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The Locket

author: Lieurance, Suzanne
After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant, survives a terrible fire at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories.
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year: 2008
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: sisters, labor unions, immigrants, jews [X], new york (n.y.), triangle shirtwaist company, historical fiction [X], adventure fiction [X]

The Nazi Invasion, 1944

author: Ball, Georgia
An evocatively rendered graphic-novel adaptation depicts the experiences of two Jewish children whose father is taken away by the Nazis before they make a daring resuce from their Jewish ghetto to a resistance fighter camp.
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year:
copies: 70
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), jews [X], nazis, poland, graphic novels, adventure fiction [X], historical fiction [X]

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