The Diary of a Young Girl
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Holocaust
Auschwitz: A new History by Laurence Rees. 7-10th grade readability. I read this book last year, and found it very insightful.
How about Schindlers List by Thomas Keneally read the book but watched the film again a few weeks ago.
The Book Thief is another good one. 
The Book Thief is really good!
The Book Thief is perfect for that age, and fantastic for discussion. It would be an excellent choice for you!
Book Thief!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm reading it in a book club in my class right now and it's really good!
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
What did you choose?
Karen wrote: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne"Thats a really good book and movie.
Number the Stars was my favorite growing up.
Misty wrote: "Karen wrote: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne"Thats a really good book and movie."
Its a lie!
Why not read Night by Elie Wiesel, I know I'm having my 7th grade class read it
Pamela wrote: "Misty wrote: "Karen wrote: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne"Thats a really good book and movie."
Its a lie!
Why not read Night by Elie Wiesel, I know I'm having my 7th grade cla..."
Thanks- I haven't read it in awhile, I'll go back and refresh my memory.
Denise wrote: "The Devil's Arithmetic or Sarah's KeyorNumber the Stars"Denise wrote: "The Devil's Arithmetic or Sarah's KeyorNumber the Stars"
Just finished The Devil's Arithmetic- great choice. Sarah's Key too mature for this group.Thanks
Life is Beautiful was a good movie. Don't know that there is a book. Diary of Anne Frank is good. And the others that people have posted looks good.
Rhoda wrote: "Denise wrote: "The Devil's Arithmetic or Sarah's KeyorNumber the Stars"Denise wrote: "The Devil's Arithmetic or Sarah's Keyor[bo..."
Welcome, glad I could help
if you can find, you could use When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - its about a family escapingi totally second Number the Stars and the Book Thief...Eva Abbotson has some books more focused towards teenage girls which might work for some of your older students...
Karen wrote: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne"Is that the book the movie was based on? Very sad...
Probably. These kind of films always get right to my heart.
I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart." — Anne Frank..
sometimes i believe in it too.
Has anyone read Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow, also takes place during the Holocaust?
holy crap! the book theif was the best book i've ever read! i was sitting in french one day and i almost started crying because of the way it ends! I would've felt really dorky though so i looked up until the tears left. I have never felt that way while reading a book (other than the book of mormon and the bible)
Anne Frank is one of my Favorite books.
As much as I loved The Book Thief, I have to contest the nomination. It's not a Holocaust book. The main focus of the book are the Germans living under Nazi rule. It's an important and excellent topic in its own right, but any addressing of the book to the Holocaust is, in my view, tangential.My recommendations would also include Night, Schindler's List (which isn't terribly gruesome; I read it in sixth or seventh grade myself, and thought it mild) and very much so Primo Levi's If This Is a Man / The Truce, which is difficult, but exceptionally good.
My familiarity with Holocaust literature in English is, sadly, limited, as I've done most of my Holocaust reading in Hebrew and Russian, but offhand I know these books are English language ones, and good. I'd also look into finding whether you can get Anatoly Rybakov's Heavy Sand and I Never Saw Another Butterfly which presents the drawings and poems written by teenagers and children in Theresin.
Genia wrote: "As much as I loved The Book Thief, I have to contest the nomination. It's not a Holocaust book. The main focus of the book are the Germans living under Nazi rule. It's an important and excellent to..."But the book theif was from a young girl's point of view. It showed her suffering in full even if it didn't portray the ultimate suffering of the world. Did you read the ending? I balled!
Of course. I thought it was very touching. but the Holocaust is not synonymous with "suffering of people during WWII". It is a specific event, which The Book Thief describes only in a very minor fashion.If you're looking for a book on suffering as experienced by a young person, then your field is much further expanded than merely Holocaust novels. But it is important - in fact, part of the reason for reading Holocaust novels at all - to differentiate between the random suffering of people during war and the purposeful event that the Holocaust was. The Book Thief is a damn good book, it explores the topic of human suffering and deals with serious issues. it's an important read in its own right. But it is not a Holocaust novel.
