 1941, after the Nazis invaded Poland. She spent three long years in a slave camp - never losing hope, and never breaking the promises she made to her father. This is a story of "the power of human love in the midst of imeasurable horror.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: HOLIDAY E JEN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.
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c1991., Tambourine Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Moses and his little brother Benjamin find a way to celebrate Hanukkah during their dangerous emigration to Palestine.
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-- All 3 stooges2018., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F PER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While preparing for their bar mitzvahs, comedy-obsessed Noah and Dash find their friendship threatened by a personal tragedy.
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2017., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical Fiction Fic Kau Edition: 1st American ed., January 2017. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann R²d, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
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1991, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 940.53 159 Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Union, is separated from his family, and undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.