Holocaust

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...

Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has...

SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the authorIt is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside,...

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...

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,...

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...

Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson, with an introduction from Ella Risbridger.When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an...

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)...

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...

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...

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,...

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.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Young Adult) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780316260633Author Monica HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young...

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...

"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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9789493231818Author Nechama BirnbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

"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...

Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression until the Nazi occupation wiped the colour from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de...

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.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004 and Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780440420057Author Jerry SpinelliFormat PaperbackPage...

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...

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...

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Indies Choice Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780399254123Author Ruta SepetysFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

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 *...

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 9781250003416Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 147mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593352861Author Ruta SepetysImprint Philomel BooksPublisher Philomel BooksWeight(grams) 140g

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Sydney Taylor Book Award (Young Adult) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780316490573Author Monica HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown Young...

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 9781250034175Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781956769241Author David Michael SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Library Tales PublishingPublisher Library Tales PublishingWeight(grams)...