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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780374500016 | Night | Wiesel, Elie | A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel night Is Elie Wiesel’s Masterpiece, A Candid, Horrific, And Deeply Poignant Autobiographical Account Of His Survival As A Teenager In The Nazi Death Camps. This New Translation By Marion Wiesel, Elie’s Wife And Frequent Translator, Presents This Seminal Memoir In The Language And Spirit Truest To The Author’s Original Intent. And In A Substantive New Preface, Elie Reflects On The Enduring Importance Of Night And His Lifelong, Passionate Dedication To Ensuring That The World Never Forgets Man’s Capacity For Inhumanity To Man.night Offers Much More Than A Litany Of The Daily Terrors, Everyday Perversions, And Rampant Sadism At Auschwitz And Buchenwald; It Also Eloquently Addresses Many Of The Philosophical As Well As Personal Questions Implicit In Any Serious Consideration Of What The Holocaust Was, What It Meant, And What Its Legacy Is And Will Be.author Bio: Elie Wiesel Is The Internationally Celebrated Author, Nobel Laureate, And Spokesperson For Humanity Whose Decision To Dedicate His Life To Bearing Witness For The Holocaust's Martyrs And Survivors Found Its Earliest And Most Enduring Voice In Night, His Penetrating And Profound Account Of The Nazi Death Camps. Born In The Town Of Sighet, Transylvania, He Was A Teenager When He And His Family Were Taken From Their Home In 1944 To The Auschwitz Concentration Camp, And Then To Buchenwald. Night Is The Terrifying Record Of Elie Wiesel's Memories Of The Death Of His Family, The Death Of His Own Innocence, And His Despair As A Deeply Observant Jew Confronting The Absolute Evil Of Man.elie Wiesel Is The Author Of More Than Forty Internationally Acclaimed Works Of Fiction And Nonfiction. He Has Been Awarded The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, The United States Of America Congressional Gold Medal, The French Legion Of Honor, And, In 1986, The Nobel Peace Prize. He Is The Andrew W. Mellon Professor In The Humanities And University Professor At Boston University. an Autobiographical Narrative In Which The Author Describes His Experiences In Nazi Concentration Camps, Watching Family And Friends Die, And How They Led Him To Believe That God Is Dead. | Paw Prints 2008-04-25 |
| 9780440403272 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Yearling Book | |
| 9780545689168 | One Came Home | Amy Timberlake | Scholastic Inc | |
| 9780553247770 | One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | one Of The Most Significant Works Ever To Emerge From Soviet Russia, This Novel Is Both A Graphic Picture Of World War Ii Work Camp Life And A Testimony To The Human Spirit.the Nationa Masterpiece...squarely In The Mainstream Of Russia's Great Literary Traditions. | Bantam |
| 9781442426740 | P.S. I Still Love You (2) (To All The Boys I've Loved Before) | Han, Jenny | Sequel To: To All The Boys I've Loved Before. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780689832369 | Parallel Journeys | Eleanor H. Ayer, Helen Waterford, Alfons Heck | She was a young German Jew.He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth.This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II.Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth.While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's "master race." While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for the death camp Auschwitz, he was a teenage commander of frontline troops, ready to fight and die for the glory of Hitler and the Fatherland. This book tells both of their stories, side-by-side, in an overwhelming account of the nightmare that was WWII. The riveting stories of these two remarkable people must stand as a powerful lesson to us all.Publishers WeeklyAyer juxtaposes the stories of two WWII youths, one a German Jew and the other a Hitler Youth, excerpted from their published memoirs. "Weak execution undermines the premise of the volume," said PW. Ages 10-up. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.| | Aladdin |
| 9781423101505 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: the Last Olympian | Rick Riordan | The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon. | Hyperion |
| 9781338784022 | Perfect Score (Hunt A Killer, Original Novel) | Ellis, A. M. | Scholastic Inc. | |
| 9780590434812 | Pocahontas And The Strangers (Scholastic Biography) | Clyde Robert Bulla | a Fictionalized Account Of The Life Of Pocahontas Woven About The Few Facts Known From Historical Records. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781338187618 | Red Queen 02 Glass Sword | Victoria Aveyard | Scholastic Book Services | |
| 9780064462082 | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir Of The Cultural Revolution | Jiang, Ji-li | In 1966 Ji-li Jiang turned twelve. An outstanding student and leader, she had everything: brains, the admiration of her peers, and a bright future in China's Communist Party. But that year China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launched the Cultural Revolution, and everything changed. Over the next few years Ji-li and her family were humiliated and scorned by former friends, neighbors, and co-workers. They lived in constant terror of arrest. Finally, with the detention of her father, Ji-li faced the most difficult choice of her life. Told with simplicity and grace, this is the true story of one family's courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. Ages 11+ | HarperCollins |
| 9780517072455 | Robert Frost: Selected Poems | Frost, Robert | Gramercy | |
| 9780590454414 | Robin Hood Of Sherwood Forest | McGovern, Ann | In a time when laws were unfair and the poor were left to starve, Robin Hood was a friend to those in need. Ann McGovern's retelling of this classic tale transports young readers to an era of adventure and heroism. | Apple |
| 0590982079 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |||
| 9781859581810 | Russian Fairy Tales | Wheeler | Senate | |
| 9780545331203 | Saving Zasha | Randi G. Barrow | In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret. | |
| 9780439081931 | Short & Shivery: Forty-Five Chilling Tales | Robert D. San Souci | Scholastic, Inc | |
| 9780689867156 | Silent To The Bone | Konigsburg, E.L. | on Wednesday, November 25, At 2:43 Pm, Eastern Standard Time, Branwell Zamborska Is Struck Dumb. Nikki, His Baby Half Sister, Has Slipped Into A Coma. Branwell Dials 911, But When The Emergency Operator Answers, He Cannot Speak. He Cannot Explain What Is Wrong. He Cannot Utter A Sound. Vivian Shawcurt, The Au Pair From England, Takes Over. She Tells The Emergency Medical Team That Branwell Dropped Nikki And Shook Her. as Branwell's Best Friend, Connor Investigates The Events Leading Up To The Silence, He Slowly Discovers What Branwell's Problems Really Are And What It Takes To Help Branwell Reveal What Happened That Wednesday Afternoon. publishers Weeklythis Middle-grade Novel Combines A Plot Loosely Based On A Real Case With A Taut Psychological Mystery. The Author Inlays The Story With Tantalizing Facts And Peoples It With Her Hallmark Idiosyncratic Characters And Joins Every Element Seamlessly, Said Pw's Best Books Citation. Ages 10-14. (jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. | Simon Pulse |
| 9780316806053 | Space Station Seventh Grade | Spinelli, Jerry | seventh-grader Jason Narrates The Events Of His Year, From School, Hair, And Pimples, To Mothers, Little Brothers, And A Girl.publishers Weeklythis Episodic First Novel By The Author Of Maniac Magee Concerns The Outrageous Traumas Experienced By Junior High Schooler Jason And His Friend Richie. Ages 8-12. (sept.) | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439328807 | Stargirl | Spinelli, Jerry | Scholastic |