The Boy Who Dared

The Boy Who Dared
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338214314

A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times , to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus)

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus)
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1338088378

Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.

Yellow Star

Yellow Star
Author: Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Biographical fiction
ISBN: 9781845079086

In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions. At the end of the war, there were 800 survivors. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. This is the story of Sylvia Perlmutter, one of the twelve.

The Boy Who Dared to Dream

The Boy Who Dared to Dream
Author: Brad Wilder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre:
ISBN:

The Boy Who Dared to Dream will inspire your child to see themselves as ANYTHING they can imagine. Unleash the greatness within them!Who knows where their imagination will take them.Allow them to Dare to Dream!!

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Author: Rachel Cohn
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375896686

Now a Netflix original series starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis! A whirlwind holiday season romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. “I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.” 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance as Dash and Lily trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City. But can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions, or will their scavenger hunt end in a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions? Co-written by Rachel Cohn (GINGERBREAD) and David Levithan, co-author of WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON with John Green (THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), DASH & LILY'S BOOK OF DARES is a love story that will have readers scouring bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.

Kids on Strike!

Kids on Strike!
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780395888926

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.

They Called Themselves the K.k.k.

They Called Themselves the K.k.k.
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547488033

Boys, let us get up a club.With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America’s democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, this account from Newbery Honor-winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book to read and remember. A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist.

The Girl Who Dared

The Girl Who Dared
Author: Shirin Shamsi
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1644913283

Readers will be inspired by this immigration story about a young refugee whose family tries to emigrate to Pakistan when India is divided into two separate nations. This short, 32-page hi-lo book features full-color illustrations to capture the attention of kids who enjoy realistic fiction stories about characters who must overcome difficult circumstances in order to survive.

Christiaan Barnard:

Christiaan Barnard:
Author: David Cooper
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2017-12-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A Coal Miner's Bride

A Coal Miner's Bride
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Coal miners
ISBN: 9780439445610

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.