Set in 1943 Denmark, a girl and her family help a Jewish family escape to Sweden when German soldiers start rounding up Jews to be sent to concentration camps. Based on true events.
*1990 Newbery Award Winner
In 1939 Warsaw, an orphaned gypsy boy with no name or past is adopted first by a gang of older orphan boys and then a Jewish family. However German soldiers soon force all the Jewish residents into walled ghettos to starve before being sent on trains to the unknown. The orphaned boy is one of few who can slip through the cracks in the wall to bring food back to the starving ghetto residents.
*2004 ALA Best Book for Young Adults
The true story of 13-year-old Hana Brady who was sent to Auschwitz and immediately put to death. Years later, a Japanese teacher, Fumiko Ishioka, found Hana's suitcase and set about to solve the mystery of who the young Jewish Czechoslovakian girl was.
No war. No poverty. No homelessness. No crime. Utopia? However when people give up individual rights and freedom for the good of the community, both the individual and the community suffer.
*1994 Newbery Award Winner
The true story of a 7-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family who were forced to leave their California home to live in the Japanese internment camp of Manzanar during World War II.
Number the Stars and The Giver were two of my favorite books as a child! :)
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