Suggested Holocaust Literature For Independent Reading
Kindertransport by Olga Levy Drucker (690L) – 5 AR points
After the War by Carol Matas (840L) – 5 AR points
Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo (770L) – 6 AR points
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (730L) – 4 AR points
We Remember the Holocaust by David A. Alder (830L) – 4 AR points
I am a Star by Inge Auerbacker (950L) – 2 AR points
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer (1050L) – 10 AR points
We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the
Holocaust by Jacob Boas (970L) – 8 AR points
Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz’s Story as a Hidden Child in
Nazi-Occupied France by Stacy Cretzmeyer (780L) – 10 AR points
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by
Carmen Agra Deedy (550L) - .5 AR points (picture book)
Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold (890L) – 4 AR points
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs (880L) – 7 AR points
No Pretty Pictures Anita Lobel (750L) – 8 AR points
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (670L) – 4 AR points
Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas (720L) – 5 AR points
Greater than Angels by Carol Matas (690L) – 5 AR points
In My Enemy’s House by Carol Matas (560L) – 6 AR points
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Anne Frank: the Biography by Melissa Muller – 18 AR points
The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang (720L) – 6 AR points
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl (1080L) – 4 AR
points
When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera Propp (540L) – 2 AR points
Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici (790L) – 13 AR
points
Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust by Ruth
Radin (660L) – 2 AR points
Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Freidl Dicker-Brandeis and the
Children of Terezin by Susan Rubin (890L) – 1 AR point
Grace in the Wilderness: After Liberation 1945-1948 by Aranka Siegal
(830L) – 11 AR points
Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J.
Massaquoi – no AR test – written test for 7 points
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (730L) – 18 AR points
Holocaust: the events and their impact on real people by Angela
Gluck Wood – no AR test – written test for 5 points
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia
Bitton-Jackson (720L) – 8 AR points
In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry by Carla
Killough McClafferty (1000L) – 8 AR points
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti (1050L) – 6 AR points
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Viewing the Holocaust Today by Philip Brooks – no AR test – written
test for 7 points
Marika by Andrea Cheng – 5 AR points
Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (740L) –
9 AR points
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1080L) – 7 AR points
My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto by Frank Dabba Smith and
Mendel Grossman - .5 AR points
Escaping into the Night by Dina D. Friedman – 6 AR points
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany by Eleanor
Ramrath Garner (940L) – 15 AR points
Displace Persons: The Liberation and Abuse of Holocaust Survivors
by Ted Gottfried and Stephen Alcorn – no AR test – written AR test
for 8 points
Martyrs to Madness: The Victims of the Holocaust by Ted Gottfried –
3 AR points
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (660L) – 4 AR points
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz (760L) – 7 AR points
I Want Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
by Laura Hillman (740L) – 6 AR points
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia
Bitton Jackson (720L) – 8 AR points
Simon Wiesenthal: Tracking Down Nazi Criminals by Laura S. Jeffrey
– 3 AR points
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (940L) – 9 AR points
The Big Lie: A True Story by Isabella Leitner and Judy Pederson
(700L) – 1 AR point
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of
the Jews by Ellen Levine (890L) – 7 AR points
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1080L) – 14 AR points
Night by Elie Wiesel (570L) – 4 AR points
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (900L) – 13 AR points
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (510L) – 7 AR points
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (760L) – 5 AR
points
Maus Series (graphic novels about Holocaust) by Art Spiegelman 2-3
AR points, depending on which book in the series
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (490L) – 9 AR points
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman – 16 AR points
You may view the following sources to see summaries of these books, as well as other books
related to the Holocaust:
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/bibliographies/holocaustmiddle-school.html
http://www.classroomhelp.com/holocaust/books.html
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1720.Well_Written_Holocaust_Books
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