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Fiction

Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin

Anna is still here by Ida Voss

Ashes by Katherine Lasky

After the war by Carol Matas

Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett

Because of Romek- David Faber (Romek’s brother)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a Fable by John Boyne

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Bartoletti

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

The Cage-Ruth Minsky Sender

Children of the Blitz by Robert Westall

Daniel Half Human: A Novel by David Chotjewitz, Translated by Doris Orgel

The Devil's Arithmetic by Yolen

The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel

Don't tell the Nazis by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fireflies in the Dark: the Story of Friedl Dicker_Brandeis and the Children of Terezin- Susan Goldman Rubin

Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz- Isabella Leitner

The Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz

Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer

Greater than Angels by Carol Matas

I Am David by Anne Holm

I Have Lived a Thousand Years-Livia Bitton-Jackson

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree-Laura Hillman

The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev

The Lost Childhood-Yehuda Nir

Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen

Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the darkness by Gary Schmidt

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Night, Dawn and The Accident by Ellie Weisel

No Pretty Pictures-Anita Lobel

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Resistance by Jennifer Nielsen

The Secret Room by Cynthia Mercati

Shadow life: a portrait of Anne Frank and her Family by Barry Denenberg

Snow Treasure by Maria McSwigan

Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf

Stolen Girl by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Tunes for bears to dance to by Robert Cormier

Non-Fiction

Alias Anna:  A True Story of Outwitting the Nazisby Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (92 DAW)

Along the Tracks by Tamar Bergman, Translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsky (92 BER)

Anne Frank Beyond The Diary by Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven for the Anne Frank House

All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler:  Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

Destined to Live:  A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust by Ruth Gruener

The Grand Escape:  The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century by Neal Bascomb

The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History:  The Story of the Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine

The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage, by Mark Klempner

The Hiding Place by Ten Boom, Corrie

Hitler's Last Days by Bill O' Reilly

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendolsohn

The Hitler Youth by Susan Bartoletti

Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novels)

The Plot to Kill Hitler:  Dietrich Bonhoeffer:  Pator, Spy, Unlikely Hero by Patricia McCormick

Sabotage:  The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust, by Jacob Boas

Upon the Head of the Goat: a childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

Your Name is Renee:  Ruth Kapp Hartz's story as a hidden child in Nazy-Occupied France by Stacy Cretzmeyer

World War II from YALSABK

POSTCARDS FROM NO MAN'S LAND by Aidan Chambers

THE CHILDREN'S WAR by Monique Charlesworth

MARIKA by Andrea Chen

Grenade by Alan Gratz

ANNE FRANK AND ME Jeff Gottesfeld

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

LAND GIRLS by Angela Huth

SHINING THROUGH by Susan Issacs

MEMORIES OF SURVIVAL by Esther Nisenthal Krinitz

SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ by Primo Levi

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

TALES FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James Michener

ZAZOO by Richard Mosher

THE TRUE STORY OF HANSEL AND GRETEL by Louise Murphy

WAR IN VAL D'ORCIA by Iris Origo

TAMAR by Mal Peet

GONE TO SOLDIERS, Marge Piercy

ANYA by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

WATERLAND by Graham Swift

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

THE WOODEN HORSE by Eric Williams

THE CAINE MUTINY by Herman Wouk

WINDS OF WAR by Herman Wouk

WAR AND REMEMBRANCE by Herman Wouk

The Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

More from YALSABK:

Clark, Kathy. Guardian Angel House. Second Story, 2009.

DeSaix, Deborah Durland and Karen Gray Ruelle. Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon. Holiday House, 2007.

Engle, Margarita. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba. Henry Holt, 2009.

Glatshteyn, Yankev. Emil and Karl. Roaring Brook, 2006.

Grief, Jean-Jacques. The Fighter. Bloomsbury, 2006.

Gross, Elly Berkovits. Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust. Scholastic, 2009.

LeZotte, Ann Clare. T4. Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

McClafferty, Carla Killough. In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry. FSG, 2008.

Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. Marshall Cavendish, 2006.

Toksvig, Sandi. Hitler's Canary. Roaring Brook, 2007.

Whitney, Kim Albon. The Other Half of Life. Knopf, 2009.

Six Million Paper Clips by Peter W. Schroeder

The Mozart Question by Michael Morpugo

The Journey That Saved Curious George by Louise Borden

A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust by Alison Leslie Gold

Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar

The Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal's Search for the Truth by Susan Goldman Rubin

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary by Ruud van der Rol’s and Rian Verhoeven

Hiding Edith by Katrhy Kacer

Anne Frank and Me by Bennett

Survivor's: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Zullo

Ruka's Notebook by Laskier

Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

Erika's Story

The Lost Childhood by Yehuda

Auf Wiedersehen by Christa Holder Ocker