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• Anna and the Swallow Man

  Savit, Gavriel,

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  When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.

• Bread Givers

  a Novel

  Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970

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  Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood in 1920s Manhattan.

• Escaping Into the Night

  Friedman, D. Dina

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  Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.

• Eva Underground

  Mackall, Dandi Daley

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  In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

• Lilac Girls

  a Novel

  Kelly, Martha Hall,

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  In 1939 Manhattan, twenty-something Caroline fends off unwanted suitors, while across the Atlantic, teenage Kasia Kuzmerick worries what will come as Germany declares war on her native Poland. As their involvement with the war grows, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lullaby of Polish Girls

  a Novel

  Dominczyk, Dagmara, 1976-

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  Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees. But the summer Anna turns twelve, she is sent back to Poland to visit her grandmother and finds herself in her new friends Justyna and Kamila.

• No Pretty Pictures

  a Child of War

  Lobel, Anita

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  Anita Lobel, a famous illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.

• One Crow Alone

  Crockett, S. D. (Sophie D.),

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  The long, bitter winters are getting worse, and a state of emergency has been declared across Europe. In Poland, villagers are subject to frequent power cuts and fuel shortages. After the death of her grandmother and the evacuation of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebound

  Krech, Bob

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  Determined to make the varsity basketball team, seventeen-year-old Ray finds his efforts to play both hindered and helped by the atmosphere of racism in his town.

• Rose Under Fire

  Wein, Elizabeth

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  When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.