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Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
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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List of abbreviations:

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