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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
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany. Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had...
6) Max
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Born in Nazi Germany in 1936, Max is raised as the perfect Aryan but questions his teachings upon learning that his friend Lukas, a Polish boy snatched from his home to be "Germanized," is secretly Jewish.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the middle grade series Heroes Quartet brings to light the little-known story of Marcel Marceau's heroic work for the French Resistance during WWII. Desperate to save her children from the Nazis, Henry and Helen's mother takes them to France to hide them in a convent disguised as orphans. During their stay at the convent, they experience visits from a local mime as the children's one source of joy, especially for Henry, whose traumatic...
13) Friedrich
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.
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