The Man from the Other Side

Marek has never thought about the Jewish people who live in the Warsaw Ghetto near his home—until he helps his stepfather smuggle food and guns through the sewer to sell there. Even then, he does not truly understand what it means to be isolated, persecuted, and faced with almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Then Marek meets a Jewish man on the run—and, in helping him, is thrust into the middle of an uprising. “From the first page, this grabs you like a thriller.”—Booklist, starred review “Subtle, beautifully crafted, altogether compelling.”—Kirkus Reviews, pointer review "This is a story of individual bravery and national shame that highlights just how hopeless was the fate of the Warsaw Jews as they fought alone and heroically against the Nazi war machine." —School Library Journal, starred review

Children's Books

Orlev, Uri

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

During World War II, a Romanian girl tries to cope with her parents' divorce and her new life on a kibbutz

Lydia, Queen of Palestine (Puffin Book)

Teen & Young Adult

Puffin

The Lady with the Hat

In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel

The true story of a teenager's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, as he discovers his own heritage and finds himself caught up in the war through underground dealings.

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

The Island on Bird Street

Historical Fiction

Clarion Books

Translated from Hebrew, this story features a self-described "holy terror," a Romanian girl in Bucharest during World War II, who uses her imagination to cope with her parents' divorce and her relocation to a kibbutz in Palestine.

Lydia, Queen of Palestine

Halkin, Hillel

Geography & Cultures

Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Theresa, like Yulek, is uncertain about her place in the postwar world. Together they struggle to rediscover the joy of living. Meanwhile, a mysterious English woman sets out on her own search for the long-lost nephew that she has spotted in a newspaper photo of Jewish refugees. Perhaps by finding him, she will also find some long-hidden part of herself.

HMH Books for Young Readers

Michael’s grandfather has a secret—a secret that’s almost too strange to share . . . When Michael moves to Israel, he leaves loneliness behind and steps into the light of his grandfather’s magic. Like a sorcerer’s apprentice, Michael learns how to blur the lines between dreams and reality when his grandfather hands down the most precious of gifts—a gift that allows Michael passage into his grandfather’s dreams. Written with a quiet simplicity that wins the reader over at once Uri Orlev writes in a style so sure and yet so unassuming that it is certain to linger in reader’s minds long after turning the last page.

The Song of the Whales

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

The Island on Bird Street (English and Hebrew Edition)

Demco Media

A teenager's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. "This is a story of individual bravery and national shame that highlights just how hopeless was the fate of the Warsaw Jews." -- School Library Journal, starred review

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The Man from the Other Side

Lydia, Queen of Palestine (Puffin Book)

The Lady with the Hat

The Man from the Other Side

The Island on Bird Street

Lydia, Queen of Palestine

The Lady with the Hat

The Song of the Whales

The Island on Bird Street (English and Hebrew Edition)

The Man from the Other Side