Mirjam Pressler, . . Puffin, $7.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-14-131226-2
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "While the tragically short life of Anne Frank has elsewhere been carefully documented and inventively researched, this astonishing biography succeeds in delivering freshand provocative insights." Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
Covering the period from September 1943 to March 1944, the novel opens in a Polish village and follows the seven-year-old Jewish heroine as she flees, and her mother and sister separate from her. Continue reading »
Like the German film The Nasty Girl
, this tough-minded novel, also from Germany, centers on a contemporary young heroine’s attempt to scrape away the Continue reading »
Despite the disturbing-sounding setting--a residence for girls in Germany shortly after the end of WWII--this German novel is full of warmth and hope. Halinka, 12, prefers not to think about her Continue reading »
While the tragically short life of Anne Frank has elsewhere been carefully documented and inventively researched, this astonishing biography succeeds in delivering fresh and provocative insights. Continue reading »
""Despite the disturbing-sounding setting--a residence for girls in Germany shortly after the end of WWII--this German novel is full of warmth and hope,"" wrote PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. Continue reading »
Particularly grim, even for a Holocaust memoir, this work owes much of its force to the author's unusually detailed powers of memory. Only eight when Germany occupied her home city of Vilnius in Continue reading »
Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family
Mirjam Pressler
With her famous diary of life in the "secret annex," Anne Frank provided an achingly personal account of the terrors of the Holocaust and an intimate look at much of her family, particularly her Continue reading »
After he qualifies for the Gamerville Video Game Tournament, tween Max finds himself attending Camp Reset, a Black-owned sleepaway program for digital detoxing. Undeterred by Continue reading »
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Whalesong: The True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas
Zachariah Ohora
In a moving tale about “two whales, two boys and two Pauls,” Ohora introduces two kids and their flute-playing father, Paul Horn (1930–2014), who bond with a pair of orcas at a Continue reading »
In this multigenerational epic sprinkled with magic, Nelson (I’ll Give You the Sun) tackles grief, love, and the ways in which history commingles with the present. Fall siblings Continue reading »