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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The reader may wish to bear in mind that much of this edition is based on the "b" version of Anne's diary, which she wrote when she was around fifteen years old. Occasionally, Anne went back and commented on a passage she had written earlier. These comments are clearly marked in this edition. Naturally, Anne's spelling and linguistic errors have been corrected. Otherwise, the text has basically been left as she wrote it, since any attempts at editing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
4) Two tribes
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan...
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Germany, 1939. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah, finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see her, along with every other Jew, dead. Then she meets a mysterious man who needs Sarah to pull off a spy mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of Nazi top brass, befriend the girl whose father is a high-ranking scientist, and find the blueprints to a bomb...
7) Resistance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
Author
Series
Hereville volume 1
Publisher
Amulet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
137 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late summer and early fall of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother, and best friend, Miriam, must navigate the increasing pressure placed on the Jewish population in Frankfurt, Germany. Ruth grows more worried by the day. Her father's stationery store is shut down; she and Miriam are belittled on the street; their school is closed. Then one night in November, the family's apartment is broken into. Ruth's father is dragged...
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Hereville volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Hereville, where Mirka, the world's first time-traveling, monster-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, faces her greatest challenge yet: babysitting! Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she's stuck babysitting her disapproving little sister, Layele. When Mirka pushes her sister into a stream, they both get in too deep with an angry magic fish. No matter how hard Mirka fights this fish-out-of-water, it gets stronger and stronger-and...
13) Hereville
Author
Series
Hereville volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spunky ten-year-old Mirka Herschberg hones her skills in her Orthodox Jewish community before accepting the challenges presented in these books.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
15) Yentl
Publisher
20th century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Director's extended edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In turn of the century Eastern Europe women are denied higher education. Yentl, with a passion to learn, disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shira dreams of a life onstage, and twin sister Esther wants to devote her life to God, so they decide to switch places to pursue their dreams--but the two discover they need to work together to accomplish their goals and bring their families and community together.
Author
Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what'shappened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first, she's bitter about being left behind by her mother, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize...
Author
Series
Hereville volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
123 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mirka is back, and this time she takes on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. Our heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-part challenge ... or be banished from Hereville!
20) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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