Doris Orgel

David Chotjewitz

Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.

And the Good Nazi

Daniel Half Human

Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS officer--until now. Hitler and Nazism are infiltrating Vienna, Austria, in 1938 and suddenly it is forbidden for the girls to continue seeing each other. Despite the danger, Inge and Liselotte struggle to keep their friendship alive. But will they be able to do it? A new afterword by the author, who based the story on her own experiences during World War II, is included. According to "Publishers Weekly," The Devil in Vienna "arouses in its readers anguish, fury, admiration, scorn--it couldn't be a more effective story or a more powerful illustration of the reason 'never to forget.'" This courageous novel is an ALA Notable Book and winner of the Sydney Taylor Award and the Golden Kite Award.

The Devil in Vienna

Inge, a Jewish girl, and Lieselotte, the daughter of a Nazi, have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

A beloved Sendak title finally available again to a new generation of children.

Sarah's Room

Chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of a young pop music star in Germany, as well as the relationships she builds and destroys along the way.

Crazy Diamond

Inge Dornenwald and Lieselotte Vessely are best friends who met when they started school. This is a partly autobiographical story of two girls growing up in Vienna during the Third Reich, one Jewish and one in the Hitler Youth, and how they struggle to keep their friendship alive.

Merry, Rose, and Christmas-Tree June

A young girl's wish for a special friend comes true when a new family moves in next door.

Next Door to Xanadu

Next-Door Neighbors

The funniest things occur in the month of Fibruary--fish go peopling, snow turns to ice cream, and babies are delivered by rocket.

Merry Merry Fibruary

Shrimp must decide whether to befriend the new boy in his neighborhood, who is a Croatian American, or to join the kids who make fun of his name and his accent.

Don't Call Me Slob-O

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Next Time I Will: An Old English Tale

Enter the maze of myth, where a young girl awakens to the mystery of love -- and learns its price. Daughter of the tyrant Minos of Crete, half sister to the savage Minotaur, Ariadne is only beginning to dream of a love that will transform her. Then the young hero Theseus, handsome prince of Athens and her father's prisoner, arrives, and Ariadne is ready to defy her father to prevent his death. Fleeing with him, she leaves behind all she holds dear -- and finds danger, betrayal, and finally, happiness. Intimate yet breathtaking portraiture reveals the ageless human drama at the heart of the ancient myth of Theseus, the Minotaur -- and Ariadne. (YA)

Ariadne, Awake!

For a while the kitten she finds keeps Kim from envying everything her older sister has or does.

Bartholomew, We Love You!

Eight-year-old Rebecca, whose divorced mother is a doctor, has ongoing war with her babysitter, Mrs. Galloway, until one day the two reach an unexpected truce.

My War with Mrs. Galloway

When her beloved cat Whiskers dies, Rebecca finds it difficult at first to vent her anger and accept her mother's comfort.

Whiskers, Once and Always

Maurice Sendak

Jenny dreams of the day when she will be allowed to play with the treasures in her older sister's room.

An eleven-year-old girl slowly realizes that Grandmother Liza is not just sick, but dying.

The Mulberry Music

Two crows, one big and one small, count things they see from one to ten and then back down again.

Two Crows Counting

Zanna seeks a drug-induced solace after her father dies, and when she and her mother move to New York to start over and Zanna meets a handsome musician, her drug use only intensifies.

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