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Eva Underground

Dandi Daley Mackall

In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

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Hitler Invades Poland

John Malam

Relates how Adolf Hitler's determination to succeed helped him to overcome such obstacles as a poor education and become dictator of Germany.

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If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.

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Maus Ii

Art Spiegelman

In part two of Maus, Spiegelman continues his Holocaust memoir in a cartoon format.

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Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity

Naomi Pasachoff

Examines the life of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded.

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If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.

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Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

Captures the hardships and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II, through the eyes of a Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive uni

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Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

A young Polish orphan, called names for being Jewish, dreams of the day when he too could become a Nazi in shining boots, until the day he witnesses something that changes his mind forever.

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The Painted Bird

Jerzy N. Kosinski

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders though Eastern Europe.

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Madame Curie

Eve Curie

A biography by Marie Curie's daughter describing the life and achievements and the character of the famous woman scientist.

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