While I enjoyed the Book thief i have to agree with Genia...if anything, parts of it pissed me off, because you could see that the German people knew about the camps and did nothing...there is even one scene that specifically highlights that...it was almost like he tried to make the German's look innocent...but YMMV
Rhoda wrote: "HiI'm looking for a Holocaust themed book (readability grades 8/9) which will be good for a classroom Book Club.Any suggestions?"
I see this is an old post, but I highly recommend ALAN AND NAOMI. Naomi is a teenage Holocaust survivor and orphan sent to live with relatives in America. Her cousin Alan, who is close to her age, is given the job of acclimating her to school. Scarred as she is, Alan manages to do it. But there's an anti-Semitic bully in the school who undoes everything. It's like a replay of the Holocaust on the small scale of a school - excellent for teenagers.
Genia wrote: "Of course. I thought it was very touching. but the Holocaust is not synonymous with "suffering of people during WWII". It is a specific event, which The Book Thief describes only in a very minor fa..."OK i guess you're right. Still a great book for WWII though
Mila 18 by Leon Uris is a great story about a terrible subject....The Final Solution.
looks intense. What's the "terrible subject"? (assuming its not the hollocaust)
the final solution was the true name for the holocaust...that is what as on the limited recovered documentation about the plans to exterminate the jews etc...
I repeat myself: sounds intense
Kressel wrote: "Rhoda wrote: I have never heard of this book, I'll look into it, thanks for your suggestion.I'm looking for a Holocaust themed book (readability grades 8/9) which will be good for a classroom Book Club.Any suggestions?"
I see this is an old post, but I highly recommen..."
Natalie wrote: "holy crap! the book theif was the best book i've ever read! i was sitting in french one day and i almost started crying because of the way it ends! I would've felt really dorky though so i looked u..."i loved that book as well! I would highly recommend that book though it is a little long for 8/9 graders.
Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "the final solution was the true name for the holocaust...that is what as on the limited recovered documentation about the plans to exterminate the jews etc..."That's not precise. The Holocaust, or Shoah, includes all stages of the German program to deal with the Jews even before the Wannsee Conference, where the plans for the Final Solution were laid out. For instance, the exile into ghettos and the consequences thereof are part of the Holocaust while not being part of the Final Solution plans.
As for Leon Uris's Mila 18, the book is about the Warsaw ghetto Uprising, rather than "The Final Solution" as a whole. The ghetto uprising is a fascinating piece of WWII and Holocaust history, in which on Passover 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto, slotted for extermination in Treblinka, revolted and, for over a month or so, resisted against the forces of the German army.
Uris, who served in the Pacific during WWII, felt it natural, I suppose, to write about an uprising.
Megan wrote: "Natalie wrote: "holy crap! the book theif was the best book i've ever read! i was sitting in french one day and i almost started crying because of the way it ends! I would've felt really dorky thou..."yeah its a little long but you just have to read it chapter by chapter. i read it when i was in 9th grade and my friend read it in 7th
Definitely Night by Elie Wiesel!
I loved this book. I am always very interested in reading about the Holocaust.Night is also one of my favorite books, i reccomend you also read it.
"Night" by Elie Wiesel is a terrific book, and should be perfect.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: If you want to skip over some of the Anne talking about her becoming a woman, for my class isn't mature enough to handle it, you could always read the play version!
Any book by Leon Uris which is set during WW2. Exodus, Mila 18 and QB VII were ones that a stick in my mind.
Sophie's Choice is a gut-wrenching book. It was made into a movie with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.
Depending on the age of the class Number the Stars; Upstairs Eoom by Johanne Reiss; I am Rosemarie by M. Moskin
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a complete work covering the raise of Adolph Hitler and his National Socialists Party and finally ending at the end of World War II. The Final Solution and the creation and workings of the many concentration camps as well as the deportation, incarnation and extermination of millions of Jews, Gypsies, Russians and political dissidents are covered in this book. These subjects are covered extensively but make up just a fraction of the entire work. Although it shows these acts in relation to a whole, it is coldly factual and doesn’t relate the acts on an individual and personal level. The reader is easily anesthetized by the numbers, blinding him/her from the detailed horrors. I wouldn’t recommend this book for everyone as it is coldly factual and only interesting to a history lover.
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I'm looking for a Holocaust themed book (readability grades 8/9) which will be good for a classroom Book Club.Any suggestions?