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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. New Horizons summer camp promises a new life for Lexi--she swears she can change. She can learn to like boys. But denying her feelings is harder than she thinks"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
5) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. But that all changed when the Nazis came to power. The pink triangle sewn onto prison uniforms became the symbol of the persecution of homosexuals, a persecution that would continue for many years after the war. A mix of historical research, first-person accounts and individual stories brings this time to life for young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
Series
Evil librarian volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After Cynthia Rothschild saves the entire student body from the demon librarian she's looking forward to a demon-free summer at camp with her boyfriend, but maybe Mr. Gabriel will come back to life to seek his terrible revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
10) Wild blue wonder
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Quinn and her sister, Fern, and brother, Reed, summer means working as counselors at their family's summer camp: months of bonfires, bunks, and friendships made and broken. But last summer was different. Last summer they all fell in love with the same boy-Dylan, their best friend since forever, suddenly seen through new eyes. Six months later and everything has changed. The summer camp is empty and covered in snow, and Quinn, Fern and Reed aren't...
12) Night
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enduring classic of Holocaust literature, Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
14) Hunting by stars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of...
16) The lake
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old best friends Esme and Kayla return to Camp Pine Lake as counselors in training, but the dark secret they have been hiding for nine years is back to haunt them.