germany

Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century German composer Johannes Brahms, describing his musical childhood, his struggle for success, and the conflict between those, such as Brahms, who favored musical tradition and those, including Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, who favored new directions.

A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.

The author relates her experiences from 1941-1953 as she struggles to survive as a Russian teenager caught up in all the horrors of World War II and its aftermath.

In 1918 Berlin, Germany, sixteen-year-old Moritz struggles to do what is right on his newspaper job, in his relationship with his mother and sister who are outspoken socialists, and with his brother, who returns from the war physically and emotionally scarred.

Provides an account of Anne Frank and her family based on letters and photographs the Franks sent to father Otto's mother Alice, and passed down to her grandson, Buddy.

During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.

In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.

A biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the two eighteenth-century brothers who collected the fairy tales and legends of the German people.

Describes the history of aerial bombing from the beginning of flight through the great campaigns of World War II.

Thirteen-year-old Victor keeps a journal about the mysterious letters that began arriving on his birthday, his fear of the high diving board, confusion over his divorced parents' relationship, and an assertive girl he calls D.