Herschel
Biography of Herschel Grynszpan, who in November, 1938 gunned down Baron Ernst vom Rath, a high ranking Nazi diplomat, and thus forcing Hitler to begin Kristallnacht, the execution of the Jews and World War II.
921
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: 921
lexile:
Unison Spark
Fifteen-year-old Mistletoe lives in the sub-canopy zone amid poverty and outdated technology, but when she meets Ambrose Truax, the privileged sixteen-year-old heir to the Unison empire and they discover they share a sinister link, they begin a frightening journey into the uncharted territory of the Unison 3.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
Uncrashable Dakota
In 1912, an airship on its maiden flight is hijacked and young Hollis Dakota, heir to the Dakota Aeronautics empire, his friend Delia, and stepbrother Rob, become embroiled in a family feud that could send the ship--and them--crashing from the sky.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), juvenile fiction / historical / military & wars, adventure fiction, stepbrothers, social classes
The Door
"Twelve-year-old Hannah Silver can sense things that other people cannot, and living in Cliff House she is surrounded by secrets and the voices of people who are not really there--but when she finds her mother murdered she will have to confront the secret of a mysterious door that may lead to another world"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
Autonomous
"William wins a driverless car that takes him and his friends anywhere they want to go .
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
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Execution
"Summer 1944. Max, Gerta, and their parents have abandoned their home and relocated to a safehouse in a different Berlin neighborhood.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hitler, adolf, anti-nazi movement, brothers and sisters, world war, 1939-1945, siblings, germany, historical fiction
Conspiracy
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions.Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefreechildhood amid the air raids.
FIC
year:
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hitler, adolf, anti-nazi movement, brothers and sisters, world war, 1939-1945, siblings, germany, historical fiction
Escape
"July 1945. The Nazis are out for blood. After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin.
FIC
year:
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hitler, adolf, anti-nazi movement, brothers and sisters, world war, 1939-1945, siblings, germany, historical fiction
Escape From Chernobyl
"Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: chernobyl nuclear accident, chornobyl?, ukraine, 1986, families, survival, environmental disasters, family life, survival skills, disasters, ukraine, historical fiction
Escape From East Berlin
"Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East--with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled Eastern side.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Escape From Stalingrad
"Artem lives in the sleepy city of Stalingrad, which has mostly been cut off from war with Nazi Germany--until the summer of 1942.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: stalingrad, battle of, volgograd, russia, 1942-1943, stalingrad (volgograd, russia), battle of, 1942-1943, soviet union, russia, historical fiction, thrillers (fiction)
Escape From Alcatraz
In 1962, Chip Carter, son of a guard at Alcatraz, stumbles on to an escape plan and finds himself forced to aid the prisoners, because he is afraid that his father is somehow involved in the plot--and he needs to find out the truth.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: united states penitentiary, alcatraz island, california, prisons, escapes, fathers and sons, crime, detectives, mystery and detective stories, father-son relationship, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, alcatraz island (calif.), historical fiction, detective and mystery fiction