Holocaust

A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya. England, 1937. Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something...

Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war.'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old...

The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without...

Bruno doesn't like his new house. He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin, and there are no children to play with here - until Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the wire fence near Bruno's house, and who wears a strange...

From the bestselling author of Wonder comes the graphic novel White Bird: soon to be a major film starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson.To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's...

What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart. When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493231795Author Nechama BirnbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Germany, 1945. Eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman is alive, but not whole. Her body is just beginning to heal from the trauma of the Holocaust, her mind is broken, and her life is shattered. She knows that she will never see her beloved parents,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618957064Author Uri OrlevFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 11mm

“A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the midst of the horrors of war. The ending had me in tears.”—Malinda Lo, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Last Night at the Telegraph ClubFor...

What would the world look like if the Nazis had won the war? Wolf by Wolf is a gripping thriller about one girl's extraordinary mission to kill Hitler. "Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it! I can't wait for the sequel." Laini Taylor,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IRA Young Adult Choices and Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award. Nominated for Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award and Iowa Teen Book Award and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338355932Author Sharon CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 150mm *...

Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank." Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493231818Author Nechama BirnbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316316712Author Monica HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451478757Author Matt KilleenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Norway didn't have many Jews-but it had enough to attract Hitler's attention. It's 1940 in Norway, and one Jewish family would rather be thinking of anything else. Budding artist Rebekka Davidson sketches the soldiers filling the school and streets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250258038Author Antonio IturbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385751896Author John BoyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312653040Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire ghetto is to be 'liquidated' - killed or resettled to concentration camps - she desperately tries to find a...

"A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the midst of the horrors of war. The ending had me in tears."-Malinda Lo, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Last Night at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 6-8) 2015 and Golden Sower Award (Young Adult) 2015 and Isinglass Teen Read Award 2014. Commended for Georgia...

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely...

"Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." -Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With UsFrankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of...

Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose, a group that wrote and distributed anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime and calling for action from their fellow German...

Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book AwardNamed a best book of the year by the Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, SLJ, ALA Booklist, the Horn Book, and moreRecipient of five starred reviewsFrom Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award...

From winner of Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Friedrich and for readers of Number the Stars and If I Should Die Before I Wake. Hans and his friend Gunther, are just trying to get through life with Adolf Hitler being elected in Germany...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2007 and Book Sense Children's Pick List 2007 and Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book 2006 and Horn Book Fanfare 2006 and IRA Notable Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250034175Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Between 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic Carrillo's suspenseful novel Acts of Resistance is based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316316699Author Monica HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956769241Author David Michael SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Library Tales PublishingPublisher Library Tales PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101934180Author Markus ZusakFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Knopf Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Indies Choice Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780142420591Author Ruta SepetysFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338355949Author Sharon CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria's shock,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List 2019 and William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781524700386Author Vesper StamperFormat...

Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labour in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria's shock,...