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Holocaust Books for Young Adults Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.) Nonfiction A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz Dita Kraus Children's A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust Albert Marrin Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather Fiction Bluebird Sharon Cameron Children's Defying the Nazis: The Life of German Officer Wilm Hosenfeld, Young Readers Edition Hermann Vinke Fiction It's My Life Stacie Ramey Fiction Names in a Jar Jennifer Gold Nonfiction Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America Ruth Gruener Fiction Paris Secrets (A Jake McGreevy Novel) Sean Vogel Children's Someday We Will Fly Rachel DeWoskin Children's The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron Fiction They Went Left Monica Hesse Fiction Under the Iron Bridge Kathy Kacer Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans. Children's A Boy in War Jan de Groot Children's A Friend Called Anne Jacqueline Van Maarsen; Carol Ann Lee Fiction Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit Children's Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust Carol Ann Lee Nonfiction Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus. Children's Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón Nonfiction Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank; Susan Massotty, trans. Children's Annexed Sharon Dogar Children's Another Me Eva Wiseman Children's Architects of the Holocaust Darlene R. Stille Children's Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Doreen Rappaport Children's Black Radishes Susan Lynn Meyer Fiction Camp Elaine Wolf Children's Children of the Holocaust Jenny MacKay Children's Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein Children's Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke Anne Blankman Children's Emil and Karl Yankev Glatshteyn; Jeffrey Shandler, trans. Children's Escaping Into the Night D. Dina Friedman Children's Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem Hana Greenfield Children's Greenhorn Anna Olswanger; Miriam Nerlove, illus. Children's Heroes of the Holocaust Rebecca Love Fishkin Children's Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens Alan Zullo; Mara Bovsun Children's Hidden Letters Deborah Slier and Ian Shine, ed.; Marion van Binsbergen-Pritchard, trans. Children's Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis Children's Home Number One: A Graphic Novel Marion Baraitser; Anna Evans Children's I Promise You Yael Mermelstein Children's Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell Children's Kanada Eva Wiseman Fiction Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust Leanne Lieberman Children's Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees Fern Schumer Chapman Children's Making Bombs For Hitler Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Nonfiction Man’s Search For Meaning: Young Adult Edition Viktor E. Frankl Fiction Mapping the Bones Jane Yolen Children's Max Sarah Cohen-Scali; Penny Hueston, trans. Children's Memories of Survival Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt Fiction My Real Name is Hanna Tara Lynn Masih Children's Nazi War Criminals Don Nardo Children's Now Morris Gleitzman Children's Numbers David A. Poulsen Children's Odette’s Secrets Maryann Macdonald Children's Once Morris Gleitzman Children's Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz Carol Matas Children's Playing for the Commandant Suzy Zail Children's Prisoner B-3087 Alan Gratz Fiction Resistance Jennifer A. Nielsen Children's Soldier Doll Jennifer Gold Fiction Stones on a Grave Kathy Kacer Children's Stolen Secrets L.B. Schulman Children's T4: A Novel in Verse Ann Clare Lezotte Children's The Berlin Boxing Club Robert Sharenow Fiction The Boy Behind the Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis David Tabatsky Children's The Boy at the Top of the Mountain John Boyne Children's The Boy Who Dared Susan Campbell Bartoletti Children's The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club Phillip Hoose Nonfiction The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale Art Spiegelman Children's The Diary of Laura's Twin Kathy Kacer Fiction The Extra A.B. Yehoshua; Stuart Schoffman, trans. Children's The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler John Hendrix Children's The Girl in the Blue Coat Monica Hess Fiction The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers) Katherine Locke Children's The Holocaust and Life Under Nazi Occupation Peter Darman, ed. Fiction The Librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe; Lilit Thwaites, trans. Fiction The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day Elie Wiesel Children's The Other Half of Life Kim Ablon Whitney Children's The Red Ribbon Lucy Adlington Children's The War within These Walls Aline Sax; Caryl Strzelecki, illus.; Laura Watkinson, trans. Children's The Whirlwind Carol Matas Children's The Winter Horses Phillip Kerr Children's The Yellow Star Shines Like a Candle in the Dark Aaron Seth; Ilana Barran, illus. Fiction Thin Ice Frieda Korobkin Nonfiction To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz Nonfiction Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living Anna Redsand Children's We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman Fiction Wolf by Wolf Ryan Graudin
Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather
Children's Defying the Nazis: The Life of German Officer Wilm Hosenfeld, Young Readers Edition Hermann Vinke
Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Nonfiction Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus.
Children's Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
Children's Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Doreen Rappaport
Children's Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees Fern Schumer Chapman
Nonfiction To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz
Children's We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman
