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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders as liberators; but soon the Nazis start rounding up Jewish Ukrainians, and Krystia is faced with a terrible choice--risk everything by helping her Jewish friends and neighbors to hide, or save herself and her family by doing nothing. --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
4) Stolen girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A wordless picture book portrayal of war seen through the eyes of a young girl who finds hope in the symbolism of yellow butterflies against the background of a pure blue sky. Using the colors of his national flag, Oleksandr Shatokhin has created a deeply emotional response to the conflict in Ukraine and provided a narrative full of powerful visual metaphors for readers to consider as they travel from the devastating effects of war to a place of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now Luka has smuggled himself out--even though he left behind his dearest friend, Lida. Someday, he vows, he'll find her again. Racing through the mountains, Luka evades capture by both Nazis and Soviet agents. When he meets the underground Ukrainian Insurgent Army, he knows that's where he belongs: fighting Nazis and Soviets alike. But the desperate rescues and guerilla...
8) Winterkill
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming." --
10) Double crossing
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1905, as life becomes increasingly difficult for Jews in Ukraine, eleven-year-old Raizel and her father flee to America in hopes of earning money to bring the rest of the family there, but her father's health and Orthodox faith become barriers.
Author
Publisher
Dead Reckoning
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Katusha is the story of young Ukrainian woman, starting at sixteen years old, and her experience in the deadliest conflict in human history: the 1941-1945 struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. From Barbarossa to Babi Yar, from Stalingrad to Kursk, from the Dnipro to Berlin, follow the foot prints and tanks tracks of this little girl's journey through a time of death, hopelessness, victory, glory ... and even love"--
Author
Publisher
Mandel Vilar Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
