Hidden Yellow Stars, by Rebecca Connolly, tells the story of two women who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo during WWII.
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Uprising, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, follows a young Polish girl as she participates in the Warsaw city uprising during WWII.
Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas spans 500 years and tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family.
A young Jewish girl finds a way to learn even when she can’t go to school in Rivka’s Presents, by Laurie Wallmark and Adelina Lirius.
A Ukrainian girl and her family experience the highs and lows of immigration to America in A Sky Full of Song, by Susan Lynn Meyer.
Ruth Behar’s Letters From Cuba follows a young Jewish girl who trades life in Poland for life in Cuba on the eve of World War II.
Two girls bond over South Asian cooking in Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan’s excellent A Place at the Table.
Like many of her other books, the idea for How I Became a Spy was born out of one of Deborah Hopkinson’s earlier projects.