Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

Reducere. "A superlative memoir of survival....Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide."--Daily Telegraph (Lon...

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of t...

The memoir of a young Jewish seamstress who survived Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Franci's daughter, the Holocaust historian Helen Epstein...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2018 A gripping adventure story and a rich resource for history lovers When 14-year-old Floren...

The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tom ClavinNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 167 x 245 x 30Cover type: Hardba...

Acclaimed naval historian Don Keith tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neos...

Reducere. Stories of Elke McKee's WWII German soldier father who was captured and spent ten years as a Russian prisoner, his impression of the kind Russian p...

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a yo...

In the late summer and early autumn of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother and best friend, Miriam, must navigate the incr...

"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, " Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we ...

Reducere. An inspiring true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular by Mona Golabek's acc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean SassonThis is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait dur...

An international bestseller, Prisoner of Tehran is the astonishing, true account of one womans remarkable courage in the face of terror.Publisher: ...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

Reducere. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. But when Hitler's armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa'...

Reducere. From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction In April 1992, a handful of young...

Reducere. Description"A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable." --J.K. Rowlin...

Reducere. A riveting WWII account of survival at sea--Book 4 in the middle grade True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times...

On October 21, 1966, thousands of tons of coal mining waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass c...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helples...

The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster UnbrokenA modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My...

Reducere. Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mi...

Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war--for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true pers...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late summer and early fall of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother, and best friend, Miriam, must navigat...

Reducere. A canine version of Unbroken.--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air with Terry Gross NO BETTER FRIEND tells the story of Air Force technician Frank Williams...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helpless as...

Reducere. A compelling novel based on a remarkable true story in World War II.In the early dawn hours of September 8, 1939, ten-year-old Dina Frydman sits at...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

Soon to be a film: Girl Who Fell from the Sky, starring Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner. The amazing true story of the sole survivor of a plane cras...

Reducere. AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning h...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Jenni L. WalshNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x...

Reducere. In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pu...

Everyone has heard of Winnie-the-Pooh, but not everyone knows about the real Canadian bear who lent him her name. Find out all about how she travel...

Reducere. Thomas L. Stewart joined the United States Marine Corps on June 22, 1917--just two months after America entered World War One. Private Stewart was ...

The miraculous story of the Walkers, six siblings who survived Blitz, battle and internment and whose incredible experiences tell a new social hist...

The gripping, shocking and true story of a Bosniak family's flight from their home at the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia. Hasan Nuhanovic was...