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Books about Books
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Stories with Unique Narrators
Wonder Read Alikes
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Stories with Unique Narrators
Wonder Read Alikes
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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.
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English
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina јZabïеnski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the јZabïеnskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano...
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English
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The incredible true story follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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One winter in Budapest during the Second World War, an Italian closes his ice cream shop for the season, using the storefront to hide his Jewish friends and neighbors, including a boy named Peter. Based on a true story.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.
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