Arrick, Fran.  Chernowitz!  Y Fic Arrick
A boy who suffers anti-Semitic abuse at the hands of a classmate during his ninth and tenth grade years plots revenge against his tormentor.

Atlan, Liliane.  The Passersby.  Y Fic Atlan
As a teenage Jewish girl struggles with anorexia, her decisions about whether or not to live affect those close to her and are influenced by survivors of the Holocaust.

Benchley, Nathaniel.  Bright Candles.  Y Fic Benchley
The experiences of a sixteen-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II.

Carter, Peter.  The Hunted.  Y Fic Carter
In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent.

Chotjewitz, David.  Daniel, half-human : the Nazis come to power.  Y FIC Chotjewitz
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.

Cormier, Robert.  Tunes for Bears to Dance To.  Y Fic Cormier
Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.

Dillon, Eilis.  Children of Bach.  Y Fic Dillon
A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution during World War II.

Douglas, Kirk.  The Broken Mirror. Y Fic Douglas
After the Nazis destroy his family, twelve-year-old Moishe gives up his Jewish faith, calls himself Danny, and is taken to New York where he tries to make the best of his life in a Catholic orphanage.

Drucker, Malka. Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story.  Y FIC Drucker
In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.

Forman, James.  The Survivor.  Y Fic Forman
An account of a Jewish family in Holland during World War II as one by one it dwindles away during the Nazi holocaust.

Friedman, D. Dina. Escaping into the Night.  Y FIC Friedman
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.

Hartman, Evert.  War Without Friends.  Y Fic Hartman
In a small Dutch town during World War II, fourteen-year-old Arnold, a member of the Hitler Youth, feels increasingly isolated and trapped between his father's fervent support of the Nazi party and his classmates' hostile opposition to all the Nazis stand for.

Isaacs, Anne.  Torn Thread.  Y FIC Isaacs
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

Kositsky, Lynne. The Thought of High Windows.  Y Fic Kositsky
Young and Jewish, Esther is on the run from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II.

Laird, Christa.  Shadow of the Wall.  Y Fic Laird
Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization.

Levitin, Sonia. Room in the Heart.   Y Fic Levitin
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.
 

Matas, Carol.  Greater than Angels.  Y Fic Matas
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.

Mazer, Norma Fox.  Good Night, Maman.  Y FIC Mazer
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.

Morpurgo, Michael.  Waiting for Anya.  Y Fic Morpurgo
Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.

Nolan, Han.  If I Should Die Before I Wake.  Y Fic Nolan
As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.

Orlev, Uri.  The Man from the Other Side.  Y Fic Orlev
Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

Ray, Karen. To Cross a Line.  Y FIC Ray
In 1938, after a minor traffic accident, seventeen-year-old Egon Katz joins an increasing number of German Jews desperately trying to find a way out of the country.

Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich.  Y FIC Richter / Y PB R
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.

Sender, Ruth Minsky.  The Cage. Y PB S
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.

Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed .  Y Fic Spinelli
In Warsaw in 1939, a boy wanders the streets and survives by stealing what food he can. He knows nothing of his background: Is he a Jew? A Gypsy? Was he ever called something other than Stopthief?

Voigt, Cynthia.  David and Jonathan.  Y Fic Voigt
The relationship between two close friends, Henry and Jonathan, changes when Jonathan's cousin David, a victim of the Holocaust, comes to live with David's family.

Vos, Ida.  Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon.  Y Fic Vos
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Vos, Ida.  The Key Is Lost. Y FIC Vos
When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another.

Williams, Laura.  Behind the Bedroom Wall.  Y Fic Williams
Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

Yolen, Jane.  The Devil’s Arithmetic.  Y Fic Yolen
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.

4/28/06