"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remembe...
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This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing...
It's 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers-- and the death of her beloved grandmother-- Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. The best singer in her junior high, she auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is crushed to learn that she's been given the par...
"Sophie loves her granny more than she loves stars or books or her hamster. And when Granny passes away, Sophie misses her more than she can say. The flowers Sophie brings to Granny's grave always fade too soon. When Sophie learns that some people place stones on loved ones' grav...
"In the summer of 1941, Irene Lorch must perform the most perilous balancing act of her life. Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire ... until one day, the audien...
"Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt--a German who risked his life to protect Jews from the Nazis."-- P...
Eleven-year-old Margit and her mother have escaped the Nazi terror in war-torn Czechoslovakia for the safe haven in Canada. She finds the kindness from family and new friends, but realizes there is still intolerance towards Jews in Canada. Some people don't think she belongs here...
It is 1947, and Canada has opened its borders to one thousand Jewish war orphans. When Margit's own Jewish community is asked to open its homes to these children Margit is determined to convince her parents to welcome a child to their family.
In 1945, young Francine and her maman are sent to the Bergen-Belsen Nazi prison camp, where life is gray and hopeless. Determined to lift Francine's spirits, Maman shares a secret: hidden inside her bag are two pieces of chocolate. When Francine decides to give these chocolates t...
Describes how Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl, survived the Holocaust.
"Twelve-year-old Dina, her mother, and two sisters must contend with the invasion of the Nazis of their small Ukrainian town during World War II. With the help of a new housekeeper, Nina, they struggle to stay safe from imminent danger to the Jewish community. Based on a true sto...
"A translation of I Am Not a Number to Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) - Nishnaabemwin, Nbisiing dialect. The book includes both English and Anishinaabemowin. I Am Not a Number is the true story of eight-year-old Irene, who is removed from her First Nations family to live in a resident...
It's 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city's Jews, but even Paul's parents think he should go along with his classmate...
"It is the time of World War II and Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Werner never expected to meet a magician in such a sad and frightening place. Nor did he expect that his life could be changed, not just by his bunk mate Herr Levin's gift of magic, but...
"The second book in the middle grade series Heroes Quartet brings to light the little-known story of Marcel Marceau's heroic work for the French Resistance during WWII. Desperate to save her children from the Nazis, Henry and Helen's mother takes them to France to hide them in a ...