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Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group of young teenagers stood up for what is right. Among them is a young Jewish boy who learns to forge documents to save his mother and later goes on to save hundreds of lives with his forgery skills. There is...
4) Stone angel
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While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
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Gustave doesn't want to move from the exciting city to the boring countriside, far from his cousin Jean-Paul and his best friend Marcel. But he has no choice. It is March of 1940 and Paris is not a safe place for Jews. When Paris is captured by the Nazis, Gustave knows that Marcel, Jean-Paul, and their families must make it out of the occupied zone. And when he learns that his new friend Nicole works for the French Resistance, he comes up with...
10) Odette's secrets
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.
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Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
c1988
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English
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In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Reneé, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Reneé and her sister escape to the shelter of a convent in Normandy.
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Resistance trilogy volume 1
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First Second
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Although their father is in a German P.O.W. camp, Paul and Marie are barely touched by World War II in Vichy, France, in 1942. But, when their friend Henri's parents disappear, the children decide to hide their Jewish friend from the Nazis and soon find themselves involved in the French Resistance.
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