1. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is an excellent novel. It takes place during WWII, when the holocaust was occurring. The main character (Corrie Ten Boom) and her sister and father risk their own lives and the lives of others to attempt to save as many Jewish souls as possible when the Germans invade their own country. Unfortunately for them, they are caught (but the Nazis never find the hidden room with five Jews in it), and sent to a prison. Corrie is separated from her family, and is deeply worried about heir health, along with her own. Then, her prison is emptied, and she is forced to live in a work labor camp. She struggles to survive the harsh conditions, and keeps her soul alive.
2. I Have Live a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson is a great story about a Jewish survivor of the holocaust. In this story, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl is forced to give up everything she has because of her religion. When she enters Auschwitz concentration camp, she is separated from her father and brother, and is forced to choose between her aunt and mother to stay alive with her in the camp. Together they keep each other strong and sane.
3. The Devil’s Arithmetic is a book I have recently read by Jane Yolen. It is about a present day Jewish girl who gets very bored of hearing her relatives talk about their experiences in the holocaust. During a special ceremonial task, she is somehow taken back to the past. She is forced to work against her will in a concentration camp, and now understands her relatives’ agony. Now all she needs to do is somehow find her way home.
4. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is the first poetic book I’ve read, and it was spectacular. It takes place in the city of Lodz, Poland, 1939, when the Germans invaded it and forced the entire Jewish population into a small part of the city called the ghetto. At the beginning of the war, 270,000 people lived there. At the end of the war, only 800 survived. Of those 800, only 12 were children; this is the story of on of those children named Syvia Perlmutter.

5. Deep and Dark and Dangerous is a bone-chilling novel by Mary Downing Hahn. This book is an eerie and suspenseful book that keeps you wanting more. In this book, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph of her mom, aunt, and someone else she doesn’t recognize. When she asks her mom who the person is, she trembles in fear and rips it up immediately. When Ali learns she is spending the summer in the same house her aunt and mom grew up in, she decides she will try to learn who the mystery person is. Then she meets a very bratty girl named Sissy who she despises. Little does she know Sissy holds the secret behind the picture.
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great novel that can teach a great life lesson. It takes place in the Maycomb, Alabama. It takes place when racial tension is at an all time high. When a black man is accused of doing something, the town is divided. Not many people take the man’s side, for they think of him as a minority. The lawyer who’s defending the man has two children that don’t really know the meaning of equality. With the court case nearing, the children learn a life lesson about where equality can get you.