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Adventures of Rooney Cruz 6 I survived 9 Junior high drama Peg + Cat Ringleaders 1 VOX booksShepard, Jim
Summary: "Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred. A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEDobson, Melanie
Summary: "1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese's dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission. When the enemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DOBCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORLowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWHesse, Monica
Summary: In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESHoffman, Alice
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Shuster 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2019Orringer, Julie
Summary: In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORRSteel, Danielle
Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Dweck, Nicole.
Summary: "Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga in the tradition of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Nomi Eve's The Family Orchard. In 1544, as Inquisition fires rage in Portugal, young José Mendez...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DWEKraus, Otto B.
Summary: Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAHesse, Monica.
Summary: "In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HESRosner, Jennifer
Summary: "From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSWeidemann, Erin
Summary: "The adventures continue in this fun new collection from Bible Belles. With the help of the angel Mari, Rooney has learned she has five real superpowers: prayer, patience, bravery, loyalty, and leadership. Rooney has also learned that she has a powerful voice. And when her role in the new school play takes a few unexpected turns she finds out the truth about her voice, and the important message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth Becomes Her 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WEIWilson, Karma.
Summary: Bear's animal friends come to his rescue when he becomes lost and frightened in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WilMilbourne, Anna
Summary: This little girl follows her daddy everywhere - upstairs, downstairs, and even to the bathroom! She doesn't like being left alone - the world is so big and she's so small! Can she and her daddy find a solution?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILDean, James
Summary: Presents an adaptation of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider," in which Pete and his friends know just how to help the spider succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DEAInserro, Julia
Summary: "Bad days are the worst! Like when your mom tells you that you can't wear your mermaid costume to the dentist and the ballet teacher says you can't pirouette in rain boots and the cat steals your pencil - those days are the WORST worst!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo Inserro 2019Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: "When Jake's mom upcycles every last thing in the apartment, Jake begins to worry that the only thing left to change is... him!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing Ltd. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMIMorris, Heather
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPMorris, Heather
Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners and used the job's freedom of movement to trade items taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMason, Jane B.
Summary: Most of the sixth graders at Memorial Middle School are all a-flutter about the beginning-of-the-school-year, boy-girl party, but not Lucia, who is put off by all the talk about what to wear, and who to date--however, when she gets to know Adesh (the boy who sits on her favorite bench in the park), she starts thinking that there might be something to this dating thing after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019