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43) For such a time
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In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin is saved from a firing squad only to be pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt. In order to survive as Aric's secretary, "Stella" must stand by as her people are sent to Auschwitz. When she cautiously appeals to him on their behalf, Aric's compassion gives her hope. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this ...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate with dead people, including her grandmother who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father.
46) New boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black man is witness to the persecution of another student with bad acne.
48) Moose Street
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Eleven-year-old Lena Rosen, the only Jewish child on Moose Street, sees life as an insider and as an outsider.
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"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
53) Extraordinary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Phoebe, a member of the wealthy Rothschilds family, befriends Mallory, an awkward new girl in school, and the two become as close as sisters, but Phoebe does not know that Mallory is a faerie, sent to the human world to trap the ordinary human girl into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor Mayer to the queen of the faeries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Orphan monster spy series volume 2
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"Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her journey through Central Africa reveals the ravages of colonialism and exposes darker truths about her own allies than Sarah could've ever imagined"--