One Candle
10 best books like One Candle (Eve Bunting): Oskar and the Eight Blessings, The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis, Star of Fear, Star of Hope, Rose Blanche, These Hands, Laundry Day, All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah, A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
| Author | T.R. Simon |
| ISBN | 1596439491 |
A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home...
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
| Author | Karen Gray Ruelle |
| ISBN | 0823421597 |
When the Nazis occupied Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation.
Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet during that perilous time, many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place--the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but...
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0689838573 |
Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest...
| Author | Kim Ablon Whitney |
| ISBN | 0375852190 |
A heartbreaking novel based on the true story of a World War II voyage.
In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but...
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
| Author | Jo Hoestlandt |
| ISBN | 0802775888 |
Set in France, during the Nazi occupation of World War II, a gentile child named Helen recalls the mounting persecution of her Jewish friend. She wonders why does her best friend, Lydia, have to wear a yellow star? Why are people in hiding and using strange names? What is Lydia afraid of?
Touching...
| Author | Roberto Innocenti |
| ISBN | 1568461895 |
This is a horror story. Highly disturbing. Who the heck is this aimed at?!
It’s about the horrors of war/the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young (non-Jewish) German girl who doesn’t fully understand the situation of the war going on. She does see some suffering though and tries...
| Author | Margaret H. Mason |
| ISBN | 0547215665 |
Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched...
| Author | Maurie J. Manning |
| ISBN | 0547241968 |
In a picture book that blends realism and fantasy, a shoeshine boy is surprised when a piece of red silk falls from the sky. Trying to find its owner, he ventures up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the colorfully diverse people who live in the tenement....
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
The beloved characters from Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family return in this heartwarming picture book from a critically adored team--perfect for Hanukkah gift-giving!
Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins (A Greyhound, a Groundhog) and Caldecott Award-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0823409260 |
I read this story with my reading buddy and I really enjoyed how well it was able to capture Harriet Tubman's life in few pages. It had a lot of facts and information that could even be used for a biography project. The pictures were beautiful and they were a visual representation of what Tubman's life was...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0374309221 |
Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary
After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like most Dutch families, must patch their old worn clothing and go without everyday things like soap and milk. Then one spring morning when the...
Gershon was not always the best person he could be. True, the mistakes he made were common, ordinary things: a broken promise, a temper lost for no reason, a little untruth told here and there. But unlike most people, Gershon never regretted what he did. He never apologized or asked anyone's forgiveness....
| Author | Meg Wiviott |
| ISBN | 0822599295 |
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Laurie B. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0822587394 |
EDIT on 12/28: I changed this from 5 to 3 stars given that the 5 star rating was based partially on the assumption that this was a true story and some of it was also based on the post story "non-fction" material. It might be a 4 star book for me, even as a fictional book, but I read it as non-fiction (which I just...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1600604390 |
Irena Sendler, born to a Polish Catholic family, was raised to respect people of all backgrounds and to help those in need. She became a social worker; and after the German army occupied Poland during World War II, Irena knew she had to help the sick and starving Jews who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto....
Big Sister, Little Sister
| Author | LeUyen Pham |
| ISBN | 0786851821 |
This was LeUyen Pham's first book. She is the author as well as the illustrator. I think its brilliant that LeUyen dedicated this book to her big sister! This book is a celebration of sisterhood. The story is told from the little sister's perspective. If you have a big sister or a little sister you will get...
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 1570915474 |
4.5 stars. When Poland is invaded a boy is seperated from his family.
Like a length of kindling in one stroke, they split
He feels he knows his parents are dead. Happy memories keep him going, and his harmonica, a gift from his father he miraculously kept concealed. One night a guard hears...
I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II
| Author | Marisabina Russo |
| ISBN | 0375866957 |
What was it like to grow up Jewish in Italy during World War II? Sit with a little girl as her grandmother tells the story of her childhood in Rome, of being separated from her father, and of going into hiding in the mountains. Based on the experiences of the author's own family, this deeply moving book set...
| Author | Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren |
| ISBN | 1467711942 |
The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.
It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing...
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561452084 |
Without the yellow star to point them out, the Jews looked like any other Danes.
For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish pride. But during World War II, Nazis used the star to segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. Except in Denmark. When Nazi soldiers occupied his country, King...
| Author | Ruth Vander Zee |
| ISBN | 1568461763 |
Although a picture book in form and shape, Erika’s Story is not for preschoolers. Innocenti’s famous photographic-style paintings in largely sepia tones (except a pink blanket wrapped baby thrown from a train) intensify the austerity of the tale. One of his previously published books, Rose...
