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English
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When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
4) Fear itself
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tense and uncertain years before the Second World War, Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new pro-Nazi German-American organization known as the Bund which is conspiring to sabotage American efforts against Adolf Hitler. But as he penetrates the heart of the Bund, it becomes clear that something far more sinister is at work - something that seems to lead directly to the White House.
11) The summer war
Author
Publisher
F. Warne
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While at a summer camp in the Adirondacks, fourteen-year-old Ely's discovery of a buried skeleton uncovers the hatred that had swirled around German-Americans during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having reluctantly parted with their treasured Christmas ornaments, members of a German immigrant family awake on Christmas morning to find miraculous replacements spun by spiders.
13) Send for me
Author
Language
English
Description
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her...
14) Different days
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany. But in Los Angeles, no-nonsense secretary Liesl Weiss has concerns much closer to home. The Great Depression is tightening its grip and Liesl is the sole supporter of two children, an opinionated mother, and a troubled brother. Leon Lewis is a Jewish lawyer who has watched Adolf Hitler's rise to power--and the increase in anti-Semitism in America--with...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
723 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright."
17) The two brothers
Author
Series
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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