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Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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The Red Tent | Diamant, Anita | 1997 | YA A | Early Civilization | 1600 BCE | Western Asia | Middle East | Mesopotamia Biblical Patriarchy | M | N |
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells | Carson Levine, Gail | 2009 | UMG MG | Renaissance | 1483-1492 | Europe | Spain | Spanish Inquisition Jewish Persecution | F | N |
Across So Many Seas | Behar, Ruth | 2024 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1492-2003 | Europe North America | Spain Cuba United States | Spanish Inquisition Sephardic Jews Diaspora | F | N |
Incantation | Hoffman, Alice | 2006 | A | Renaissance | 1500 | Europe | Spain | Spanish Inquisition Jewish Persecution | F | N |
The Familiar | Bardugo, Leigh | 2024 | A | Renaissance | 1590 | Europe | Spain | Spanish Inquisition Jewish Persecution Sephardic Jews | HF | N |
Out of Many Waters | Greene, Jacqueline | 2002 | UMG | Enlightenment | 1654 | Europe | Portugal | Portuguese Inquisition Sea Travel | F | N |
Dear Mr. Dickens | Churnin, Nancy | 2021 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1812-1870 | Europe | Great Britain | Charles Dickens antisemitism | NF | PB |
The City Beautiful | Polydoros, Aden | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1893 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Jewish Immigration Chicago World's Fair | F | N |
Audacity | Crowder, Melanie | 2016 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1898-1950 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Activism | F | N |
All-of-a-Kind Family | Taylor, Syndey | 1951 | MG | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | CB |
Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story | Newman, Lesléa | 2019 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1900-1920 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Ellis Island | F | PB |
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes | Hochschild, Adam | 1999 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1903-1933 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Rose Pastor Stokes | NF Bio | N |
A Sky Full of Song | Meyer, Susan Lynn | 2023 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1905 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Westward Expansion | F | CB |
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | Marrin, Albert | 2011 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | NF | CB |
Uprising | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | F | CB |
A Bend in the Stars | Barenbaum, Rachel | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1914 | Russia | Russia | Russian Revolution Women in Science | F | N |
The First Bright Thing | Dawson, J.R. | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1917-1926 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | HF | N |
The Postcard | Berest, Anne | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1918-2019 | Europe | France | WWII Jewish Life antisemitism Holocaust Survivors | F | N |
Letters From Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 2009 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1919-1920 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration | F | CB |
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern | Cohen Loigman, Lynda | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1922-1988 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | N |
When the World Was Ours | Kessler, Liz | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1936-1945 | Europe | Austria | WWII Holocaust | F | N |
Anya's War | Alban, Andrea | 2011 | YA | Modern Age | 1937-1945 | Asia | China | WWII Jewish Immigration | F | N |
Hidden Hope | Boxer, Elisa | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | France | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | F | PB |
The Blood Years | Arnold, Elana K. | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust | F | N |
Four Perfect Pebbles | Blumenthal Lazan, Marion | 1996 | UMG | Modern Age | 1938-1948 | Europe | Germany Holland | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II | Levi, Lia | 2022 | MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Italy | WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation | NF | CB |
My Name is Selma | van de Perre, Selma | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | NF | M |
Atomic Anna | Barenbaum, Rachel | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1992 | Europe North America | Russia United States | Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union | HF | N |
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport | Stelson, Caren | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Czechoslovakia | Holocaust Kindertransport | F | PB |
Out of Hiding | Gruener, Ruth | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1938-2019 | Europe | Poland United States | Holocaust Immigration Jewish Refugees | NF | M |
We Were the Lucky Ones | Hunter, Georgia | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1946 | Europe | Poland | WWII | F | N |
Upon the Head of the Goat | Siegal, Aranka | 2003 | UMG | Modern Age | 1939-1944 | Europe | Hungary | Holocaust Hungary | NF Bio | CB |
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Lobel, Anita | 2008 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
The Girl Who Sang | Nadel, Estelle Savos, Sammy Strout, Bethany | 2024 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1939-1951 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Nazi Occupation | NF | GN |
Names in a Jar | Gold, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1987 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust WWII | F | N |
