Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks of her time during World War II.The family's perseverance is a classic story of the American dream, but also illustrates the ...
Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't know what to expect -- or if he'll make it out alive. All he knows that the enemy is everywhere.
Davies fell out of his seat, and Murphy grunted as tank shells fell over and rattled around. Bill just managed to hang on to the control rods in front of him. “What the devil hit us?” Davies asked. “I don't know,” Bill said, ...
That was a very touching story you told back there about loving America and Justin Timberlake.” Jimmy looked at me in the rearview mirror. “What Aaliyah neglected to mention is that she's Jordanian. That's why she can only be an ...
Camouflaged against the rocks was a snow leopard. And it was looking right at her. The big cat was light gray and brown with black spots. Reshmina would never have seen it if the rocks under its feet hadn't shifted as it snuck by.
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his ...
You’re Never Too Young to Fight Censorship! In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Recounts the efforts of Jews who organized others and sabotaged the Nazis during the Holocaust, including Georges Loinger who smuggled children from occupied France into Switzerland and four brothers who led refugees into the forest to ...
And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the ...
In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times.