World+War+II+and+the+Holocaust

Free Choice Reading, Quarter 4
Humanities 10

Books with an Anti-War Theme

 * -->Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. 1961.
 * Kerr, M. E. Slap Your Sides. 2001.
 * L’Engle, Madeleine. A Swiftly Tilting Planet. 1978.
 * Nye, Naomi Shihab Habibi. 1997.
 * -->Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. 1969.
 * Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, 2007.

Memoirs

 * Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem, by Solly Ganor, 2003.
 * -->If This be a Man by Primo Levi, 1991 (You may have to purchase it a paperback that also contains his story called “The Truce”)
 * I am a star: child of the Holocaust, 1993
 * Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl
 * No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel, 1998.
 * Maus by Art Spiegelman (I, II, or III)

Fiction

 * Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, 2005.
 * Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Mirjam Pressler, 2007.
 * -->Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion and Betrayal by Mal Peet, 2007.

Non-Fiction

 * -->Hiroshima by John Hersey, 1989.