Europe

Europe

	I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS by Livia Bitton-Jackson The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
	THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne 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.
	ZLATA’S DIARY by Zlata Filipovic When Zlata's Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovi´c becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor's cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.
	THE ENDLESS STEPPE by Esther Hautzig During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
	WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Judith Kerr. Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to Europe.
	SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE by Yoko Kawashima Watkins A fictionalized autobiography in which eight-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
	AFTER THE TRAIN by Gloria Whelan Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.