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(0)Kathy Kacer
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of a young boy on the inside of Auschwitz, whose life is changed by the actions of a prisoner who performs magic for the guards..."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the ship St. Louis, which left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba. Denied port in Cuba, the US, and finally Canada, the St. Louis was forced to return Europe, where many passengers later died in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of two children, Sol and Lisa, both of whom survived the war and shared their experiences, we see as their journey begins with excitement and hope, only to end in frustration...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number...
Author
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
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 part of the old Jewish mother in the musical rather than the coveted part of the sister. But there is an upside: her "husband" is none other than Ben Morgan, the cutest and most...
