Kathy Kacer
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt - a German who risked his life to protect Jews from the Nazis."--
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number...