personal narratives

A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Presents the words of young people between the ages of eleven and eighteen in which they share what it is like to live in the midst of the upheaval and violence of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.

A collection of two hundred letters which were written to Mrs. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1941 by children who were asking her to help them receive material assistance during the Great Depression.

An account of World War II in Germany as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

The author describes her experiences as a Jewish child living in hiding with a Dutch family in Amsterdam during World War II. Additional text and illustrations include further details of the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the fate of those that survived.

Collection of paintings and text illustrating the author's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, including quotations from gravestones in a memorial Holocaust cemetery in Budapest.

Through passages written by Union and Confederate soldiers, along with photographs and textual commentary, presents the stories of the everyday lives of those who participated in America's Civil War.

Presents the stories of six people from different parts of the world whose childhoods were shaped by their experiences during World War II. Includes black and white photographs of various sites and people.