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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theatre of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. His compelling tale of justice and cruelty, friendhsip and love comes to life in this clear, modern version. Thge stofy of Shylock's deadly cleaim for a pound of Antonio's flesh, of the horror and helplessness of Antonio's friends, and of the mysterious young lawyer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
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"Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history." "Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, Diane Ackerman re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests" - Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled...
7) Peony
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The life of a bondservant is inextricably related to the Jewish family she serves in this historic novel of K'aifeng Jews in the early 1800s.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 39
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Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she is offered the job of her dreams working in a summer stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensley charismatic director.Released from th esocial constraints of her old-fasghioned New York Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theatrican invention, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest- and the most destructive-...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Sensitively edited, the abridged edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. There are line drawings, lots of family photographs, and an afterword to explain why the diary ends so abruptly.
10) Number the Stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter...
11) The source
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An archeological excavation of Tell Makor initiates a journey into the ancient history and culture of Israel that explores the life of the early Hebrews, the impact of Christianity, the Spanish inquisition, and the modern Middle East conflict.
13) Ivanhoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.9 - AR Pts: 40
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It's a dangerous time in England, with a power-hungry king and cruel lords bringing suffering to the land. No one knows who to trust, least of all the young knight, Ivanhoe. He must fight for his name, his rights, his people, and the woman he loves.
14) The book thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first bookalthough she has not yet learned how to readand her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers...
15) Twenty and ten
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.
18) Exodus
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
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Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury - the story of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.