Holocaust Books for Middle Grade Readers

Bjorn's Gift

Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Emma Carlson Berne

Fania's Heart

Anne Renaud; Richard Rudnicki, illus.

Seeking Refuge

Irene N. Watts; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus.

Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past

Fern Schumer Chapman

The Dollmaker of Krakow

What the Night Sings

Wordwings (Essential Prose)

A Boy in War

A Friend Called Anne

Jacqueline Van Maarsen; Carol Ann Lee

A Time to Be Brave

Joan Betty Stuchner; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story

Anne Frank: Young Diarist

Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Doreen Rappaport

Black Radishes

Susan Lynn Meyer

Emil and Karl

Yankev Glatshteyn; Jeffrey Shandler, trans.

Escape From Berlin

Escaping Into the Night

D. Dina Friedman

Greenhorn

Anna Olswanger; Miriam Nerlove, illus.

Hana’s Suitcase: Anniversary Album

Karen Levine; Archbishop Emeritus Demsond Tutu, fwd.

Honey Cake

Joan Betty Stuchner; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage

Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell

Kanada

Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees

Fern Schumer Chapman

Now

Morris Gleitzman

Number the Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition

Numbers

David A. Poulsen

Odette’s Secrets

Maryann Macdonald

Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear

Prisoner B-3087

Someone Named Eva

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust

Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy

Spaghetti Rain

Joan Trotter Srager

Stones on a Grave

Survivors Club

Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat

T4: A Novel in Verse

Ann Clare Lezotte

The End of the Line

Sharon E. McKay

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk

The Lily Pond

Annika Thor; Linda Schenck, trans.

The Midnight Zoo

Sonya Hartnett; Andrea Offerman, illus.

The Mozart Question

Michael Morpurgo; Michael Foreman, illus.

The Righteous Smuggler

The Tattered Prayer Book

Ellen Bari; Avi Katz, illus.

Tuky: The Story of a Hidden Child

Shterni Rosenfeld, Jacky Yahri, illus.

Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living

Whispers from the Camps

Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay

Whispers from the Ghettos

Kathy Kacer and Sharon MacKay

Would You Salute? One Child's Story of the Holocaust

D. Kelley Steele; Becky Hyatt Rickenbaker, illus.