![]() She tracks down her Irish ancestors and travels the road to unraveling their past, culling out the fiction from the facts, honoring the sacrifices they made, uncovering mysteries, and reconstructing family skeletons. ![]() Lexile: 700 The Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir by Yehuda Nir Lexile: 920 Readers follow Giff as she tries to uncover information about the paternal grandmother whom she never knew. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?ģ Don’t Tell The Girls: A Family Memoir by Patricia Reilly Giff A scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. As the diary ends, she has become used to constant bombing and snipers severe shortages of food, water, and gas and the end of a privileged adolescence in her native Sarajevo. When she began it, she was 11 years old, concerned mostly with friends, school, piano lessons, MTV, and Madonna. ![]() Collection One We All Need Somebody To Lean OnĢ Night by Elie Wiesel Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevoīy Zlata Filopovic Lexile: 850 Night by Elie Wiesel Lexile: 570 From September 1991 through October 1993, young Zlata Filipovic kept a diary. ![]()
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