NIGHT and THE BOYS WHO CHALLENGED HITLER:
FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES
RECOMMENDED READING
TITLE: All the Light We Cannot See
AUTHOR: Anthony Doerr SUMMARY: A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: The Book Thief
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak SUMMARY: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: The Complete Maus
AUTHOR: Art Spiegelman SUMMARY: A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Number the Stars
AUTHOR: Lois Lowry SUMMARY: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Prisoner B-3087
AUTHOR: Alan Gratz SUMMARY: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Between Shades of Gray
AUTHOR: Ruta Sepetys SUMMARY: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: The Librarian of Auschwitz
AUTHOR: Antonio Iturbe SUMMARY: Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Code Name Verity
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Wein SUMMARY: After crash-landing in France in 1943 and being captured by Nazis, a female wireless operator for the British (who goes by Queenie, Eva, Verity, and various other aliases) reveals bits of code in exchange for reprieve from torture...and to postpone her execution. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook from OverDrive or check it out from NC's library |