Greater Than Angels
10 best books like Greater Than Angels (Carol Matas): A Coming Evil, Journey to America, Remembrance, Good Night, Maman, Journey Home, Anne Frank and Me, Guests of War Trilogy: The Sky is Falling / Looking at the Moon / The Lights Go On Again, Who Comes with Cannons?, Hope's Crossing, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0395900123 |
Lisette Beaucaire was angry when her parents sent her away from Paris that September day in 1940. And although she knew that with the Nazis occupying the city she'd be safer at her Aunt Josephine's farm in the Dordogne valley, Lisette resented her "exile." She'd miss her friends and the excitement of...
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0689711301 |
It was 1938, and something terrible was happening in Germany. Suddenly, there were more and more restrictions for the Jews: yellow stars they had to wear, schools they could not attend, things they were forbidden to do. The Nazis were in power. And Lisa Platt was scared.
Her father knew they...
| Author | Theresa Breslin |
| ISBN | 0552547387 |
Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon, the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole village. From the horror of the trenches,...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0064409236 |
"Dearest Maman,
I keep all my letters to you in my notebook under my pillow. One day, when we're together again, I'll give them to you, and we'll sit and read them...."
In June 1940, twelve-year-old Karin Levi's world is torn apart as the German army occupies Paris. Karin, her older brother,...
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 0689716419 |
A Japanese-American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust,...
| Author | Cherie Bennett |
| ISBN | 0698119738 |
In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in German-occupied Paris during World War II. No more Internet...
Guests of War Trilogy: The Sky is Falling / Looking at the Moon / The Lights Go On Again
| Author | Kit Pearson |
| ISBN | 0140388419 |
Based on historical events, this moving fictional account of the adventures of two English children in a foreign land has become a favorite among Canadian children-this award-winning trilogy is now available in this omnibus edition.
This unforgettable trio of novels by award-winning...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688110282 |
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805089365 |
Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.
As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0449704556 |
Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Müller. Half-German and half-Irish, she's as beautiful as a movie star. But ever since their country, Ireland, went to war with Germany, they don't feel the same way. In fact, the girls now think there's something...
| Author | Jane Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0141303158 |
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر میکردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
| Author | Ida Vos |
| ISBN | 0395653681 |
Sigh...and the Summer Curse continues.
Even aside from the bland writing and unimpressive plot, it still would've been an okay story if Anna hadn't become so unlikeable by the end of it. The way she bullied that poor innocent boy, Stefan, was disgusting. And not much is said about it. This isn't...
| Author | Anne Isaacs |
| ISBN | 0590603647 |
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles...
| Author | Kathryn Winter |
| ISBN | 0439099048 |
In this semi-autobiographical novel, eight-year-old Katarina is bewildered by the hullabaloo surrounding her Jewish heritage in World War II at Slovakia. Raised by her unobservant aunt Lena, Katarina knows next to nothing about her supposed religion and heritage. In public school, she's a Jew....
| Author | Johanna Reiss |
| ISBN | 0064470423 |
Holland, 1945 - World War II has finally ended. For thirteen-year-old Annie de Leeuw and her sister Sini, almost three years of hiding from the Germans in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse have also ended. Saying good-bye to the courageous family who hid them is very difficult. And Annie finds that...
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1930900899 |
During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war.
"So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously.
...
The entire village knows Neima’s grandfather is a madman. For years the old man has prophesied that a great flood is coming, a flood disastrous enough to blot out the entire earth. He’s even built an enormous ark that he claims will allow his family to survive the deluge. But no one believes the ravings...
| Author | Malka Drucker |
| ISBN | 0440409659 |
this was kinda of a sad book because a lot of people died. the book is baised on a true story the main person,jacob,helped make the book. he lost his aunt hannah, a vary good friend who's name is yurek ,his mom, brother, and grandma. two vary brave people, alex and mela rosela, did the most dangrous thing you...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0141306009 |
When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a brutal work camp,...
| Author | Mirjam Pressler |
| ISBN | 0142402699 |
When the roundups start, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters-seven- year-old Malka and sixteen-year-old Minna-across the Hungarian border to safety, a place where they hope Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have imagined, with bleeding feet, bad weather,...