Beyond Courage | Rappaport, Doreen | 2014 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Germany | Holocaust | F | B |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million | Mendelsohn, Daniel | 2013 | A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Eastern Europe | Ukraine | Holocaust | NF | N |
When We Flew Away | Hoffman, Alice | 2024 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1942 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust | F | CB |
Esfir is Alive | Simon, Andrea | 2016 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F Bio | N |
Catherine's War | Billet, Julia | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | France | WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation | F | GN |
The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel | Dai Randel, Weina | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1940 | Asia | China | WWII Jewish Immigration | F | N |
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto | Safier, David | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | F | N |
Night | Wiesel, Elie | 1958 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust Auschwitz | NF Bio | N |
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe | Sheinkin, Steve | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | NF Bio | B |
The Librarian of Auschwitz | Iturbe, Antonio | 2012 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | F Bio | N |
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Shusterman, Neal | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | various | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | HF | GN |
Twenty and Ten | Bishop, Claire Hutchet | 1952 | MG | Modern Age | 1940-1944 | Europe | France | WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation | F | CB |
Mapping the Bones | Yolen, Jane | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F Bio | N |
Briar Rose | Yolen, Jane | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
The Devil's Arithmetic | Yolen, Jane | 1988 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F HF | CB |
Once | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
Stone Angel | Yolen, Jane | 2015 | LE | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | France | Holocaust | F | PB |
Then | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Frank, Anne | 1947 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Dauvillier, Loïc | 2014 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | France | Holocaust | F | GN |
The Boy with the Star Tattoo | Carner, Talia | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1942-1969 | Europe Middle East | France Israel | Jewish Life kibbutz Youth Aliyah | F | N |
Wrath Becomes Her | Polydoros, Aden | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1943 | Europe | Lithuania | WWII Jewish Resistance | HF | N |
I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz | Kor, Eva Mozes | 2022 | MG | Modern Age | 1943-2019 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust Nazi Occupation Auschwitz | NF | CB |
Code Name Kingfisher | Kessler, Liz | 2024 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1943-2024 | Europe | Netherlands Great Britain | WWII Jewish Resistance | F | N |
The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story | Birnbaum, Nechama | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944 | Europe | Romania Germany | Holocaust Auschwitz | F | N |
Number the Stars | Lowry, Lois | 2011 | MG | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Denmark | WWII | F | CB |
They Went Left | Hesse, Monica | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Poland Germany | Holocaust | F | N |
The Search | Heuvel, Eric | 2009 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust | F | GN |
Dawn | Wiesel, Elie | 1960 | YA A | Modern Age | 1946-1948 | Europe | Palestine | Holocaust Post WWII | NF Bio | N |
Not Our Kind | Zeldis, Kitty | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1947 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | N |
Songs for the Brokenhearted | Tsabari, Ayelet | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1950-1995 | Middle East | Israel | Jewish Life Yemeni Jews Mizrahi Jews | F | N |
Day | Wiesel, Elie | 1961 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States | Holocaust Post WWII | NF Bio | N |
This Rebel Heart | Locke, Katherine | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1956 | Europe | Hungary | Revolution Hungarian Revolution LGBTQ+ | F | N |
In the Neighborhood of True | Kaplan Carlton, Susan | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1958 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | N |
Margot | Cantor, Jillian | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1959 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Holocaust Holocaust Survivors | F | N |
The Prince of Steel Pier | Nockowitz, Stacy | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1975 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Atlantic City Mobsters | F | N |
The Blackbird Girls | Blankman, Anne | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1986 | Europe | Ukraine Russia Uzbekistan | Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union | F | CB |
Right Back At You | Mackler, Carolyn | 2025 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1987-2023 | North America | United States | Jewish Life bullying | HF | CB |
People of the Book | Brooks, Geraldine | 2008 | YA A | Modern Age | 1996 | Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo Haggadah | F | N |
Now | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2013 | Australia | Australia | Holocaust Post WWII | F | N |
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |