Re: Books about the Holocaust and others of Jewish content for Gr. 6 - 12:
Here are some suggestions by grade, most of them available in
more detail in the Jewish Values Finder,
<http://www.ajljewishvalues.org>www.ajljewishvalues.org. All of them
are highly discussable and quite a few have study guides available.
Grade 6
Holocaust: The Good Liar by Gregory Maguire.
Holocaust: The Boy In the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
Holocaust: I Never Saw Another Butterfly, 2nd Ed. by Hana Volovkova.
Israel: Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi
Grade 7
Holocaust: Mara's Stories by Gary Schmidt
Holocaust: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Holocaust: Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow by Susan
Bartoletti
Anti-Semitism:Tunes For Bears to Dance To by Robert Cormier
Grade 8
Holocaust: Room In the Heart by Sonia Levitin.
Holocaust: Daniel, Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz.
Anti-Semitism: The Diary of Pelly D by L. J. Adlington
Anti-Semitism: The Cure by Sonia Levitin
Grade 9
Israel: Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass
Jewish Identity: Room In the Heart by Sonia Levitin
Jewish Family: Birdland by Tracy Mack
Grade 10
Holocaust: Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary: The First Complete Edition
Holocaust: I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the
Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson (there are two sequels)
Grade 11
Holocaust: Maus books, 1 and 2.
Anti-Semitism: Shylock's Daughter by Miryam Pressler
Israel: Light Years by Tammar Stein
Grade 12
Holocaust: Night by Elie Wiesel
Holocaust: "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick. (Short story
available in Out of the Whirlwind: A Reader of Holocaust Literture
edited by Albert H. Friedlander)
Linda Silver, Editor
Jewish Values Finder
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