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Non-Fiction for Old Readers

Adler, David. Child of the Warsaw Ghetto. Illustrated by Karen Ritz. New York : Holiday House, 1995. (32)p. $15.95 ISBN: 0-8234-1160-5. Picture Book for grades 4-8. This slim, grim volume chronologically details the Ghetto's graphic history through a surviving child.

Ayer, Eleanor et al. Parallel Journeys. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995. 244p. index. photos. $15. ISBN: 0-689-31830-8. YA Holocaust history. Holocaust experiences from both sides simultaneously! A Jewish girl and a Nazi boy alternate voices revealing what happened, confessing how it felt, and deducing moral lessons.

Morin, Isobel V. Days of Judgment : The World War II War Crimes Trials. Brookfield, CT : Millbrook, 1995. 144p. $16.40 ISBN: 1-56294-442-8. YA History. This is a clear, concise evaluation of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. Photographs and no-frills vocabulary combine to weigh facts, sift results, recall prevailing passions and establish contemporary relevance.

Rochman, Hazel & McCampbell, Darlene. Bearing Witness : Stories of the Holocaust. New York : Orchard Books, 1995. 135p. $15.95. ISBN: 0-531-09488-X. Personal Narrative for grades 5-12. Carefully selected, brilliantly pared and well arranged literary excerpts from long works create a comprehensive, chronological Holocaust history which builds in tension, interest and emotion. Superb for classroom use.

Stewart, Gail B. Life in the Warsaw Ghetto. San Diego : Lucent Books, 1995. 112p. $16.95 ISBN: 1-56006-075-1. History for grades 6-12. All the ugly details of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Jews who suffered there are documented in this emotionally tough book. The photographs are incredible. The lesson is clear: it never should have happened.

Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Novac, George Newman (Translator)

No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel

Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport by Anne L. Fox and Eva Abraham-Podiets

 



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