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By Margaret Wise Brown. 1977
Children will find answers to questions like "What is the important thing about rain?" Grades P-2. 1977. Taped with: The…
Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown. In an imaginary game of hide-and-seek, a little rabbit keeps running away from his mother, but she finds him every time. Grades P-2. 1970. Taped with: Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown. A little rabbit says goodnight to all the things in his bedroom. Grades P-2. 1975. Taped with: A Little Fir Tree, by Margaret Wise Brown. A little fir tree is uprooted and moved to spend Christmas and winters with a young boy who is confined to his bed and cannot visit the tree himself. Grades P-2. 1985.By Tomi Ungerer. 2002
"Tomi Ungerer est Alsacien, comme vous-mêmes êtes Breton, Parisien, Basque, Ch'timi ou Berrichon. Ça paraît simple, et pourtant c'est très…
compliqué. Car après la guerre de 1870, l'Alsace a été annexée par l'Allemagne. Après la victoire de 1918, elle est redevenue française. Mais suite à la débâcle de 1940, elle est redevenue allemande. Et en 1945, française à nouveau. Tomi a huit ans quand la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate. Du jour au lendemain, il doit changer de nom, parler allemand, écrire en gothique, faire un dessin raciste pour son premier devoir nazi. Il obéit, il s'adapte. Il devient un caméléon : Français sous son toit, Allemand à l'école, Alsacien avec les copains. Heureux, quoi qu'il arrive. À la maison, sa mère, fantasque, chaleureuse et rusée, veille. Elle l'encourage à dessiner et à écrire, à rire et à faire rire, à déployer tous ses talents. Toute sa vie, elle a conservé les cahiers, les croquis, les devoirs, le journal intime de son fils, les affiches de l'époque. Ce sont ces archives incomparables qui ponctuent et réveillent les souvenirs de guerre de Tomi Ungerer. " -- 4e de couvBy Heather Morris. 2020
Sous un ciel de plomb, des prisonniers défilent à l'entrée du camp dAuschwitz. Bientôt, ils ne seront plus que des…
numéros tatoués sur le bras. C'est Lale, un déporté, qui est chargé de cette sinistre tâche. Il travaille le regard rivé au sol pour éviter de voir la douleur dans les yeux de ceux qu'il marque à jamais. Un jour, pourtant, il lève les yeux sur Gita et la jeune femme devient sa lumière dans ce monde d'une noirceur infinie. Ils savent d'emblée qu'ils sont faits l'un pour l'autre. Mais dans cette prison où l'on se bat pour un morceau de pain et pour sauver sa vie, il n'y a pas de place pour l'amour. Ils doivent se contenter de minuscules moments de joie, qui leur font oublier le cauchemar du quotidien. Mais Lale a fait une promesse : un jour, ils seront libres, deux jeunes gens heureux de vivre ensemble. Deux personnes plus fortes que l'horreur du mondeBy Mark Cheverton. 2014
Trapped inside Minecraft, player Gameknight999 and his friend Crafter have been transported to a new server. Knowing that Malacoda, King…
of the Nether, plans to destroy Minecraft, the duo searches the land to recruit an army. Sequel to Invasion of the Overworld (DB 81527). For grades 4-7. 2014After discovering that zombies have destroyed his Minecraft village, Steve embarks on a mission to mine forty diamonds in order…
to make a diamond sword that he can use against the walking-dead menace. For grades 3-6. 2014By Mark Cheverton. 2014
Minecraft player Gameknight999 intentionally harasses other players and delights in ruining their campaigns and buildings. When he's transported into the…
game, however, he discovers that everything inside Minecraft is real. He must cooperate with others in order to stay alive. For grades 4-7. 2013By Eric A. Kimmel, Jim Madsen. 2009
Story based on childhood events of Harry Houdini (1874-1926), who became a famous magician and escape artist. Describes Harry and…
his brother Dash learning to walk a tightrope after going to the circus with their family for the first time. For grades 2-4. 2009By Nikki Grimes. 2013
When Gabby's parents separate, her tendency to daydream becomes essential to coping with life's difficulties, which only increase when she…
moves with her mother to a new home and a new school. For grades 3-6By Irving Stone. 1996
Rachel Donelson Robards first meets lawyer Andrew Jackson when she is separated from her abusive husband, Lewis. After they fall…
in love they travel to the Spanish territories to obtain her divorce in order to marry. When war hero Jackson later ventures into politics, his wife's scandalous past creates a crisis. 1951By Sally Hobart Alexander. 2000
A writer who went blind at age twenty-six answers questions that children have frequently asked during her visits to schools.…
She discusses reading, working with her guide dog, meeting her husband, and parenting her two children, as well as her reactions to being blind. For grades 4-7. 2000By Turk Pipkin. 1999
When Michael Walker was a child, he'd wished that every day could be Christmas. But that was thirty years ago,…
before a tragic accident changed his life one Christmas morning. He still can't muster any spirit for the holidays. For him, it will always be a time of pain, a memory of that day. But when his young son faces a sadness as profound as his own, Michael is the only one who can save him. It takes nothing short of a miracle to give Michael the courage to make peace with his past and find the hope, joy, and spirit he lostBy Aranka Siegal. 2003
Author recounts her experiences as a young Jewish girl during Hitler's rise to power. Recalls being trapped in Ukraine while…
visiting her grandmother, returning to her family in Hungary, and being forcibly moved to an Auschwitz ghetto. Describes the many wartime restrictions. For grades 6-9. Newbery Honor Book. 1981By Petie Kladstrup. 2002
Les vignobles faisaient partie des grandes richesses de la France et furent d'abondance pillées par les troupes allemandes d'occupation. L'ouvrage…
raconte comment les vignerons tentèrent de protéger leurs trésors des convoitises nazies. Élaboré à partir de nombreux témoignages, le récit d'épisodes dramatiques dans l'histoire du vin et de sa production. [SDMBy Maurice Rajsfus. 2002
Un récit en deux temps: le port obligatoire de l'étoile jaune, imposé en 1942 aux Juifs de la zone occupée…
par la Gestapo mais appliqué par les policiers français; l'arrestation de l'auteur et de sa famille et leur déportation à AuschwitzBy Jacques Chessex, Donald Wilson. 1973
Praise for A Jew Must Die:"Chessex, our new Flaubert, has no equal when describing horror without flinching, screaming sotto voce…
