Marisabina Russo
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia is so big that she is always last in line at school and none of the other students will play with her, but a special new classmate teaches her that size is not always the most important thing.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Here's the perfect bedtime read-aloud for the very youngest child. Filled with fun noises--click clack, click clack--and a repeating refrain--good night, good night, sleep tight--this story is sure to have kids chiming in as they follow the antics of these bunnies who won't stay in bed. Kids will identify with these mischievous bunnies and their desire to play--while parents will empathize with Mama and Daddy's struggle to get them to SLEEP. --Publisher...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust. Rachel's Oma (her grandmother) has two picture albums. In one the photographs show only happy times -- from after World War II, when she and her daughters had come to America. But the other album includes much sadder times from before -- when their life in Germany was destroyed by the...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandmother tells her granddaughter the story of the charm bracelet that represents her own childhood experiences while she and her family tried to evade the Nazis in Italy during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young...