Decades apart, two young women deal with WWII and its aftermath in The Rebel Girls of Rome, by Jordyn Taylor.
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Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
Learn how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired a White House tradition in Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, by Richard Michelson and E.B. Lewis.
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library.
Holocaust survivor and renowned psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger shares her harrowing experiences in The Ballerina of Auschwitz.
Witness the rise of Hitler’s Germany through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy in Rise of the Spider, the first book in a new series by Michael P. Spradlin.
Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away follows Anne Frank’s life from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands until the Frank family was forced into hiding.
A teen learns about her grandmother’s life in Nazi-occupied holland while doing research for a school project in Code Name Kingfisher, by Liz Kessler.
A Jewish girl finds herself hiding in a French Catholic boarding school during WWII in The Night War, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
Hidden Yellow Stars, by Rebecca Connolly, tells the story of two women who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo during WWII.