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41) Hotel Cuba
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback. At first, life in...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Labeled outcasts by their Ethiopian neighbors because of their Jewish faith, Wudita and her family make the arduous trek on foot to Sudan in the hope of the promise of a better life. Instead, they are herded into a squalid refugee camp. Wudita becomes separated from her family and forced back to the Ethiopian border.
43) Adam & Thomas
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II, take refuge in the forest where they learn to forage and survive, soon meeting and helping other fugitives fleeing for their lives.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
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