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2) Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is the riveting and often chilling tale of a generation of young...
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the...
The resulting disaster was the largest man-made explosion until the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945. The blast...
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"Extraordinary." - Booklist | "A must-read." - School Library Journal | "Unforgettable." - Kirkus | "Gripping." - Foreword | "Excellent." - School Library Connection | "As timely...
A classic memoir that's gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling former National Ambassador of Books for Young People. A strong choice for summer reading—an engaging and powerful autobiographical exploration of growing up a so-called "bad boy" in Harlem in the 1940s.
As a boy, Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously—he
...In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that...
14) Night
In 1944, 15 year old Wiesel's village Sighet in Hungary was overtaken by Hitler's army. The jews in the village were deported to concentration camps, including young Wiesel and his family. NIGHT is his memoir of the year he spent in these camps. That he survived them is a miracle even he finds impossible to comprehend.
"A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation." —Vice
A young survivor tells her searing, visceral story of sexual assault, justice, and healing in this gutwrenching memoir.
The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those...
Foreword by Chuck Norris • “One of the most life-changing, family-changing, church-changing, and culture-changing books of this generation.”—Randy Alcorn, bestselling author of Heaven
Combating...
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