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Here are the lists I received from all the wonderful lm_netters. They are in
no particular order. I hope this helps.
Jennifer Healy
This is a list I printed out from KID-Lit in the spring. It is all
age-levels, and does not indicate which are for which age groups.
I'm in a rush--so this won;t be pretty or capitalized:
adler, davis. We remember the holocaust.
anderson, rachel. paper faces.
auerbacher, inge. I am a star.
ayer, eleanor Parallel Journeys.
Bauer Rain of fire
Bawden Carrie's war
Baylis-Whote Sheltering Rebecca
Begley Wartime Lies
Benary_Isbert the ark
Benary -Isbert Rowan farm
Benchley Bright candles
Bishop Twenty and ten
Boas We are witnesses
Bunting Terrible Things
Butterworth As the waltz was ending
Cooper Dawn of fear
Other bells for us to ring
Degans Transport 7-41-R
Deschamps Spyglass
Dillon Children of Back
Druker Kindertransport
Foreman, War Boy
Gehrt Dont say a word
kerr When hitlre stole pink rabbit
koehn Mischling, second degreee
keohn Tilla
Levitin Journey to america
Lngard Between two workds
Lingard Tug of war
Little Listen for the singing
Lowry Autumn street/number the stars
Matas Daniel's story
Kris' War
Lisa's War
Code Name Chris
Orlev, The Man From the Other side
The Island on bird street
Reiss the upstairs room
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Sharon Ann McLarney
School Media Specialist in Training (who, by the way, needs a job!)
Drexel University, Philadelphia
sg955bfc@post.drexel.edu
Alan and Naomi - Levoy
Anna is still here - Vos
Annie's promise - Levitin
Boys from St. Petri - Reuter
Daniel's story - Matas
Lisa's war - Matas
Devil's arithmetic - Yolen
Escape from Warsaw - Serraillier
Fifth son - Wiesel
Fredrich - Richter
Gentlehands - Kerr
I am Rosemary - Moskin
I was there - Richter
Jacob's rescue -Drucker
Journey back - Reiss
Kris's war - Matas
Refugee - Rose
Sheltering Rebecca - Baylis-White
Touch wood: a girl in occupied France - Roth-Hano
Twenty and ten - Bishop
Upon the head of a goat - Siegal
Waiting for Anya - Morpurgo
When Hitler stole pink rabbit - Kerr
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Jan Weidner
Fred Lynn Middle School
Woodbridge, VA
jweidner@pen.k12.va.us
Molly Donnelly. By Jean Thesman. (FIC) The lead character in
the story is a bit older than 6th grade but describes some
feelings that she had concerning the issues
surrounding the war. I might suggest it more for eighth grade
but you
may want to read it first. (Another described it this way:
About WWII in the states. Molly's best friend & family are
taken to a Japanese internment camp. Molly later learns that
her friend died while in the camp. This is a good novel for
helping kids
understand what war situation was like at home.
I Am an American, about Japanese Americans in an internment
camp.
For the Native American bent, how about the book Navajo Code
Talkers?
For the Danish part of the war: Number the Stars, Lisa's War,
Kris's War
Site about the Jews in WWII on the net. Search on Anne Frank
and it will show up
The Upstairs Room(Newbery Honor book) Reiss, Joanna
The Journey Home
(A Dutch farmer hides two Jewish girls)
(The above are autobiographical)
War Boy(I think this is autobiography also-don't
have author's name in mind)
Diary of Anne Frank (there are some new books
out about her for kids)
Exploring the Bismarck by Robert Ballard
Number the Stars by Lowry Lois
"The Military History of World War II" by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy,
The Upstairs Room (NF),
Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (F),
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn (F),
The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida (E),
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury (Historical Fiction)
try Uchida, who has written many books on Japanese internment.
BASEBALL SAVED US and HEROES also on Japanese Americans,
Hiroshima
ALONG THE TRACKS (maybe a bit difficult),
Orlev books on the holocaust
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story by Drucker
Malka & Michael Halperin is a story based on true fact,-has
pictures at the end of
the people it's about.
Japanese Internment:
Journey to Topaz by
Also, read her autobiography (can't recall the name, though-see
above)
Farewell to Manzanar - book and movie available
Women:
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter - documentary movie and
teacher's
manual available
anything you can get on Jackie Cochrane - an incredible woman.
She wrote 2
autobiographies, and there is now a YA bio of her. She became
a pilot in the
Depression basically to cover enough territory to sell her own
line of
cosmetics, and eventually became a general in the Air Force
Reserve (Chuck
Yeager said she was one of the finest pilots he ever flew
with!). During WW
II, Cochrane organized the Women's Air Force Service Pilots,
and later went on
to try to get NASA to train women Astronauts in the 60's. She
funded a lot
of it herself, with profits from her cosmetics company.
Under the Blood Red Sun, by Graham Salisbury about Japanese
family living on
Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Tomi is a middle school aged boy. His
father and eventually his grandfather are arrested simply
because they live
on the island.
Journey Home about a Japanese internment camp situation with
middle school
girl as main character during WWII.
EMIE BULLETIN
(Ethnic Materials and Information Exchange Round Table)
Vol. XIII, No. 3 Spring 1996
from American Library Association ISSN 0737-9021
bibliography that is available in the previous and current
issue entitled:
"The Japanese American Internment:
An Annotated Bibliography
compiled by Violet H. Harada, Sue Igawa, Sheryl Seino
( All from Honolulu, Hawaii)
Very fine reviews of about 15 items, including CD and
encyclopedias.
--
Kathy Lafferty
klaffert@pen.k12.va.us
Patrick Henry Elementary School
Alexandria, VA
You might try:
Appleman-Jurman. Alicia. Bantam, 1988. (avail. from Perfection
Learning)
Dillon, Ellis. Children of Bach. Scribner, 1992.
Fink, Ida. The Journey. Plume, 1993 (avail. from Penguin)
Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany.
Puffin, 1990. (avail. from Perfection Learning)
Marvin, Isabel R. Bridge to Freedom. Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
Matas, Carol. Code Name Kris. Scribner, 1990.
Morpurgo, Michael. Waiting for Anya. Viking, 1991.
Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna. Puffin, 1978.
Orlev, Ur. The Island on Bird Street. Houghton, 1991.
Provost, Gary, and Gail Levine-Provost. David and Max. Jewish
Publication Society, 1993.
Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room. HarperCollins, 1972. (avail. fromm
Perfection Learning)
Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. Puffin, 1987. (avail. from Perfection
Learning)
Roth-Hano, Renee. Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France.
Macmillan, 1988.
Gerry Solomon
Public Schools of North Carolina
Information Technology Evaluation Services
gsolomon@dpi.sta
This summer, I read The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, and loved it. I
also would recommend The Upstairs room, and if she hasn't already read it,
Letters from Rifka. A book from my long-ago past which i really loved
(written in the 70;s) was Mischling, Second Degree, about a girl who had
Jewish grandparents, I think she was 1/4 Jewish, and didn't even really
realize she was a Jew, but suffered anyway, because she had "Jewish blood."
An absolutely powerful, wonderful, agonizing book is Alan and Naomi, about a
little girl who was traumatized by seeing her father killed in the same room
with her as she hid under the bed. You had better get the kleenex on that
one, and when you get to the last chapter, go into a room by yourself,
because you will sob! It is really a fantastic book.
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