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1) Artifice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
El diario de una niña registra las luchas de su familia durante dos años de haberse escondido de los nazis en la guerra de Holanda.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Sensitively edited, the abridged edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. There are line drawings, lots of family photographs, and an afterword to explain why the diary ends so abruptly.
6) Annelies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy. Anne's beloved diary...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. During the day he hangs out with the daughter of a family friend. They visit the usual sights but also coffee shops and flea markets off the beaten track. At one of these markets Alex spots an ancient-looking mask. Before he knows what he's doing he buys it. Later, in his hotel room, he feels compelled to put the mask on. Alex is sucked into a parallel Amsterdam, one from centuries before which...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
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Description
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
10) The Dutch orphan
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased, her Jewish friends forbidden from performing with her onstage. Alongside her friend Jakob, Johanna helps organize the Artists' Resistance, an underground network allowing Jews to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna hears of a Jewish orphan headed for deportation, she does not think twice. She takes...