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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
8) Choke point
Author
Publisher
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Hired to investigate allegations of a sweat-shop operation in Amsterdam that is enslaving young girls, Knox and tech information expert Grace Chu embark on a rescue mission that is challenged by a crime organization that has seduced local neighborhoods with showy goodwill practices.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend....
Author
Language
English
Description
London police detective Alisha Barba, recovering from an injury she received on the job, is drawn into a dangerous international baby-selling ring when she sets out to discover why her estranged friend Cate, who summoned Ali to their high school reunion with an urgent message shortly before being struck and killed by a car, was only pretending to be pregnant.
13) The happiest kids in the world: how Dutch parents help their kids (and themselves) by doing less
Author
Language
English
Description
Would parents rather their children be successful or happy? Kids in the US face lots of pressure to excel -- often at the expense of happiness. But does it have to be this way? Not in the Netherlands! Expats Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison -- both married to Dutchmen and bringing up their kids in the Netherlands --examine the unique environment that enables the Dutch to turn out such well-adjusted, independent children.
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Piet Barol, a handsome young man in his mid-twenties, secures a position as a tutor in the household of one of the most prominent bourgeois families in Amsterdam and enters into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous temptations, learning to hide truths of this vastly rich, secretive family.
18) Infidel
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ayaan Hirsi Ali recounts her life story, discussing her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.
Author
Publisher
Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others lived in hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942 until their capture in August 1944.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But...
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