Matas, Carol

After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.

A young Jewish girl living in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948 is given a diary by her foster father so she can write down what happen to her in Poland during the Holocaust.

After recovering from a near-fatal illness, fifteen-year-old Jade discovers she is psychic, begins losing friends because she is different, and struggles with her knowledge of a terrible future event that she may not be able to prevent.

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.

Ros, widowed when her policeman husband is murdered, moves with her baby back to her parents' home in Palm Springs, but the violence seems to follow her, and she soon begins to wonder whether a series of strange dreams in which she is a member of a Jewish family during the Spanish Inquisition could hold clues to what is going on in her life.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father's new wife.

An historical fiction depicting the World War II diary of a young Jewish girl whose family is attempting to flee Nazi-occupied Europe for Canada in the early days of the war.

Rosie's dad moves the family to Los Angeles where he plans to go into the business of filming Westerns, but things start to go wrong when Rosie causes an accident that disables their trick rider, and the rider's son Zach, a thoroughly irritating boy, comes to take his father's place.

Unable to make friends at her new school, Rosie learns that one of Chicago's baseball teams has lost its top player and disguises herself as a boy to take his place.