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1001) Sasquatch in the paint
Author
Series
Streetball crew volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Coach Mandrake trying to transform him into a basketball star, but training time is hurting the science club's chances of winning the "Aca-lympics," and being accused of stealing could mean Theo is off both teams.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 541 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Harris offers the first in-depth history of both sides in the 1894 Dreyfus Affair, showing how complex interlocking influences--tensions within the military, the clashing demands of justice and nationalism, and a tangled web of friendships and family connections--shaped both the coalition working to free Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus and the formidable alliances seeking to protect the reputation of the army that had convicted him.
1004) This rebel heart
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father’s legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
1006) Nazi concentration camps
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1945]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nazi concentration camps: The official film record of the Nazi death camps as photographed by Allied forces advancing into Germany. Shows surviving prisoners, victims of medical experiments, gas chambers, and open mass graves.
Nuremberg trials: Russian documentary on the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, includes trial footage and film used by the prosecution to show the Nazis' various crimes against humanity.
1007) Odette's secrets
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
225 p. : photos ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.
1008) La casa de los niños
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Ámsterdam, 1942. En Holanda ya ondea la bandera nazi y miles de judíos aguardan el día de su deportación en lugares como el Teatro Hollandsche Shouwburg. El profesor Johan van Hulst es testigo de las condiciones en las que esperan los niños judíos, atemorizados y sin sustento, y es incapaz de quedarse impasible ante tanto sufrimiento. Para hacer frente a la tragedia, se pondrá en contacto con Henri︠tte Pimentel -la directora de la guardería...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Larry, an aspiring actor, leaves his home and heads for Manhattan. He moves into an apartment in Greenwich Village. Between acting classes, auditions and odd jobs he spends time with his eccentric friends.
1010) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
356 pages: black and white photographs ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her father makes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight against the Nazis. Lidia wants to follow him into war, but she's far too young, and she's needed by her mother and brother. After...
1011) Armstrong & Charlie
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
Author
Series
Debolsillo volume 608/9
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
906 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Hay momentos en la vida en los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando. A finales del siglo XIX, durante la última etapa zarista, los Zucker, perseguidos por ser judíos, tienen que abandonar Rusia huyendo del horror y la sinrazón. A su llegada a la Tierra Prometida, Samuel Zucker adquiere las tierras de los Ziad, una familia árabe encabezada por Ahmed. Entre él y Samuel nace un fuerte vínculo, una sólida amistad...
1013) Artificial: a love story
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
329 pages, 28 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Journal written in Auschwitz by a Holocaust survivor in the weeks following the camp's liberation by the Red Army.
"In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor. He later found out she'd already been transferred to Auschwitz. While at Westerbork,...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2006, 2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Bruno tiene nueve aänos y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un niño judío que vive una extraäna existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant per\centage...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First US edition 2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Grades 2-4. Houses can hold mysteries, as most children know. Around this truth, Harding has built a story about one particular house in Germany that witnessed history. Outside of Berlin, this home with blue shutters, beside a lake, holds a great deal of appeal, and readers will relate to the various children who lived there, played games on its lawn, swam in the lake, and interacted with the natural world. Teckentrup's illustrations are light and...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spectacular story, the making of a dynasty, one of the great untold sagas of a gilded Jewish Bagdadi family-the merchant princes of the orient, that built a vast empire through finance and trade: opium, cotton, oil, shipping, banking, that reached across three continents, and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as 'the Rothschilds...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
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