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The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis

5 best books like The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis (Kim Ablon Whitney): The Upstairs Room, The Boy Who Dared, Once, The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way, In Grandma's Attic

The Upstairs Room
AuthorJohanna Reiss
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten...
The Boy Who Dared
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0439680131
A youth in Nazi Germany tells the truth about Hitler.

Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a full novel.

When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany...
Once
AuthorMorris Gleitzman
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.

Once I escaped...
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0385468148
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...
In Grandma's Attic
AuthorArleta Richardson
ISBN0781432685
Pieces of Magic

Remember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an ancient...
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