and exploring guilt in taut prose."--Le Nouvel Observateur"A masterpiece. Beauty of the world, ubiquity of evil, God's silence, it's all there, delivered like a slap to the face."--Le Point"A great author explores a nightmare not as anachronistic as it might appear."--L'HebdoA novel based on a true story.On April 16, 1942, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into an empty stable and kill him with a crowbar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more worried about unemployment and local bankruptcies than the fate of nations across the border. Fernand Ischi, leader of the local Nazi cell, blames it all on the town's Jewish population and wants to set an example, thinking the German embassy would be grateful. Ischi's dream of becoming the local gauleiter is shattered, however, when the milk containers used to dissimulate Bloch's body parts is discovered floating in a lake nearby, leading to his arrest.Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, is one of Switzerland's greatest authors. He knew the murderers, went to school with their children, and has written a terse, implacable story that has awakened memories in a country that seems to endlessly rediscover dark areas of its past.By Laura Marris, Christophe Boltanski. 2017
In Paris’s exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts…
are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl space at the heart of the house. There he lived for the duration of the war. With the Liberation, Étienne finally emerged, but he and his family were changed forever—anxious, reclusive, yet proudly eccentric. Their lives were spent, amid Bohemian disarray and lingering wartime fears, in the mansion’s recesses or packed comically into the protective cocoon of a Fiat. That house (and its vehicular appendage) are at the heart of Christophe Boltanski’s ingeniously structured, lightly fictionalized account of his grandparents and their extended family. The novel unfolds room by room—each chapter opening with a floorplan— introducing us to the characters who occupy each room, including the narrator’s grandmother--a woman of “savage appetites”--and his uncle Christian, whose haunted artworks would one day make him famous. “The house was a palace,” Boltanski writes, “and they lived like hobos.” Rejecting convention as they’d rejected the outside world, the family never celebrated birthdays, or even marked the passage of time, living instead in permanent stasis, ever more closely bonded to the house itself. The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, The Safe House is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family.By Laura Marris, Christophe Boltanski. 2017
In Paris’s exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts…
are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl space at the heart of the house. There he lived for the duration of the war. With the Liberation, Étienne finally emerged, but he and his family were changed forever—anxious, reclusive, yet proudly eccentric. Their lives were spent, amid Bohemian disarray and lingering wartime fears, in the mansion’s recesses or packed comically into the protective cocoon of a Fiat. That house (and its vehicular appendage) are at the heart of Christophe Boltanski’s ingeniously structured, lightly fictionalized account of his grandparents and their extended family. The novel unfolds room by room—each chapter opening with a floorplan— introducing us to the characters who occupy each room, including the narrator’s grandmother--a woman of “savage appetites”--and his uncle Christian, whose haunted artworks would one day make him famous. “The house was a palace,” Boltanski writes, “and they lived like hobos.” Rejecting convention as they’d rejected the outside world, the family never celebrated birthdays, or even marked the passage of time, living instead in permanent stasis, ever more closely bonded to the house itself. The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, The Safe House is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family.By Günter Grass, Breon Mitchell. 2009
The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translation in…
1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature.To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealth of detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-available reference works; and from the author himself. The result is a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work.After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends-Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews-waiting to be discovered and re-discovered.By Riyukta Raghunath. 2020
This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a literary…
genre that comprises narratives set in worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of our world, usually speculating on what would have happened had a significant historical event (such as a war) turned out differently. The author develops a systematic critical approach based on a customised model of Possible Worlds Theory supplemented by cognitive concepts that account for the different processes that readers go through when they read counterfactual historical fiction, a genre which relies heavily on pre-existing knowledge about history and culture. This book will be of interest to anyone working with Possible Worlds, including within the fields of philosophy, literary studies, stylistics, cognitive poetics, and narratology.By Ida Simons. 2014
It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows…
are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to "the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish families".After every matrimonial slanging match, Gittel's mother runs off to her parents' home in Antwerp - with her daugher in tow. Much to her delight, Gittel makes the acquaintance of the well-to-do Mardell family, who allow her to practise on their Steinway. Gittel feels that she is taken seriously by Mr Mardell, the head of the household, and by thirty-year-old Lucie, whom she adores. When these friendships turn out to be nothing but an illusion, Gittel learns her first lessons about trust and betrayal. Her second comes soon after, when her father, whose talents for business leave much to be desired, attempts to make a quick killing in Berlin on the eve of the Wall Street Crash.Though this intimate portrayal of familial strife is set in the shadow of the Holocaust, Simons says little about the horror that awaits her characters, yet she succeeds in giving the reader the sense that the novel is about more than a young girl's loss of innocence. In a fluid, almost casual style, she has written a masterly and timeless ode to a relatively carefree interlude in a dark and dramatic period.Translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters