John Boyne
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
Author
Series
Boy in the striped pyjamas volume 2
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away,...
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful than him. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter entirely. Once...
Author
Publisher
Other Press (NY)
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
“A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name." —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name
A new edition of the beloved novel most similar thematically to the author’s mega-bestseller The Heart’s Invisible Furies
It is September 1919, and twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister...
A new edition of the beloved novel most similar thematically to the author’s mega-bestseller The Heart’s Invisible Furies
It is September 1919, and twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Four years after his father left for World War I and never returned, Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he learns that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
September, 1919, Tristan Sadler takes the train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. Once there, he unburdens himself of the memories, the horrific details, the senselessness of war, and the intensity of their friendship. [From publisher's description]
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at ClonliffeSeminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good." Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the...
14) Next of kin
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
After learning he has been cut out of his wealthy uncle's will, Owen Montignac takes drastic measures to pay off a gambling debt and finds himself pulled into the scandals of England's royal family.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Pierrot is quickly taken under Hitler's wing and thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Born with an ability to float in the air, Barnaby Brocket is entreated by his parents to hide his unusual trait until a fateful day when he finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world and into outer space.