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Holocaust Books for Middle Grade Readers Poetry 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939 Barbara Krasner Children's A Boy Is Not a Bird Edeet Ravel, Pam Comeau (illus.) Nonfiction Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis Susan Hood, Greg Dawson Children's Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place Barbara Lowell, Valentina Toro (illus.) Children's Boy From Buchenwald Robbie Waisman, Susan McClelland Children's Broken Strings Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer Fiction Call Across the Sea Kathy Kacer Children's Catherine's War Julia Billet, Claire Fauvel (illustrator), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator) Nonfiction Chance: Escape from the Holocaust Uri Shulevitz Children's Don’t Tell the Nazis Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Children's Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.) Children's I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944: The Graphic Novel Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illustrator) Fiction Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II Lia Levi; Jess Mason, illus.; Sylvia Notini, trans. Fiction Lisa of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Sarah J. Robbins (Adapter),Olga and Aleksey Ivanov (Illustrator) Children's Long Summer Nights Aharon Appelfeld; Vali Mintzi, illus.; Jeffrey Green, trans. Fiction Louder Than Words Kathy Kacer Children's Masters of Silence Kathy Kacer Children's Maurice and His Dictionary Cary Fagan, Enzo Lord Mariano (illus.) Children's Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary Meeg Pincus, Jordi Solano Children's My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List Rina Finder, with Joshua M. Greene Children's Room for One More: A Modern-Day Fairy Tale Sheryl Prenzlau; Adi Katz, illus. Children's Saving Hanno: The Story of a Refugee Dog Miriam Halahmy Fiction Searching for Lottie Susan Ross Nonfiction Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene Children's Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children Kath Shackleton (ed.), Zane Whittingham (illus.) Children's The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero Amalia Hoffman; Chiara Fedele, illus. Children's The Brave Princess and Me Kathy Kacer Children's The City of Light Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.) Fiction The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II Michael P. Spradlin Nonfiction The Light of Days Young Readers' Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion Children's The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein Children's Village of Scoundrels Margi Preus Children's We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport Deborah Hopkinson Nonfiction We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance Deborah Hopkinson Fiction When the World Was Ours Liz Kessler Children's White Bird: A Wonder Story R. J. Palacio Children's Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust Carol Ann Lee Nonfiction Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss with Evelyn Julia Kent Children's Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family Barry Denenberg Children's Holocaust Survivors John Allen Children's The Horror of the Holocaust (Deadly History) Claire Throp Children's Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust Jeanette Friedman and David Gold Nonfiction Chance: Escape from the Holocaust Uri Shulevitz Children's Holocaust Camps and Killing Centers Craig E. Blohm Children's Holocaust Rescue and Liberation Craig E. Blohm Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy Children's Heroes of the Holocaust Rebecca Love Fishkin Children's Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz Carol Matas Children's Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust Allan Zullo; Mara Bovson Children's The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus. Children's Drawing the Holocaust Michael Kraus; Paul Wilson, trans. Children's Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust Rutka Laskier Children's Escape In Time: Miri’s Riveting Tale of Her Family’s Survival During World War II Ronit Lowenstein-Malz; Laurie McGaw, illus.; Leora Frankel, trans. Children's What World is Left? Monique Polak Children's Tutti's Promise K. Heidi Fishman Children's The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron Children's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers Jeremy Dronfield Children's A Boy in War Jan de Groot Children's A Friend Called Anne Jacqueline Van Maarsen; Carol Ann Lee Children's A Time to Be Brave Joan Betty Stuchner; Cynthia Nugent, illus. Children's Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story Ann Kramer Children's Anne Frank: Young Diarist Ruth Ashby Children's Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Doreen Rappaport Children's Bjorn's Gift Sandy Brehl Children's Black Radishes Susan Lynn Meyer Children's Emil and Karl Yankev Glatshteyn; Jeffrey Shandler, trans. Children's Escape From Berlin Irene N. Watts Children's Escaping Into the Night D. Dina Friedman Nonfiction Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport Emma Carlson Berne Children's Fania's Heart Anne Renaud; Richard Rudnicki, illus. Children's Greenhorn Anna Olswanger; Miriam Nerlove, illus. Children's Hana’s Suitcase: Anniversary Album Karen Levine; Archbishop Emeritus Demsond Tutu, fwd. Children's Hitler's Canary Sandi Toksvig Children's Honey Cake Joan Betty Stuchner; Cynthia Nugent, illus. Children's Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell Children's Kanada Eva Wiseman Children's Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees Fern Schumer Chapman Children's Now Morris Gleitzman Children's Number the Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition Lois Lowry Children's Numbers David A. Poulsen Children's Odette’s Secrets Maryann Macdonald Children's Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear Tomi Ungerer Children's Prisoner B-3087 Alan Gratz Children's Seeking Refuge Irene N. Watts; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus. Children's Someone Named Eva Joan M. Wolf Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy Children's Spaghetti Rain Joan Trotter Srager Fiction Stones on a Grave Kathy Kacer Nonfiction Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past Fern Schumer Chapman Children's Survivors Club Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat Children's T4: A Novel in Verse Ann Clare Lezotte Children's The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler's List Leon Leyson Children's The Dollmaker of Krakow R. M. Romero Children's The End of the Line Sharon E. McKay Children's The Entertainer and the Dybbuk Sid Fleischman Children's The Lily Pond Annika Thor; Linda Schenck, trans. Children's The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett; Andrea Offerman, illus. Children's The Mozart Question Michael Morpurgo; Michael Foreman, illus. Children's The Righteous Smuggler Debbie Spring Children's The Tattered Prayer Book Ellen Bari; Avi Katz, illus. Children's Tuky: The Story of a Hidden Child Shterni Rosenfeld, Jacky Yahri, illus. Nonfiction Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living Anna Redsand Fiction What the Night Sings Vesper Stamper Children's Whispers from the Camps Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay Children's Whispers from the Ghettos Kathy Kacer and Sharon MacKay Fiction Wordwings (Essential Prose) Sydelle Pearl Children's Would You Salute? One Child's Story of the Holocaust D. Kelley Steele; Becky Hyatt Rickenbaker, illus. Children's The Legacy of the Holocaust Jason Skog Children's Interrupted Lives: Nine Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust Amanda Friedeman, Kelley Szany Children's One Day: A True Story of Survival in the Holocaust Michael Rosen, Benjamin Phillips Children's Anne Frank: Hope in the Shadows of the Holocaust Spring Hermann Children's Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust Ruth Thomson Children's The Last Train: A Holocaust Story Rona Arato Children's Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust Don Brown Children's Architects of the Holocaust Darlene R. Stille Children's Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust Michelle Bisson; El primo Ramón, illus. Children's The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story Peter Lane Taylor; Christos Nicola Children's Escape In Time: Miri’s Riveting Tale of Her Family’s Survival During World War II Ronit Lowenstein-Malz; Laurie McGaw, illus.; Leora Frankel, trans. Children's Another Me Eva Wiseman Children's Resistance: Book 1 Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis, illus. Children's Saving the Persecuted Brian and Brenda Williams Children's Liesl’s Ocean Rescue Barbara Krasner; Avi Katz, illus. Children's Someday We Will Fly Rachel DeWoskin
Children's Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place Barbara Lowell, Valentina Toro (illus.)
Children's Catherine's War Julia Billet, Claire Fauvel (illustrator), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)
Children's Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)
Children's I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944: The Graphic Novel Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illustrator)
Fiction Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II Lia Levi; Jess Mason, illus.; Sylvia Notini, trans.
Fiction Lisa of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Sarah J. Robbins (Adapter),Olga and Aleksey Ivanov (Illustrator)
Children's Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary Meeg Pincus, Jordi Solano
Children's Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children Kath Shackleton (ed.), Zane Whittingham (illus.)
Children's The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero Amalia Hoffman; Chiara Fedele, illus.
Nonfiction The Light of Days Young Readers' Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion
Children's The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein
Nonfiction Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss with Evelyn Julia Kent
Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy
Children's The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus.
Children's Escape In Time: Miri’s Riveting Tale of Her Family’s Survival During World War II Ronit Lowenstein-Malz; Laurie McGaw, illus.; Leora Frankel, trans.
Children's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers Jeremy Dronfield
Children's Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Doreen Rappaport
Children's Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees Fern Schumer Chapman
Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy
Nonfiction Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past Fern Schumer Chapman
Children's The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler's List Leon Leyson
Children's Would You Salute? One Child's Story of the Holocaust D. Kelley Steele; Becky Hyatt Rickenbaker, illus.
Children's Interrupted Lives: Nine Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust Amanda Friedeman, Kelley Szany
Children's Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust Michelle Bisson; El primo Ramón, illus.
Children's The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story Peter Lane Taylor; Christos Nicola
Children's Escape In Time: Miri’s Riveting Tale of Her Family’s Survival During World War II Ronit Lowenstein-Malz; Laurie McGaw, illus.; Leora Frankel, trans.
