 Lexile: 720
 By: Carol Matas
 Fourteen-year-old Daniel is
Jewish. He can barely remember
leading a normal life before the
Nazis came to power in 1933.
Memories of happiness and safety
are fading as Daniel and his family
are forced from their comfortable
home in Frankfurt to go first to the
Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to
the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz
and Buchenwald. Daniel now asks
himself the simplest of questions
— What has happened to me?
Who am I? Where am I going? —
and cannot begin to find answers.
0
 Lexile: 770
 By: Michael
Morpurgo
 Twelve-year-old Jo
helps a Jewish man
and Jewish children
escape to Spain
from France when
the village of
Lescun is invaded
by German soldiers.
0
 Lexile: 570
 By: Uri Orlev
 Srulik is only eight
years old when he finds
himself all alone in the
Warsaw ghetto. He
escapes into the
countryside where he
spends the ensuing
years hiding in the
forest, dependent on
the sympathies and
generosity of the poor
farmers in the
surrounding area..
0
 Lexile: 400
 By: Johanna Reiss
 A Dutch Jewish girl
describes the twoand-one-half years
she spent in hiding
in the upstairs
bedroom of a
farmer's house
during World War II.
0
 Lexile: 760
 By: Susan Bartoletti
 Just as the Nazis are rising
to power, Helmut Hubener, a
German schoolboy, is caught
up in all the handsome storm
trooper uniforms, the shiny
jackboots and armbands, the
rousing patriotism - all serve
to draw him into this bright
new world full of promise and
hope. Now Helmuth sits in a
German prison, awaiting his
precarious fate.
7
 Lexile: 1080
 By: John Boyne
 Berlin, 1942: When Bruno
returns home from school
one day, he discovers that
his belongings are being
packed in crates. His father
has received a promotion
and the family must move
from their home to a new
house far, far away, where
there is no one to play with
and nothing to do. A tall
fence running alongside
stretches as far as the eye
can see and cuts him off
from the strange people he
can see in the distance.
4
 Lexile: 730 high content
 By: Markus Zusak
 The story of Liesel Meminger, a
foster girl living outside of Munich.
Liesel scratches out a meager
existence for herself by stealing
when she encounters something
she can't resist, books. With the
help of her accordion–playing
foster father, she learns to read
and shares her stolen books with
her neighbors during bombing
raids as well as with the Jewish
man hidden in her basement
before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story
about the ability of books to feed
the soul.
3
 Lexile: 940
 By: Allan Zullo
 This collection relates
the true stories of
Holocaust survivors
who were children
during the war. Their
heartbreaking tales of
courage and endurance
in the face of
unimaginable loss are a
testimony to their faith
and strength of spirit.
3
 Lexile: 770
 By: Mary Casanova
 Marit is a ten-yearold Norwegian girl
living under Nazi
rule in 1942.
Despite her
grandfather's
warnings, she
secretly helps the
Resistance free
Norway from
German
occupation.
6
 Lexile: 490  high content
 By: Ruta Sepetys
 Lina is just like any other fifteenyear-old Lithuanian girl in 1941.
She paints, she draws, she gets
crushes on boys. Until one night
when Soviet officers barge into her
home, tearing her family from the
comfortable life they've known.
Separated from her father, forced
onto a crowded and dirty train car,
Lina, her mother, and her young
brother slowly make their way
north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to
a work camp in the coldest
reaches of Siberia. Here they are
forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig
for beets and fight for their lives
under the cruelest of conditions.
3
 Lexile: 510  high content
 By: Jerry Spinelli
 He's a boy who lives in the streets
of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals
food for himself and the other
orphans. He's a boy who believes
in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi
some day, with tall shiny jackboots
and a gleaming Eagle hat of his
own. Until the day that suddenly
makes him change his mind. And
when the trains come to empty the
Jews from the ghetto of the
damned, he's a boy who realizes
it's safest of all to be nobody.
7
 Lexile: 600
 By: Jackie French
 When Anna starts her
story about Heidi, tenyear-old Mark thinks
that it is just going to be
another one of Anna's
tales. As the story
unfolds though, Mark is
gripped by the thought
of what it must be like
to be the young girl
whose father is the
infamous Hitler.
1
 Lexile: 1090
 By: Allan Zullo
 When the Nazis invaded
their homes and killed
their friends and families,
these real-life teens went
on the run and joined up
with resisters known as
partisans. These brave
men and women used
guerilla warfare and
sabotage, from blowing
up supply trains to
attacking convoys, to
thwart the Nazis.
2
 Lexile: 670
 By: Lois Lowry
 Ten-year-old Annemarie
and her best friend Ellen
often think of life before
the war. It's now 1943,
and their life is filled with
school, food shortages,
and the Nazi soldiers
marching through
town. When the Jews are
"relocated," Ellen moves
in with Annemarie's family
and pretends to be one of
them, yet her life is still in
danger.
1
 Lexile: 960
 By: Ruth Gruener
 Pretty, carefree Aurelia Gamser
had an normal life growing up in
1930s Poland - until violent acts
and the deportation of Jewish
families to concentration camps
changed everything in her world.
Hiding out, her very life at risk
every day, Ruth struggled to
remain strong and sane. And
though she was destined to live,
her struggle continued after the
war, when she began a new life in
America, as a teenager who had
been through horrors.
8

Lexile: 880  high content

By: Robert Sharenow

Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought
of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at his
school in Nazi-era Berlin, it doesn't matter that
Karl has never set foot in a synagogue or that
his family doesn't practice religion. Karl longs to
prove his worth to everyone around him. So
when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and
German national hero, makes a deal with Karl's
father to give Karl boxing lessons, Karl sees it
as the perfect chance to reinvent himself. A
skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an
interest in boxing, but as Max becomes the
mentor Karl never had, Karl soon finds both his
boxing skills and his art flourishing. But when
Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl
must take on a new role: protector of his family.
Karl longs to ask his new mentor for help, but
with Max's fame growing, he is forced to
associate with Hitler and other Nazi elites,
leaving Karl to wonder where his hero's
sympathies truly lie.
3
 Lexile: 1080
 By: Lila Perl and Marion
Blumenthal Lazan
 Following Hitler's rise to
power, the Blumenthal
family was trapped in
Nazi Germany and, for
over six years, was forced
to live in refugee, transit,
and prison camps. Their
true story is one of horror
and hardship, but also
one of courage, hope, and
the will to survive.
Includes photos and
bibliography.
5
 Lexile: 820
 By: Joan M. Wolf
 The Nazis take Milada away
from her family and send her
to a Lebensborn center in
Poland. There, she is told
she fits the Aryan ideal: her
blond hair and blue eyes are
the right color; her head and
nose, the right size. She is
given a new name, Eva, and
trained to become the
perfect German citizen, to be
the hope of Germany's future
— and to forget she was
ever a Czech girl named
Milada.
1
 Lexile: 610
 By: Tatiana de Rosnay
 Sarah, a ten-year-old girl,
is taken with her parents
by the French police as
they go door to door
arresting Jewish families
in the middle of the night.
Desperate to protect her
younger brother, Sarah
locks him in a bedroom
cupboard—their secret
hiding place—and
promises to come back
for him as soon as they
are released.
2
 The Nazi Hunters
 Years after the Holocaust, brave people sought
justice by tracking down German war criminals
who had escaped into hiding.
 The Boy On The Wooden Box
 When Oskar Schindler added young Leon’s name
to the list of employees, it literally saved the boy’s
life.
 Prisoner B-3087
 One boy. Ten concentration camps. An astonishing
TRUE story of survival and the indomitable human
spirit.